Peak

This moment in time, for me, may well end up being my overall peak sprinting/training moment of the entire year. I write that with an awareness of its absurdity, but I also can't deny how close to true it is at risk of becoming. While I am practically guaranteed to become stronger and faster moving forward (barring likely inevitable injury), it's right NOW and in this moment that the possibilities are still nearly limitless. This is because I've actually run and trained enough, been "healthy" enough, and seen enough progressions in my running workouts that I can fantasize about running some fairly ambitious 100m dashes without being ENTIRELY 100% delusional. 

This current point in my work out "schedule" is essentially a nexus point; a crossroads if you will. From here, I either continue an elongated rate of progression more or less in line with what I've seen over the last couple weeks...or the progression comes down to earth relatively quickly as the realities of training again start to settle in. And from where I currently stand, either option is equally as possible. Kind of....to an extent... Perhaps some of the "fast" stuff I'm starting to dream up are already pretty delusional regardless of circumstances. I can admit that. Maybe.

But the fact that I can still ponder some workout and training progressions so ambitously with at least a modicum of credibility means that, from an excitement and fantasy factor, this is probably as good as it's going to get for me. This is peak. And since this is essentially a hobby now, this moment is probably highly notable for its peak "fun". Once my workouts start disproving my wildest projections...then I can't play with them as ideas in my head anymore. Not this year at least..., and now being in my 40s, maybe not any year after.

So, to get down to it...I've got some made up maths for my made up workouts that indicate that I'm theoretically approaching 11.05ish (admittedly a best-case scenario) 100m dash ability from my last sprint workout, which was last Friday. Even that claim seems suspicious, but there seems to be SOME backing to it from my past experiences. That 11.05 is down from a theoretical 11.20ish from a sprint workout prior to it, which had been about eight days before. The workout before THAT indicated around a 11.32/11.37ish ability. That seems like a fairly legitimate trend...assuming the data and theory are accurate (a fairly dubious claim).

If you stretch that trend out to the next running workout I have, which is tentatively set for this Monday if the weather holds out, then that workout should indicate around a 10.9ish 100m ability. That....that's probably asking a lot. But, if I can do that? That's starting to get serious, especially if some version of the progression (even a slower one) continues.

I also recently found some old sprint workout data I thought I lost and scoured through it a bit. Finding it gave me a chance to not only better contextualize some of the current data I've got, but also maybe helped me see with more clarity what I was actually doing and achieving back then (circa 2019).  It would be very interesting if I can keep training this hard and this well, and see if I can get back to the fitness I think I had in 2019. Because at THAT time, I thought I was actually running REALLY well. If I can match those workout sprint results again, and then actually compete and get a true 100m result, then that would be a real barometer of not only my abilities and training methods, but also my ability to judge my fitness at any given moment.

Tonight I've got a depth jump plyo workout planned, and then I'm set to take it pretty easy until Monday for, hopefully, a full intensity sprint workout on an outdoor track with good weather. That's going to be a pretty official test of a bunch of my plans, expectations, and hopes. Depending on how that running workout really goes, I might be prepared to make some plans and decisions on some fairly impending competition options. So...here goes nuthin, I guess.