A bit of history.

My current training logs are all electronic, either an excel spreadsheet, a google doc to track volume, or the uploaded stats from my GPS watch onto Garmin's website. I had this idea of taking all my older training logs from high school and early university and putting them into excel spreadsheets, like those that I now use. I've been drifting back through the history of my running career.

Throughout this season I'm going to do several blogs that take a look back. Here's the first one.  

In front of me is my log from the 2002 track season when I was in grade 10. I came into the season with the following PB's:

400m - maybe non-existent

800m - 1:59

1500m - 4:07?

3km - 9:13

I finished the season with following PB's

400m - 49.7

800m - 1:54

1500m - 4:03

3km - 8:49

I'm trying to find a "typical" training week, but every week seems to be a mash-up of workouts, easy runs, and races. There's almost an anti-structure; a purposeful absence of rigidness to better suit the young ADHD sixteen year old mind. Every week that appears to possess a hint of order ends in "drove down to ____" followed by the race. I guess that is as good as typical:

Sunday: 45min run (the "long" run of the week, sometimes up to 50minutes)

Monday: day-off (...usually)

Tuesday: 200 (400m pace) - 5min rest - 4x200 (800m pace with 30sec rest b/) - 5min rest - 200 (400m pace); splits were 26.5, 28.4-29.1-29.4-28.5, 25.6

Wednesday: 30min run

Thursday: warm-up 

Friday: drove down to Kelowna for Jack Brow meet; raced 3km in 8:49 for 3rd place

Saturday: 4x100m relay (serious.)

Sunday: 1500m race in 4:04 for 3rd, barely out-kicked by Iain McCormack with cornrows