Yet another change in plans

After speaking with a couple people down in Puerto Rico, I've decided I will still run at World Champs in March. I am NOT in the shape I hoped to be right now (because of freezing weather) but I am still in pretty good shape.

So far all year Coach McGills time trials have been within 0.05s of my actual FAT times. In late December my time trials were consistently 7.8x and i ran 7.84 in my first meet with about 90% effort. The 60 Dash trials were always 6.8low and 6.7high and i ran 6.85 and 6.83 in the dash. If his timing skills are still on par then i am currently well under 7.70 in the 60 hurdles.

In practice coach gives us two whistles. The first is SET and the second is GO. He starts the clock as he blows the whistle, and stops the clock when one stride clears the finish line.

When you start the watch off of movement you will get varying degrees of accuracy because the timer is starting anywhere from .2 to .3 seconds late. Same goes when one person starts the athletes and another times the athletes. The timer is having to react to the starter just like the athletes, which causes a loss in accuracy.

Through trial and error we have found that having the person timing, be the person giving the commands gives the most consistent times and also brings us as close to FAT as we can get without setting up the actual electronic equipment.

The last meet i planned for this indoor season was to be at Vtech on the 19th and 20th of the month. After emailing them though i found out that only unattached athletes who currently train at the school are allowed to compete in the meet. So I wont get a chance to compete again before the championships.

I will instead head to Puerto Rico to train in the warm weather for 2 weeks before i head to Qatar. I might run at a meet in Puerto Rico next weekend, if i get down there in time. But seeing as they dont run the shorter distances, it will be over a full flight of 10 hurdles and 110 meters. Should be interesting to see what i can do.

So I guess im still on for this indoor season. I will be going pretty hard these next 3 weeks in practice and although this indoor season did not go according to plan, i still plan on doing big things when i get to Qatar.