Hot, hot, hot at the track

This afternoon a few calls and texts checking if we are training, "yes, we will do shorter reps and recover in the shade", was my response.

I arrived just before 5pm, according to the car gauge it was 35 degrees, damn, I was hoping it would have cooled a little. A group of 19 kids tonight, including my two boys. We all started with two laps followed by some some dynamic stretching in the shade behind the change rooms, then onto the track for 3x100m strides, back into the shade for some stair drills.

With water bottles in wet towels we made our way to the 150m marker, the session was 8x150m at stride pace with a 30m acceleration zone at the 80-110m markers. Some of the kids did a few less, but the majority stayed for the entire set, much longer breaks than normal, encouraged a drink and a wet towel for each recovery before taking off in groups of 4/5 in land 3 & 4 as other groups were using lane 1/2 and I had the big group and didn't want to get in the way.

We then finished off with a walk and jog on the grass as one big pack and then into the shade on the soccer pitch for stretching, push comps and plank comps.

Only 3k for me tonight, more about the coaching and less about me today and with track racing tmrw, that's ok.

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Jo took this photo two weeks ago just before we left home to watch Melbourne Victory kick butt (which they did)... Front to back, Kaelan (in light blue), then Connor, Declan & then me.