From high school to my days at The University of Tennessee thru my professional career as an athlete in Athletics, I've always known and valued the importance of having a training partner. Life is sooooo much easier when you have someone next to you during training, pushing each other to get the best out of every training session.
While over in Europe competing, unless you are fortunate to have the same competition schedule or base as the people you train with, many times you find yourself training alone. It is during many of those times, you have to muster up every ounce of motivation and get the work done. Especially when your coach gives you a workout that makes you scrunch up your face.
This past Sunday I had a pretty tough one, speed hurdles over 12, and I have to say...I found the motivation to get out on the track, and I really pushed myself and gave all I had...but the times and the speeds at which I would have liked to hit this time in the season were not there. I was fortunate enough (or maybe not so fortunate, depending on how you look at it), to get some locals at the track to film my 1st 3 reps (even though they didn't seemed all that excited...well one out of the 3 ppl I asked was more inclined to assist me :). I just downloaded and reviewed the tape of my reps, which is why today's blog is dedicated to training partners. I'm glad I got the reps in, and on hindsight it wasn't that bad (maybe lol) considering this is the 1st time I did this workout in yrs, so I can only get better from here right?!?! Ans: Right!
So Shout out to my training partners...those that are in my group now :
Ryan Moseley, Coach Reider, Joice Maduaka, Me, Angelo Taylor
Me'Lisa Barber, Justin Gatlin, Steve Flemming, Walter Davis, Dwight Phillips, Travis Padgett
Justin Gatlin, Danielle Carruthers, Eboni Floyd-Broadnax, Steve Flemming
Not pictured (Perdita Felicien, Nichole Demby, Chelsea Hammond)
And the friends I trained with in the past:
Jared MacLeod, Eric Mitchum, Josh Walker, Me
Eric Mitchum, Me, Derrick Atkins
Good Ol' Rocky Top
