I'll be working overtime.

Sun, 5/26-To punish myself for yesterday's show of horrors, I went to the track for a workout. Russian intervals. As designed for a high school 2:00 800m runner, Russian intervals consist of 5x(3x300m @ 48 w/jog 100m at 30-sec) with an 800m jog between sets. My plan was to do "modified" Russian intervals: 5x(2x300m @ 48 w/60 sec rest (30 sec walk + 30 sec jog) with an 800m jog between sets. 

Actual: I wound up walk 100m for a rest of between 80 and 90 sec...and my jog between sets was 900m (6:45). And I could manage only three sets.

My runs:
48/47
48/48
48/47

Sat, 5/25-

Competed at the Garden State Twilight  meet in Edison, NJ. I had never competed at this meet, which wound up being an eye-opener. There were a few events with many competitors and some with just a few. Whichever the case, the times were generally amazing (https://results.lexicontiming.com/meets/2223/events). How about 10.55 winning the men's 100m, with everyone else who made it to the finals running under 11 seconds? How about the winner of the women's 100 at 12.05, a time I'd kill for right now? What about 20.81 winning the men's 200? The same guy won the 400 in 46.28, with five other men under 48 seconds! And how about 16 of 26 competitors under 2:00 in the 800? And pro Ce'Aira Brown's effort of 2:01.54, with the great Robbie Andrews watching.

At any rate, this small-scale meet was big-time. 

I had a good warmup for my 100, taking a few laps with 50s teammate Jacques Lucien. After stretching and doing a few starts, I felt pretty good. In fact, I imagined I'd run in the 12.2-range, which was in the neighborhood of my seed time. In the final heat in lane 7, I found myself with no pop, no fizzle. I got smoked. Then again, the heats were preliminary and were seeded with a distribution of times. My 12.74 was perhaps my worst 100m season opener.  A couple hours later at 9:30, I'd run the 200 from lane 2. At least there was a masters runner to my outside in lane 3. Even so, I could not catch him. I felt better in the 200 than in the 100. So, I was disappointed when my time read 25.89.  

Jacques ran well in both events (12.66, 26.10), and Phil Reilly (4:53.56) had a very nice mile.

I have so much work to do that I'll be working overtime.