Track and Field Blogs - Trey Hardee

i get it... i need to be more attentive to where i place my feet!! monday afternoon, after my warm-up laps, i lost my footing where the grass meets the south apron at mike a. myers stadium. my foot rolled over and i sustained a mild ankle sprain, again! >:(

this is a far too common occurence for me. and as i lay on the track waiting for the training staff and andra manson to come to my rescue, i thought about why this always happens to me and what i'm doing to bring this upon myself. well, i let my mind wander from the truly important things. not concentrating on my steps and where i was going cost me my normal training for the weeks to come. i'll still put in the work with weights, general strength, and- oh yes- the rowing machine! (i think that's mario's (my coach) favorite form of punishment. he tells stories of back when he was a coach for minnesota and mitch potter used rowing workouts religiously the year he ran like 44.55sec) but if this injury had happened in april or june or that late in the season, then it's a totally different picture.

i'm going to start working on focussing harder when i'm just "jogging around" and i advise other accident prone people to open their eyes like me and stop saying "i'm just unlucky"... maybe you're just not concentrating like me!!