Third time trying to post this, wasn't working for some reason.
3 different races and 5 weeks of training to talk about, gonna be a long post. Going to start by talking about the 3 races I had this week. 1 on Wednesday and 2 earlier today.
7.16, Lane 2, 4th place, Wednesday 19th January
This was a really good race. Decent start, transition and top speed. It was all round just a pretty well run race. There isn't really much else to talk about with the race itself. This was the first heat so I got 4th overall at the meet and was the second youngest out of the 48 people there (most of them were masters athletes). This was a big improvement on the 7.25 I ran back in December.
In regards to the days/week leading up to race, I think I handled it very very well. I went for a very high intensity, high rest kind of approach and it worked well. The 5 days leading up to the race looked like this:
5 days out: 2x30m, 5x10m fly followed by drop jumps and bounds
4 days out: REST
3 days out: 5x30m, 1x10m fly followed by more drop jumps, a power complex (quarter squats/band assisted jumps) and a little core work. The idea with this session was to get some really high neural outputs to kinda potentiate for the race.
2 days out: REST
1 day out: shake out session, some light drills and accelerations, no spikes
So ye it looks like there isn't much rest in there but I actually felt very well rested before the race. Usually I would do some kind of plyo session the morning of the meet but I didn't do anything like that and I think it worked better I think.
7.21, Lane 7, 6th place, Sunday 23rd January
This was the first of my 2 races today. It was pretty bad to be honest. I think I minorly fucked up my warm up did too many warm up sprints, like I did 5 all-out 30m block starts. Don't know what I was thinking but it was probably too much. Also, the race before me was probably the fastest 60m in Irish history, 3 out of the top 6 times ever ran in 1 race and Isreal Olutunde lowering his under 23 record from 6.67 to 6.64, such a sick dude. Anyway I got so caught up watching this race and congratulating the guys afterwards that I completely forgot I was in the next race. Had to set up my blocks and do 1 warm up run while basically everyone else was ready to go. Kinda embarrassing and didn't give me any time to calm down and get into the zone before t
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I read an article today about a Finnish university that published a comprehensive global road map on how the world can reduce its carbon emissions before the 2050 deadline – and research shows that it is feasible!
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Here is the report which breaks down exactly how the world can transition to 100% renewable energy as a means of preventing the more catastrophic outcomes of irreversible climate change.
Does this give anyone more hope for the future of our planet? I would love to hear all of your thoughts.
