It feels good to be sore again--I felt like the taper over the last season was too extreme, I didn't really lose weight but I got weaker. Today was pretty much a recovery day from yesterday's speed and weights. Tomorrow I'll be hart at it again, plyos and cleans. I really want to fix all the technical issues that has been restricting me--sprint mechanics, weight form and foot contacts.

It's time to start anew, take a step back from a dreadful indoor season and go back to basic. Number one on my list is sprint mechanics especially in the support phase, my foot-strike is in front of my center of mass and I put the breaks on with every step. Tomorrow I am going to do a sprint workout focusing on the mechanics and keeping the reps low.
   It's also time to get strong again, I've pretty much had three months off from lifting today I tried to get back into deadlifts with just 3x225. They still hurt my shins and my technique is terrible but I know what I am doing wrong so it should be an easy fix. I shall fix it before I put the weight up.

Today's calorie intake: 2890
Weight: 158.6lb's

Not the performance I was looking for, not even close... 13.25m? A three year old could jump that. I can't believe I have to wait three months for the outdoor season to start. I can't believe I have to go three more months being a "13.60m" jumper.
   My first jump was the farthest, 13.25m, but the landing was messy... I lost a good 20cm from my elbow flailing back. The second jump appeared to be farther but it was a fair sized fault. The mark in the sand seemed to be pretty much at the 13.80m marker, maybe around 70 minus the fault. My last jump was just awful, a 12.96m (hahahha) apparently I was a board's length away from the board on takeoff and my landing was again messy.
   Technically all three jumps felt terrible, my take-off was messy, my step phase opened up completely and the landing was... well, about as bad as it could have been. The only thing that felt good was the first three strides on the runway.
   Tomorrow is the start of a new season. I'm feeling optimistic for this summer, being able to actually jump in a pit and work on the things I need to work on. For now I just need to work on getting all that lost strength back...

En route to Montreal and then Sherbrooke tomorrow for CIS. I'm not going to lie, I'm starting to get nervous, I'm excited to have another chance to compete before the season is over but it's also my last chance to jump like I know I can. If I can recreate the feeling I had at Atlantic's without faulting and with a much cleaner landing I think I'll do alright.

Today is about as much an off day as I'll ever have, I jogged a couple laps, three sets of 60m strides and finished off with 30 minutes of hurdles and a 12 minute ice bath (those are always fun). Tomorrow I'm going to do a few runways just to see how they'll feel, probably no weights.
   I'm feeling alright for CIS but not great, I've went up a few pounds but I think it's mostly water weight. I'll my school assignments will be done by tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to focus... nine hours of sleep tpnight will be nice too.

I've lost the momentum I had last week and I'm not quite sure why. Everything is the same as it was before, I don't feel like nationals are going to go particularly well. I'm going to have trouble making the final and that's my goal. I tried to get into the Canada Games Center to fix up my landing the the pit was covered and it supposedly wasn't to be open. I also went to Beazley Field but there was a layer of ice over the pit. After searching for ten minutes for the sand and then trying to dig it our for another ten I finally gave up. On a positive note it looks like I'll have time in a pit on Wednesday/Thursday.

I'm a little sore, a pulled muscle in my back and my legs feel a little drained. I ran five of the slowest 150m's of my life today, just to shake out the cobwebs. Tomorrow is another plyo day, I'm suspecting that I will take it quite lightly