Saturday 12th of August

AM
Rest.

PM

- RACE-

1500 m in Kokkola.

*4:20.


*I did very well the first 300 - they went in 44. After that it was over.
*This is Day Zero.
*Why: because it's time to get my head to understand that what I've run in 1998 doesn't matter one bit in 2006.
*I behaved like an ass after the race - it was good that Glen saw it. He took me down to Earth for some hard facts:
*I've got a new body now. But the head seems to be the old dumb modell - with pressure from home audience and own expectations i was terrified going to the starting line (yesterday also) and just run with my head in vacuum waiting for the race to be over. I was not tired yesterday and even less so today - I ran like I was carrying some heavy load and looked like I was waiting for the firing squad after the finish line.
*The new deal is: I've been training for 2½ years and my expectations has to be of the kind.
*I will not race 800 nor 1500 until i feel hungry for it. While waiting for that to happen I will race everything else from 100 m to marathon.
*I will make some more points on this in a season-conclusive post later - perhaps late september.