We've got an indoor meet coming up this weekend and the current plan is to go as a family. It's a very informal meet for all ages. My son will run and we should have a decent size group from our area going up. It's always fun to see the kids competing because they have the ability to get better every time they compete. As opposed to us Masters athletes who fight to slow our declining performances as much as possible.
My current training program is really a mix of different programs. I don't do any indoor training on a track, partially to give my legs a rest in the winter, but also due to not having easy access to a track to practice on. I'm still working out with my wife for about half of the week so those days are either Les Mills Combat or Turbo Fire. For the past couple of weeks I have been adding in P90X, RevAbs, and Insanity: The Asylum workouts. I still think Asylum has the best workouts for Track and Field so I try to get those in on days where I can really get a good workout in. The past couple of weekends I have done the Game Day and Championship workouts as my meet day simulations.
So we'll see if the hybrid workout approach pays off this weekend or if I will need to make some modifications and go more specifically to an Asylum-based program.It will also be interesting to see how my son does with a block start. He's been practicing with the blocks, but it almost seems to be throwing off his first few steps. I think at this point he doesn't want to use them, but I'll have them there in case he changes his mind.
It's been fun to watch the kids practicing with the blocks. They take turns with a Nerf gun as the starting pistol and run through their whole starting sequence just like the pros. Very cute.
The quote for this week is from Insanity: The Asylum Volume 2 - Championship:
"Whenever there's 70 meters left to go in a 400 you've got two choices to make - you can give up, or you can keep going." - Shaun T
