Today, December 28th 2011, we had first indoor season competition. It didn't go very well, I didn't manage to show how I trained. My run was out of control, my plant was non existent, and hence the result very low, 520. I'll come back next weekend with hopefully much better technique and with it a lot higher result.
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Now I'm in the middle of our base training. Jarno is joining me for 10 days so we can jump together a bit. We started with a 12 step practice and we were both doing rather well, fixing technique and all. Due to many difficulties in technical workouts I am a bit behind on the goals, but it doesn't look all that bad. I have a bit of fear of high grip at the moment and I'm trying to get rid of that. Grip of 455 from 10 steps is not that bad either, but from 12 steps I should raise that to about 465, and I'm currently at 460. I am on a soft pole still, trying to get on a bigger one next practice. However, I can make 510-520 on this pole already, so that's not a bad sign for this time of the year at all. I am also a bit behind in other aspects of training, for example I'm not as strong as I used to be, mostly because I missed a lot of lifting sessions during my recovery from the broken ankle. Also speed test was a bit of a disappointment, but it's too early still to really test that. Surprisingly, bounding is going alright, I can almost reach my best results in standing long jump and triple jump. All in all, I am still on track for a decent indoor season, but I'll need to get to a higher level for outdoors if I want to reach the Olympic standard. Slovenian athletes have contracts for support throughout the year. Unfortunately, we need money for training camps in December and April, but these payments are usually done almost a year later than that. It kinda works out, but for the next year. Well, it would work out fine, if we actually got the money we were supposed to. The last payment was supposed to be this week based on our performance in the season. Yes, you read correctly, how much money you get for preparing for the season is actually dependent on how well you perform. Some would call that a magic circle - without money to prepare, how can you perform? Anyway, it seems that I underperformed this season and am not getting even the low amount I was actually supposed to get. I won't go into details on the amount, but altogether it would not be enough even for the plane ticket for my training camp. And I'm not getting even that fully, because obviously, if you broke your ankle and still have a decent season, with a high placement at European cup (almost the best on the team) and reaching finals at a big competition, that's just not gonna make it. And the even worse part is that so many that did worse than me this season, got full payments and of a lot higher amounts. Unfortunately, the federation seems to be working in the direction that will make things even worse. On top of that, I also broke one pole during the last few weeks of training, and have no money to replace it. Ok, still trying to train for the Olympic year..should be fun. I started working a bit more with Jak Rogel this year, he takes care of my training plans as well as writing me a proper diet. I've already lost some weight but gained strength and condition. I started jumping this week, from 6 steps. It's going good, I am able to make 460-470 with a grip height of 430 and with a 460/18.0 pole. I ended my season with a win in Brugnera, Italy. What I achieved this year: - National champion and a champion of Slovenian Cup All of this after breaking my ankle after winning a competition in Vienna in Februrary! I'm looking forward to starting my next season, injury free, with a goal set to London! |
