Training well and hard in 25 degrees today, so that was nice. Today’s session was 4×300m, 10 minutes recovery. Myself and Paul Hession did this, and it was hard towards the end. Paul suprised me with his strength at the end, may be there is a possible 4×400m in him! not sure Stuart (coach) will agree to that though. (more…)
Just a quick note from Stellenbosch today as there was good news for project 400m. After talking to Kristoff Beyens, the Belgian 200m world semi finalist, I can confirm 2 new opportunites for 4×400m Olympic Qualification. (more…)
After flying from Dublin to Amsterdam at 6am on Tuesday morning with Paul Hession, we met up with our coach Stuart Hogg and Nick Smith and set off for Cape Town. We then had a 20 minute drive to Stellenbosch, better known for its vineyards (wineries) and got there at about 11.30pm.
Of course being the insomniac of the group I watched a film until about 1am before getting around 3 hours sleep. Luckily there was just a warm up for Wednesday’s training. Today we started training properly, we had weights and then some 50m sprints, which was very nice in the 30 degree heat, especially since just last Monday the track in Belfast was closed due to snow an ice!
Track session tomorrow so I’ll keep you posted!
After a Christmas spent catching up on some extra sleep all the Project 400 lads are back in heavy training. We all tend to train through the Christmas period but you end up missing a session here or there, with most gyms closed for about 4 days around Christmas day.
We’d like to thank all of you who have left comments on the blog. Speedster Derval O’ Rourke was the first to leave a comment, so thanks Derval, unfortunately there is no prize but we you have our thanks, which is worth more than any gold medal.
So what is everyone up to at the moment?
David Gillick is training in his base at Loughborough. John Laffey is keeping things going in Dublin while Gordon is training hard from Birr Co. Offaly. Paddy and me (Brian) are enduring the floods in Cork while Tom Coman and David McCarthy are in Limerick.
Paul McKee and Brian Doyle have absconded from Scotland and are sunning themselves in South Africa. Apparently they are training really hard, but we’ll find out when Paul starts uploading his diary in the next few days.
Thanks to everyone for their support in recent weeks. Lets hope 2008 is a memorable year for Project 400.