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Dates on the Calendar

It is time to mark dates on the calendar for next season.  The next race on the calendar is an indoor meet in Winston-Salem on January 20. I have started my prep work with weights and some indoor running.  My soreness level has definitely increased after taking off several months from  racing and running.  I have been doing pilates to stay flexible, running about on a week or two on a tread mill, but little else.
 I did in the meantime finish the bathroom redo and it looks marvelous. 


That is part of our attempt to start running a bed n breakfast here in Brentwood, TN.  We are going to connect this bathroom with a bedroom for a nice little suite.
Linda does the cooking and feeds them and we hope it can work out.  
With the hard work done and living in transition and dust, we will move into the government phase of the project where we get the permits and other paperwork squared away.  Even if we cannot get the BNB thing to go, we have a much improved bathroom!  It as modern as we could make it in an 1880 model house.  This was the back porch when the house was built.



I looked into the Master Rankings yesterday to get the final low down on where I finished this season as compared to the rest of North America and the world as well. 

My outdoor finishes were:

1. 50 m    30th  in World  30th in North America
2. 60 m     27                      8
3. 100m    95                      35
4. 200m    57                      18
5. 400m   57                        11
6. HJ        37                        11

Indoor numbers are very similar, I get beat by the same people.   The 60 is fairly high because it is run very little outdoors.  It is fun to run outdoors, but is just not put in the program that much. 

It is quite obvious that I need to stay with the longer sprint in North America and continue to high jump.  These appear to be my medal events--so to speak.   I do not think I am ready to go to the Worlds and throw down yet, but in August I am putting Toronto on my list as meets to attend.  Hopefully, by then there will be enough sore knees and hamstrings so I can sneak in for a medal!

Major meets this year will be SE Regional Indoors and USATF Indoors in Winston-Salem.  USATF Outdoors in Ames , Iowa and the NCCWMA in Toronto, Canada in August.  Four big meets and I will sprinkle in a few other local meets to test the water a bit.  You need to race to be good at racing. I am not going to do the National or State Senior Olympics this year.   The National meet is in Albuquerque and the 5 days of the altitude is too much and recovery is horrible from the 400 and the State Games I did not even qualify.  I cut back a bit in term of racing.  I think I will train a little differently as well.  I need to get into the low 62's or better to be a factor in the 400 and 1.5 meters would be a really good height in the HJ. 

I know what needs to happen--now I need to execute.......

Have a great Holiday Season !!












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