new years training

new years, a day of significance to many. people stay up to watch the clock strike 12. there's the nyc ball drop, there's the fireworks in every major city against beautiful icons such as the london eye and sydney harbour bridge, then there's also me, who is sound asleep before the clock even struck 12. 

why? training on new years day! 

we were separated into 2 groups, the short distance and the long distance. thankfully i was placed in the former group. we started off with a 4km warm up, then moved to drills. after drills we did 3 rounds of 2km run, 3 rounds of a 1km run, 3 rounds of a 500m sprint and 3 rounds of 300m sprints. 

the menu for the long distance runners (which i was grateful for being excluded from) was a 10km warm up. 4km sprints, twice. then they started their 400m sprints x 30 times. in total they clocked in 30km that day. 

we were at the track basically till noon. 

i was starving by the end of training. went for chillipanmee after to fill my tummy. 

it was a great new years day. really started it with a big bang. last year, i did skytrek, this year i made it a meaningful training day. here's to many more to come.