I Might Try Stuff Like This Again.

I'm doing sprint workouts again. Full on sprint workouts. Nearly identical in form, process, and execution to what I did at my most "dedicated" of sprint pursuit periods....except slower, of course. Outside of a couple dips into this kind of thing (briefly) this past Fall, this is the first time I've done this at all, let alone even moderately consistently, since 2019.

I have three kids and I'm well into my 40s now. Also, the injuries....so many injuries; big ones, little ones, and everything in between. At various times between now and 2019, attempting a workout resembling "sprinting" in any capacity would have been legitimately impossible. I think I slipped a disc or something deadlifting in 2019. I tore an achilles in 2023. I even just had an appendectomy this past fall. But now I seem to be stringing together multiple weeks of fairly legitimate sprinting attempts/training. Last week, I timed myself in my first sub 14 second 120m run and my first sub 20 second 160m run since 2019. 

Admittedly, anyone "selftiming" their sprints can certainly be pretty well scoffed at in terms of accuracy. But being out there at all is essentially its own accomplishment for me, though, and seeing the trends and tracking that with my many years of data and results from other eras when I ran and self-timed, and it seems to indicate that there's something fairly legitimate to what I'm doing right now. Of course, continued health is the looming ever present question... 

I have goals for 2026 and beyond; frankly I've been trying build up to this since my recovery from the achilles began. It's not clear to me how realistic and achievable the goals I've got now actually are at this stage, though, but im holding on to them stillfor now. Having strung together this amount of sprint-ish training at this point...I think I might start documenting it all here now, again, and see how this all goes. Maybe I don’t delete it all in a tantrum this time, either, regardless of how it ends. I dunno, I guess we'll see.