In you absence it got turned up several notches

Ive been gone for a minute from practice in Atlanta it would appear.  As the work has been turned up a whole heap.  Its only day two in this six day schedule and I am smashed but, not out.

To start off with we had body fat testing. Yep jump on the scales and then the calipers were out to measure all those areas where you hold fat. I did pretty good at 11.8%. Got some work to do by hell it could have been alot worse. 

The session yesterday was a bitch on paper and an even bigger bitch when I ran it. Short recovery session on a Monday. Why????    lol 

Sleep was the cure after practice 2 PM till 8 PM i only got up because I need a pee and was hungry.  : (

Today was acceleration I was tapped out by the second set. But, its so good to be back with the group I was able to muscle through. I still have 4 more days. No such thing as easing me in gently.  : )

I've got a new camera so here are some snaps from today enjoy.

The gang

Karl must have just had a good start he's cheesing

Black is slimming.  lol 11.8% remember 

Dani C in between her hurdle runs

Lisa looking over the workout

New toy

Moving onto outdoors

You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.

-- Author Unknown

To say I am disappointed with my World Indoors is an understatement

My knee blew up on the plane on the way over and that was pretty much it. The medical team were great as they worked everyday sometimes 3 times a day to get the swelling down. I lost alot of power in my quad and that pretty much is the long and short of it.


I would like to say Thank you to Andy, Lilly, Craig, Pierre and Dr Paul for all their help. 

The whole point of this blog is for me to be honest so there you have it. And now I draw a line under indoor 2010 and move on. Ive pretty much taken the week off to let the swelling go down.

I head back to Atlanta in a few hours where the weight room and single leg exercises will be my best friend.

Shrug shoulders

And moving on

(Hey I'm still smiling)

Urrrrggh

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us--------William Feather

The noise of the day.

I fell victim to the new false start rule today and got my ass DQ'd out of a race. Yeah yeah discipline is key.

Lesson learnt and onto the next one.

I also had a 100m indoors which I won in 11.56. New British Record indoors. So why am I not happy? Cause I wanted to run in the 60m

Doha bound

So I got selected today to go to Doha.  I'm one of those people that needs to see things in writing to believe. (I know tut tut but whatever) lol

I have two more races before I head out Floro,Norway and Lieven, France. 

So I'm gonna keep my head down race and prepare.

Not much else to tell

Jx

World Indoor Trials - Sheffield

Thursday

So I set off to the trials for World Indoors in Sheffield on Thursday.  I had to make a run to my 2nd home (the airport) first to scoop up my coach who flew in from the Stockholm track meet the night before. 

We headed over to Lee Valley to put in a Pre Meet training session before the 3 hour drive up north.

The session went really well considering the day before I had been on bed rest.  I have picked up a nasty bug from Moscow. Not sure if it was the flight or the hotel.  All I know is when I was trying to practice on Tuesday I nearly passed out. Saw stars and broke out into a sweat. So tissues and Paracetamol at the ready off I headed to Sheffield.

I had cut a deal with Loren that he would do the motorway drives and I would do the city road drive. Hmmmmm bad move as we swapped seats at the service station on M1.  Imagine Loren gripping the steering wheel for dear life as he navigating getting us back on the motorway. His shoulders hunched and not rested back on the seat and me braking in the passenger seat. Hmmmmm (fun times)  lol

I am not very familiar with the streets of Sheffield so it took us as usual and extra 30mins of driving to find the hotel. (Sheffield is the land of the ring road and round about).  

Friday

Today consists of pre meet warm up. So I went to the track in the morning to lift and then returned later for a warm up session on the track. Loren had a complete look of shock on his face because the allocated time for athletes to use the track was 7pm - 9pm. Loren was eager for us to get there on time I didn't understand what his urgency was, until he mentioned in the car the the track would be busy. (Oh little did he know).  There was a grand total of maybe 10 people on the track.  lol

I had my pick of all lanes.

Saturday

Good breakfast and off to the track basically.

   I was not feeling my best I wont lie all Loren kept telling me is "you don't have to be at your best to be your best" The team in the call room had a good laugh at me as I constantly blew my nose and hacked up. I don't think the girls in my race were too impressed but oh well. 

I won the 60m for the 6th or 7th time I actually not sure. Happy? Yes. I qualified for the 60m at the World Indoors so job done. : ).  Of course I was drug tested which took a while and had me peeing for the rest of the night as I drank far to much to provide sample.

Sunday

Could I feel any worse than yesterday the answer would be YES. I made arrangements to see the Dr after my first round in the 200m. I won my heat in 23.81 but was having problems breathing. It was like I was unable to catch my next breath.  The Dr gave me some antibiotics which I was to start taking at the end of the competition.