What works for me.

I have been looking at my times that I have gotten from the '08 track season and the '08 xc season to try to figure out why my times go up and down as much as they do. This is what I found.
I'm not saying any of this stuff really effects me I just found it interesting.

Length of my hair:

XC: My top 3 races all happend within 2 weeks of getting my hair cut. I got my hair cut twice this season. The longest my hair was all season was districts and that was also my worse race.

Track: I started the season with basically no hair (swimming) and my season started great. I leveled out in the middle of the season and then judging by photos cut my hair and got two prs within the next 2 weeks.

New Shoes:

XC- Over then summer I ran a 9 mile run on a mountain (xc camp) in under a hour. This was the first time I ran in those shoes (stupid idea but it made me run fast).
XC2- First time I wore my new spikes I ran a grass pr.

Track- I didn't get any new shoes during the season. I used my old xc spikes for track. My training shoes already had a few runs in them before the season started but they were run that all I was doing was testing out my injuried leg so they weren't fast.



I have a few more but I have to go.

I had the same thing happen to me with the hair. The two races after I got my hair cut were my two fastest.

i think you may be on to something about the hair lol

haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

xc running gal wrote:haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

And RWS, the last part makes sense, almost everybody runs better in new shoes.

AudienceOfOne wrote:And RWS, the last part makes sense, almost everybody runs better in new shoes.

+1, I set a 50 second 3200 PR when I got flats haha

AudienceOfOne wrote:

xc running gal wrote:haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

Think of how much faster she'd be without 10 lbs of hair?

runner_dude wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:

xc running gal wrote:haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

Think of how much faster she'd be without 10 lbs of hair?

It's not 10 pounds, especially the parts she's be cutting off.

AudienceOfOne wrote:

runner_dude wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:

xc running gal wrote:haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

Think of how much faster she'd be without 10 lbs of hair?

It's not 10 pounds, especially the parts she's be cutting off.

lol, i bet hers is worth at least 1 second.

AudienceOfOne wrote: Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

As soon as I typed the hair thing I thought about her.

Dang it! I had like 2 more things that I thought of and now I can't think of what they were.

I knew I should have cut my hair before State!!! lol
I was so going to too! jeesh! My hair is so friggen heavy and thick! errg! Oh well...track season I'll cut it.

I don't think it is the weight as much of the fact that it gets in my face and annoys me.

^same, especially when it's windy, my ponytail just slaps against my face and stuff

i like your new avatar pic

I think the biggest thing about it is the mental aspect. When your hair is long there hasn't been a change in a while but after it's been cut you feel faster.

AudienceOfOne wrote:

xc running gal wrote:haha, wow. good observations.

maybe i should get my hair cut like as short as a boy
my ponytail weighs like a million pounds

Doesn't slow Jordan Hassay down.

thats what i was just thinking

new shoes always give me a ton of confidence.

PCNQtrack wrote:i like your new avatar pic

+1

alex-likes-running wrote:

PCNQtrack wrote:i like your new avatar pic

+1

thanks

ever since I've started running I've had somewhat long hair...maybe if I grow it out more and train with it a few years and cut it off I'll be light as a feather!

lwc wrote:ever since I've started running I've had somewhat long hair...maybe if I grow it out more and train with it a few years and cut it off I'll be light as a feather!

Lwc, where in florida did you use to live?

I lived in Pensacola.