With the conclusion of the past weekend, I will only have less than 4 weeks time left until my first competition of the year, which is the MASUM championships. What's so special about this competition besides it being the first of the year? Nothing much except that it's the Malaysian university championships. For this simple reason, it's actually my biggest target for the university track season. Certainly the timing is not optimum, with it being my opener for the year, but nothing that can be changed. What I can change though is my training and ability.
Lately, my performances in training have been somewhat better, as I feel some gradual improvement. On the other hand, I am still getting sent to the cleaners by Prakash, my training mate. So obviously it's still a work in progress. Most of the stuff we are doing now in the workouts have been intervals that are more on the short side, except for some pyramids consisting of 400, 800 and 1200, and the beloved 'last runs' that usually cap off a workout session.
As for the long-ish stuff, I am still struggling a bit but not as bad as before. Hell, a half marathon might be beyond me for now, but at least I can still pull through a 40 minute run, even if I have to run ugly to do it. Add that to the fact that the longest race coming up will probably be 10000m on the track, things don't look that bad after all.
P/S While I already had a full semester of lifesaving lessons before me and am doing the second level already, lifesaving classes still hurt like a bitch.
