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October 21, 2004
400 relays w/the team
well today we went out to college of marin--we shared the field with the football team..and the track with a few pre-season college tracksters...
we had 8 teams of 2 . 4 boys teams, 4 girls teams. I'm not sure where so many people were today at practice...i think some kids are really overbooked, overworked, overtired at this point in the year---
i decided to help fill a team...i ran the mile warm up with the kids. then i ran 4 striders with the group it was funny...b/c i was thinking after the striders....gees i never run my strides this fast...and almost immediately after i thought that one of my track runners (who i talked into running xc) came up to me and said...gosh we run these so much faster in track--these seem slow. in only my own liz centric...29 year perspective...i thought..Wowzers...i can't imagine personally going much faster on a strider...! :)
it was a good thing though (to see another perspective).
my partner was running between 87 and 90 for all of her 400s...so that was my rest interval...by the middle of the workout....each runner ran 6 x 400...the order & positioning of runners was such that....by the last 100 m i'd catch a big pack of runners... i like coming from behind...so that was fun...my splits: 1:25, 1:22, 1:23, 1:21, 1:20, 1:21....
i felt really good aerobically... my legs were a bit tired coming into the workout ...from my two runs yesterday...but all in all...i think running with the students this week...not worrying about my times...just effort and just focusing on making running even more fun...has really helped me get back on "track" so to speak...
i had a few extra minutes after lunch today...so i read via my quote book...and these were the ones that i kept thinking about while i was cruising via my 400 workout with the kids... i love "the earthly chance" one!!! :)
"Never really give in as long as you have an earthly chance." Alf Shrubb
"The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiently; who know the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spedn themselves in a worthy cause; who at their best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt.
More later
Posted by liz at October 21, 2004 05:10 PM
Comments
Hi Liz... Your strategy this week sounds great! Just to enjoy running and take it as it comes without a prescribed program. In one of my classes today we were talking about the notion of play and how as adults we rarely enter into that realm. We are so caught up in "workout out" and "being productive" that we loose sight of being active and really being engaged, laughing, and raising our spirits. Do you remember in middle school when we used to play badmitten after school? How could you forget? You were the badmitten champ? I remember how much FUN we had staying after every single day the entire winter season, without even thinking about it as exercise. I think you have a lot of fun when you run with your athletes on the trails and have fun workouts with them. It encourages a healthy and fun perspective to sports and athletics which should promote life long learning. I love the quote.. never give in while you have an earthly chance. It takes away the mythic idea that you have to be a hero to keep fighting. Aren't we all capable of pushing a little more, of reaching a little higher. It does not take a miracle to extend yourself. Thanks for the update! Good strides,
Posted by: Mary at October 21, 2004 08:48 PM
Liz, your speed amazes me! I don't think that I could be running 81 and 82 second quarters even with lots of rest. My butt would be killing me for days!
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at October 23, 2004 11:02 AM