Day 13: Speed Endurance

The above is a shot of the sky taken from the stadium as I was lying down doing my earlier body conditioning. With my trusted iPod, lovely tunes playing, I was having fun doing my workout

It was so peaceful, the open air, nobody around disturbing or gawking at me. The stadium where I trained is like a ‘white elephant’. Nobody ever uses it. I’ve trained here my whole life, more than a decade

I’ve seen people come and go, few familiar faces who are as hardcore as me. But most of the time, I’m alone with my thoughts during training and that can be really calming. We’re often surrounded by deadlines, stress, work, commitments and such. That’s why I think working out is ideal to get away from all of that

Plyometrics

• Skipped due to knee twitch

Speed Endurance: Around 2 hours plus

• 4x300m (5-10 minutes rest time per set)
  • Set 1: 41.5s
  • Set 2: 42.6s
  • Set 3: 45.0s
  • Set 4: Skipped, cramp onset

Body Conditioning: Around 30 minutes

• Abs/Back (5 types of 50 reps each)
• Pullup/Pushup (3 set of 5 reps each)
• Cardio Jogging (15 minutes)

Thoughts

My right knee is still feeling stiff and giving me problems, so I decided to skip today’s plyometrics which requires me jumping into the sandpit and my knee will probably be aggravated from all that impact

So I moved on to speed endurance. The ‘dread’ feeling before each speed endurance is always there. And always again, I told myself to just do it. It may hurt but it the kind of hurt that will benefit me

The first set was kind of easy, the timing was good. I felt light during the run and I tried a new dipping technique I saw on YouTube, where I saw Allyson Felix doing a fine dip. Well from video playback, hmm save to say, I really need to work a lot on my dipping! Hahaha

After the rest time from the first set, the lactic wasn’t that bad, it was bearable. After five minutes, I went to another set. This time the run wasn’t as ‘smooth’ as the first one. I kinda struggled. The timing indicated that

The last set, I really felt lactic was shooting up and I felt an onset of cramps coming up. I decided to skip the last set as I’ll probably do badly and with a cramp too. The third set timing was 45 seconds, it was an indication I had to stop, as my next run will be as bad. Maybe next week, I’ll go slower on the first set, and try to average 43 seconds instead

Since I won’t be doing double session today, I combined the body conditioning and cardio after speed endurance. The usual abs, pullup, pushup, jogging on grass and I’m done