I haven't updated since London last week Saturday...my bad, but this was all by design. The race in Stockholm yesterday was the last one before worlds. So I really wanted to prepare as best I could which for me means wrapping my self in a silent cocoon and focusing on the task at hand.
There was a race in Monaco on Tuesday and the girls had great conditions and used it well by running fast. I wasn't given a lane there and I felt I deserved one, but it was out of my control. So I used this week to zone in on competing well when my next opportunity presented it self, which was Friday night.
Happy to say I ran another Season's Best of 12.54 and my fourth in a row. ( 1. Lausanne 12.71, 2. Rome 12.70, 3. London 12.66, 4. Stockholm 12.54.). That is my fastest time in two years. When I saw the unofficial clocking, I thought the clock may have froze...I know how ridiculous, not giving myself the credit. I was just surprised because the run felt too technically wild and frantic early on to register that kind of time. But the latter hurdles I cleaned this up nicely and that made the difference.
Needless to say your girl was CRUNK...
As in so happy, pleased and extremely thankful. I so needed that with less than three weeks till the opening heats at worlds. I knew I had that kind of time in me and to make it official was like "SEE!"....to myself!
As in so happy, pleased and extremely thankful. I so needed that with less than three weeks till the opening heats at worlds. I knew I had that kind of time in me and to make it official was like "SEE!"....to myself!
I ran that time in the heats and still had the final two hours later to get ready for. I ended up placing 5th and running 12.65 another solid mark. I totally bombed the start and was out of it from the gun, and after the 8th hurdle didn't press the issue.
Before hand I told myself to forget the success of the heats and do the same thing in the final. However the emotion of posting my best time in years was hard to override. I also had to deal with cramping calves the entire warm up and pre race, which happens to me even in practice after a very hard run.
I would have loved to place better in the final but learned some things to take to Berlin. (Since the semi and finals are also within two hours there). I need to fix my warm up for the second race, which turns out was completely inadequate. No matter what I do in a semi or heat, it's a whole new deck of cards in the final. And probably most importantly, when in a race no matter where I am or start out, I can never give it up.
All valuable lessons that I would never have had if the day didn't unfold the way it did. I got some sweet and a little bit of sour to keep me on my toes and keep me in check. As in "Chix you ain't there...yet!". LOL. Very humbling, and enough to keep me confident but hungry.
Thanks for the prayers and support friends, family, keep 'em coming! A special thanks to those two nameless guys in the crowd tonight cheering my name...they were wearing the Canada body suits under their tees and pulled them off as I walked past to the starting line--hysterical & priceless! ..but WTH?!
I am so loving where I am and what gains I can make in the next 17 days. I haven't felt this excited or on the cusp of something great, in a very long time. I'm no where near satisfied.
Doing the work!
Perdita
