Really bad headache during sprint training
I did sprint training this morning and it was going well except I kept getting a very sharp pain in my head at various points - I used to get this during basketball training when I was in my 20s. It turned out it was low sugar and drinking a sports drink or eating a Mars Bar fixed it. However, I had my usual porridge and banana with a smoothie this morning before sprints so I would have thought I would have enough energy on board - but not this time. So I’m going to try half a bottle of lucozade before the next sprints session to see how I get on. I had my Maximuscle Cyclone after the session but was still getting pains for at least 30 minutes afterwards.
I did improve a little on my times from last week though (roughly by 1 second for each set of sprints). We also did some acceleration training (just over a 10 metre track but concentrating on ‘bursting’ and keeping a low posture - as if I was a 100 metre sprinter - as if!).
I’m due out on a run at 6am tomorrow with a friend of mine who runs marathons - I’ve not run with him before (I usually prefer to just run by myself). However I think that a run once a week with him may be a good motivator for me - he likes to run early in the day so it’ll give me a good reason to get up in the morning. I’m doing upper body training on Wednesday so even if I do a hard run tomorrow it won’t affect the rest of my training.
Cheers, Mark