National Indoor Championships
As we said in an earlier post, nearly all the lads are missing the early indoor season and training right through it.
The few Project 400 members to venture into action were John Laffey (John’s profile will be going up soon) and Paddy O’ Gorman. John felt like he wanted a break from training and decide just to enter the 60m. In fairness to John he managed to run 7.11 off deep winter training which is no mean feat.
Paddy made his competitive return to action after a 2 and 1/2 year break due to injury. He too decided to go straight into the event without altering his Winter training and went for the endurance route by running both the 200 and 400 over the weekend. Paddy had the joint 2nd place time in the 200m final with 22.76 and finished 4th in the 400m final after getting the undesirable lane 1 draw. Congratulations to Nick Hogan who had a great weekend, with a breakthrough 48.36 in the 400m final coming second and also Brian Gregan who ran 48.90 coming 3rd. The race was won by English athlete Richard Strachan.
Back of retirement is Antoine Burke. Antoine (who now lives in Australia) ran a 48.56 opener to his season down under in the Canberra Grand Prix meeting. Welcome back Antoine!
February 13th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Hey guys good start to a hopefully succesful 08′ campaign. I am of Irish heritage living in America and I’m glad to see the country I love so much has a group of guys gettin ready to challenge some top world competition. I myself am a 200/400 specialist with long jump and javelin in my bag of tricks. I have personal bests of 22.5 and 48.9 respectively and 6.55 meters in long jump. You guys should post your actual workouts so that we can get a chance to see what the real professionals are doing to prepare for Bejing. Well as I said it looks like a good start and good luck in your quests.