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Quote from: Mutumbo000 on September 19, 2016, 01:56:52 am

It's definitely a lot easier training when you've got something to work towards. By competing in amateur comps it gives you a purpose and also gives you objective feedback (times) of how you're travelling. Good luck for the season and bring on the warmer weather 

Thanks mate! I figured it was the best way to have an objective gauge of ability without injury risk of bball (definitely not the cheapest way though, AthsVic summer rego is $225 this year for 12 comps, of which you lose 1-2 per season due to heat  ).

Playing sports in Australia isn't cheap. I was lucky with rugby my team had a lot of sponsers so it was free, but when I used to play district basketball I remember the fees were like $300 a season and there were 2 seasons a year. so it was $600 + you had to pay for your uniform and shoes. Even school basketball usually charged $5 a game and that was for public schools. I'm thinking of switching to rugby league next season and that's $300 as well, but juniors are free (they want to boost participation of rugby league in SA). In regards to Athletics I think Athletics SA also charges a similar rego fee for the season as well. I suppose the organisations have to make their money somehow especially as the Government doesn't want to contribute much.

Hehe sorry guys. 

Training last two weeks has been a bit disrupted work-wise. But got in at least one gym-track-jumps session each week, usually two gym, one track, one jumps.

My vert has plateaued a little bit just because again the jumps have been inconsistent. I found a nice little spot around 6PM just before games start at the gym where it's free-ish. Occasionally not, but usually get about 15-20 jumps in total on a good day. It's not ideal and I'm still working on the best solution to the perpetual lack of consistent rim time. Study makes it hard to be consistent with getting to the gym at the same time each week.

The first aths comp is tomorrow. My plan for the season is basically to continue following the program to the best of my ability and increase the use of the weights vest to practically every session as I adapt more and more. Lately I've just been wearing it for jumps, not track yet. For the actual competition, I like the idea of doing a poor man's 'power heptathlon': 100m, 200m, 400m, high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put. I chose those because they require the least amount of extra training on top of what I'm doing already - the other throws are too technical and I can't practice them anyway. In that vein, I'll probably just scissor kick the high jump until I fail as I can't flop to save my life. I could replace the 400m with an 800m to get a test of endurance in there bu it's more the timing of the event, it's immediately after the 200m on the program so I'd run terribly anyway.

So the plan is to do every comp (~fortnightly on a Sat) and do the events above each program, and just try and improve them. Week one is [200m/triple/shot/high jump] and week two is [100m/400m/long jump] Some will be taken less seriously (high jump and 200m/400m mostly) but improving those should help the main game. Even though the amateur comp is poorly run I like being part of the club and competing, gives me something else to think about apart from study!

Predictions for tomorrow:

200m - 25.85sec (no feel for this AT ALL)
Triple - 10.50m
Shot put - 8.40m
High jump - 1.40m (scissor kick only)

That sucks about the timing for the 200m. I was pissed off when I didn't get a wind indicator let alone a time.

cool that you have amateur track and field competitions btw. we don't have any here, and i already graduated highschool, so i missed my chance for all that stuff.

yea, that sucks that they missed your time. try this out though if you wanna self time yourself though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlaBJQoTDRE

where do you live? there aren't bi-weekly comps in my area (metro DC) but there are a few all-comers meets over the course of the summer and a couple of indoor ones in the winter. had to do a bit of googling to find them but they're there.

That sucks about the timing for the 200m. I was pissed off when I didn't get a wind indicator let alone a time.

I got it in the end but yeah, it's annoying not to just get it straight after the race. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a wind measurement! Haha.

Quote from: Mutumbo000 on October 08, 2016, 09:08:42 am

That sucks about the timing for the 200m. I was pissed off when I didn't get a wind indicator let alone a time.

I got it in the end but yeah, it's annoying not to just get it straight after the race. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a wind measurement! Haha.

That's good they sorted out the times. Usually with our comp the times weren't available straight away, but were available after a couple of hours. They were very good with recording the wind as well, as people use the meets to qualify for nationals  and without a wind reading the time isn't 'legal'.

Training going OK. I actually got the dates wrong for the comps, they're starting out with four in a row, before switching to fortnightly-ish over the holidays. I was planning on doing the 100,LJ and 400 as described earlier but the program ran way over time due to the usual fuckups and the 400m got pushed back to 6PM, couldn't stay that long. Unfortunately it's likely to be like that every time the 400 is on.  I might do a 400m finisher at some point during track training and just hand-time it, should be accurate enough, and hopefully run it properly if things are on time next program.

100m - 12.38sec. I predicted around 12.2-12.3, overall felt pretty good given I've done one blocks session (earlier last week).

Long jump - 5.08m - awful jumping again. A weird cross-wind didn't help the runup but it was still shit. I don't know why my horizontal jumps are so bad atm. Too much vertical jumping?

Next day I managed to get time on the court, an incredible rarity on a Sunday afternoon. Did about 20-30 weighted jumps total. They weren't very high (rim-grazing) but...might have been a bit tired from the day before.