Local star George Elliot to Blog for RunSouthend.com!

RunSouthend.com are pleased to announce that local track star George Elliot has joined Run Southend as one of our athlete bloggers, letting us know how his training and racing is going.

Fresh from his victory in the BMC Peter Coe mile on Sunday, George has already written his first blog letting us know what he's been up to so far this season!

My Track And Field Season - so far

I started my season off being coached by Martin Brown and I have found training has been very different to what i've been used to. I found it very hard to adjust for a while as my fist race went terrible, this was a 3k, even though i'm not the biggest lover of them I found it very hard to do and nearly ran 10min which was very scary as I know that i'm much faster than that. The training that i've been doing this year has been more speed based  which involved some really bad lactic sessions, which would consist of  300m x400m x300m flat out but with a big rest of 7 mins in between efforts but which does still get to you. I clocked 38sec, 54 sec, and 39sec. I've completed similar sessions to this but what I haven't been doing too much of this year is the longer stuff like the 1k reps although I always do my long run every weekend to run a hard weeks of training out of my legs.Trying to adjust to this kind of training has been hard work but I think i'm getting there as i'm able to push myself now and starting to see and feel progression.

I've still done a lot of things this year like I broke my 800m pb ( 1:56.9) and that time was able to get me to English School but I was gutted when I was knocked out of the semi final and didnt make the final as I knew I had the ablility to get there but you'd say we win some we lose some. On a positive note, I think that race brought out the real me and I came back to training, running harder and faster  and more determined than I have been before. 

A new race came up which I thought that i might have a pop at which I knew was going to be a hard race to do but leading up to that race i'd been training really well and been doing longer reps, for example 600m with a 200m jog back which was hard i found after doing all this speed work. I won the Peter Coe mile in the end in 4:23 which felt amazing as I wasn't ready for that and didn't think that i'd win. I now feel like i'm starting to hit a bit of form and hopefully be able the finish the season off with new pbs. I've got a 400m race up in tonbridge this sunday so hopefully I will get a pb then.

George