Hitting your stride (T minus 5 days)
I’ve heard people say that one of the most difficult things about training for a particular event is to hit your peak performance at just the right time.
I’m 5 days away from what may be, for me at least, a career deciding fitness test. Along with 39 of the country’s top Futsal referees, including our two current FIFA referees, I will hit the track at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra to take the FIFA level Futsal Referees Fitness Test.
That test starts with a 1km run, to be completed in under 4 minutes, and today I broke a personal record and came very close to hitting that mark.
4 minutes and 2 seconds. 1000 sweaty metres. No stopping, jogging, walking… accelerating all the way to finish the last 200 metres in a sprint.
But this, whilst an achievement, is merely the beginning… Read the rest of this entry »
