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Sprints

[Today 1 mile plus 10 100 meter sprints]

It’s been awhile since I did any sprints.  So this weekend I grabbed up the 100′ tape measure and some stakes and a couple of old cans of spray paint and laid out a 329 ft. section in front of the house.

Three hundred twenty nine feet is just a few inches over 100 meters.

Tonight I gave it a try.  I jogged down to the stop sign and back, 1 mile.  Then I ran 10 repeats of the 100 meters.  I usually try to do a few easy, a few medium, and a few hard.  Since I had not done this in awhile, I only did two hard ones, #7 and #9.  In between each sprint I walked back to the start and tried to recover.

I don’t think I overdid it, but I can definitely feel it.  My fastest were just under 19 seconds.  I hope to trim that down some over the next few weeks.

A couple of weeks ago track and field great and former NFL player Willie Gault ran 11.30.  He’s about 6 months older than I am.