Friday, January 30, 2009

first practice, hawaii

phonetic languages are great. i seldome spell hawaii incorrectly. unlike mispell, or is it miss pell. my hawaii training program is basically my normal program, except i've run all winter. i took almost 10 days off from running, but until that point i'd run at least 3 days per week, varying between 9 mile runs and interval sessions varying between hill repeats or treadmill intervals. today i finally picked up a disc and played with the kids. we played dutch (10 passes for a point, 3 to win in a box) mini (short field make it take it) then small field 4v4 with pulls. i was ok. playing with kids, i end up aiming it a bit, so with the short field i was a bit off with the longer stuff, but i moved allright. the shin started hurting after an hour or so, but i'm saying it's probably allright.

been skiing my brains out,

monday weights
tuesday 1.5 hours easy
wednesday 1.5 hours medium, 1 hour bike, weights
thursday 1.5 hours with 5x6min decent intervals with 3 minutes rest
friday ultimate.

tomorrow, kids race, and i'll ski as much as i can, do some intervals or a time trial, and either run or bike easy when i get home.

thoughts: couldn't place the inverts well, felt like i wasn't springy, etc... but i'm not really ultimate training. the morning sessions fell through, but i'll try to play frisbee one more time.

thoughts for kaimana: hopefully i can get the team engaged in a little structure, as i think it will help us in the later games, but i'll be lucky if i can get them to think about anything other than the social game. cool team, mix of current studs, former champs, party stars, and me.

team of HS kids already has a couple of potential ringers showing up, senior receivers and soccer kids. the usual story, it'll be a mix of returners and new athletes.

the skiing has been stellar. we haven't had real snow in weeks, but miraculously it's been good skiing. over the past 2 weeks, we had enough snow in town to keep me off the roads running, but it looks to be good weather (or, bad, if you are a skier) such that i'll be able to keep the running up before the tourney.

ok, frisbee thought for the day:
generic 4 month frisbee plan for HS kids.
play frisbee 3 days a week, with drills and scrimmage
run 3 days a week, and throw 100 throws after.

the frisbee will build in terms of strategy and tactics
the running will move from base to short stuff so run for one month, do shorter hard runs or intervals for 1.5 months, do ladders for the last month, taper for the last 2 weeks.

if appropriate, strength train: but you have to be careful strength training HS kids based on physical development.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

what the what.

i'm about to throw down the 3 week frisbee training throwdown.
Here's the goals:
3 days of shuttle runs
3 days of throwing. if i can combine the two, it's a 3 day training program.
lame, but, it's not like i'm off the couch, and i've run more than i ever have in the winter. and some intervals. just need enough speed to minimize risk of injury. i have neither the time nor inclination for a full on, 4 day per week frisbee prep program, but the team looks stacked, so hopefully i can play my way into shape over 3 days.

that's a joke. but at least i'm running.

ski'd a lot this week.

what the what.

i'm about to throw down the 3 week frisbee training throwdown.
Here's the goals:
3 days of shuttle runs
3 days of throwing. if i can combine the two, it's a 3 day training program.
lame, but, it's not like i'm off the couch, and i've run more than i ever have in the winter. and some intervals. just need enough speed to minimize risk of injury. i have neither the time nor inclination for a full on, 4 day per week frisbee prep program, but the team looks stacked, so hopefully i can play my way into shape over 3 days.

that's a joke. but at least i'm running.

ski'd a lot this week.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

hiway hawaii

awright. gearing up for hawaii. don't have the personal days cleared yet. but the ticket is in the bag, so is the registration.

training. well, i'm doing a basic, build program. 15 hours per week right now. running 3-4 days per week, 2xintervals, one 9 mile run. plus 4-5 days per week skiing, 2 of those were intervals. resting fridays. monday weights, and easy biking. threw sunday, and wasn't nearly as bad as i'd thought i'd be.

planning on throwing in some early morning speed and agillity for 2 weeks prior to the tournament. probably try to throw 2x per week just for kicks.

my team is the typical hawaii team. lots of talk of shotgunning by players who will in fact show up and try to win. or have i lost it, and should i expect lots of winners showing up with nothing on their mind except drinking. i will show up with goals of playing to win, and temper them with the reality of drinking.

thinking about my cleats: don't like the new speed tds i have, may pick up some soccer cleats just so i can mix it up. and, yes, i'm thinking of the ridiculosu new pumas.

go southern dandys... it's blogonautoferific.