After returning on Thursday from the World Championship, I rested one day. On Saturday, I went to the Throwers Meet in Winston-Salem. Strangely, I recorded some personal bests, Hammer Throw, Discus Throw and Weight Throw. Did not do too well in the Javelin and the Shot Put but was not unhappy with the Super Weight. [...]
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Now, the last three days have been typical for my Spring fun. On Sundays, a total of 4 miles with the real work being 9 x 1 minute lactate stackers. ? You run 1 minute, rest 1 minute, run 1 minute. Mine go like this: 1 minute slight uphill at 1500 m pace, 1 minute [...]
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Happy New Year to everybody. We spent New Year’s eve in the ‘new’ house in the NC mountains, the Bargain House in Traphill, North Carolina. Well, there is a little traveled road up there. It starts in Traphill and climbs 2.5 miles to the entry of the Stone Mountain State Park. I made this stretch [...]
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Went to the basement and attacked some iron: time to get out the card game, 39 cards = 39 exercises. The last three? The second king asked for 14 box squats with 225 lbs., the third 8 asked for 8 snatches with the 28 kg kettle bell and the third king asked for 14 partial [...]
Information overkill! For the last week or two, I sorted my data for the planning of my athletic year, hopefully culminating in a good placing in the decathlon at the US Masters Decathlon Nationals, US Nationals, the Masters World Championships and Ultra Decathlon World Championships. The gym work has been completed a while ago. I’m [...]
It has been a while. The meniscus surgery went well and I’m back in training for a few weeks already. Still, the progression with my running training is slow, to say the least. Last week, I ran two back to back days up a steep 2.5 miles to Stone Mountain State Park in Wilkes County, [...]
Hurricane Earl will be gone by tomorrow, so I hope. Flying into Puerto Rico should not be problematic and flying on to Mayaguez should be possible, so I hope. Ken Stone published the list of entrants on masterstrack.com. I noticed Rex Harvey competing in the pentathlon and very much look forward meeting him. I’ve never [...]
Yesterday was my first attempt at running after a week of pain in the (right) knee. After 200 m I was about to give up… but went for 4 to 5 miles instead. And paid dearly for it with a restless night, constantly waking up with a stabbing pain in the knee. I decided to [...]
Well, Monday did not work out as planned. The noon workout never happened since work got in the way. And the evening gym work needed to be postponed as well. Tuesday was a different story. We had a good morning session on the track. Late afternoon, the gym work went well with box squats and [...]
Last week was tough, to say the least. Four mornings found me at the track @ 600 AM and coach Fuller had me work hard. 10 x 100 m with short rests, 4 x 150 m with short rests and so on. At work I re-designed the website I had been working on for weeks. [...]