Track Training

The company is having a sports day this coming wednesday and as the newest guy in the department, I'm bound to get thrown a few events, well I've been signed up for 3 events. The Telematch, 400m and 4x400m. The last time I ever ran competitively was something like what 20 yrs ago !! Luckily I've been hitting the gym for the past month, in my attempt for a healthy living. It has been a long time since I went to the track, so today I decided to head on down to the Toa Payoh Stadium track to give it a go. After doing my warm ups, feeling good, I was ready to give it a go and time my 400m run. Well it started great .... for like 50m and then the pain sets in, the legs go heavy, the lungs are burning, the head goes woozy, it feels like the straights were straighter and the curves were curviyer, everything seems to be ten times longer than what I actually remembered. It took an eternity but I did it and completed the lap in ... drum roll ..... 1min 37 secs. Holy Stopwatch Batman !! I think any track teammates who are reading this would probably be laughing their heads off. Ah guess that spare type and those love handles are taking their toll, but I don't have that much hair as before, that should have trim off some weight. 2nd Lap - time 1min 41secs 3rd Lap - time 1min 36 secs Well the only consolation for running 1.40 average is that it leads to a 10min 2.4km timing :) I was told that there are some good runners from the other departments, they have their own weekly running sessions and all that. So my realistic target for the events will be that I will try not to end up last, hopefully I can crawl back in the second last position at least. All I can say is I will be definately starting the race, finishing is another matter. The other alternative is pray for rain and get the event cancelled :)