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Today’s Workout Log

Warm-up

120-yard jog
120-yard backward jog
120-yard sideways cross-over run
30-yard high-knee run
30-yard butt-kick run
60-yard power skip

Workout

“HIIT Day”

120-yard sprint (~15 seconds)
Walk-back (~75 seconds)
Repeat for 9 total sprints

Cool-down

1/4-mile walk

Workout Journal Notes

Wow, what a relief! Here’s the scoop…

First, I was surprised to see only one soccer game just ending and no one else coming in, so it wasn’t as crowded as it usually is on Saturday’s.

Last time I did 100’s, I did them on the first field which is a bit smaller. From goal-line to goal-line is only about 80 yards, so I have to estimate the final 20.

But, I headed to the back field today, since it looks a little bigger, and my semi-accurate walk-off measurement confirmed that it was definitely longer.

I usually underestimate, because my freakishly long legs have a hard time only walking one yard at a time, so I kept getting about 110 yards.

I figured that was a strange number, and the field had to be either 100 yards or 120, and 120 just seemed too far to be right.

So, even with my usual underestimation telling me I probably should have gone with 120, I shrugged it off and decided this was 100 yards.

I began sprint number 1, and I felt good, but I also felt like, “Hmm, that was pretty far!”

I still didn’t think too much about it, until I was completely gassed by sprints 4 and 5.

I even started to think that maybe my low-carb experiment this week was sapping my energy.

Since I publicly stated my goal yesterday of wanting to hit at least 9 sprints, I somehow gutted out the last few and even nearly matched my first time with my last of 14.91 seconds.

Now, the relief part: As soon as I got home, I compared my times to my last “100’s” that I did on the smaller field and was relieved to find that today’s were definitely longer.

Last time my “100’s” took about 13 seconds each and 60 seconds to walk back, but today, my “100’s” took about 15 seconds each and 75 seconds to walk back.

So either I got a lot slower and my legs shrunk in one week, or today’s really were quite a bit longer than last times.

I’m still not sure if my previous “100’s” were really only 80’s and today’s were true 100’s, or if my previous 100’s were really 100’s and today’s were 120’s.

I have to lean toward today’s being 120’s just because of how I usually undershoot the total distance with my walk-offs, but either way I did a lot more overall work than last time, which is awesome and confirms that my low-carb diet hasn’t negatively affected my energy at all this week.

I really just need to get one of those long measuring tapes, so I can know for sure which is which, but I’m also thinking about heading down to a local middle school next time to see if I can use their football field, which would make measuring much easier, since the markers are already there.

It’s just another case of mind over matter where I probably would have had no chance to complete all 9 if I had known for sure that I was running a lot farther than last time.

Tomorrow is the big day! Measurement time and judgement day for my current high-carb vs. low-carb experiment.

I’ve felt great all week and expect some hypothesis-confirming improvements tomorrow!