Central’s boys’ track and field team has made the most of the last four weeks of their indoor season to prepare for their spring season, which starts after spring break.

Junior Trey Sato, who primarily runs long distances like the two-mile, mile, and 800, has started training for his second-to-last outdoor season by participating in the indoor season.

“I would say that winter running is way more important than you [think] because before [this year] I did basketball, so I didn’t have the time to train in between cross country and winter track [for the spring season]…It’s a long time without actually going against the competition…I think that’s probably been one of the reasons that I’ve done so well so far,” Sato said, “Then also seeing where you are for spring, it’s a lot of building into it and then spring is the actual time to have all your goals.”

Sato has been working effectively throughout his winter season, and a daily practice for him and his team generally consists of an active warm-up, mobility circuits, drills, and stretching before completing between around five to ten miles of running. Around two times a week, they have dedicated workout days where as a team they close into their times for their distance runs in order to meet their set goals.

Still in the midst of the winter season, Sato has already settled on his predictions and hopes for himself and the team for their upcoming indoor and outdoor achievements.

“I’ll definitely say winning conference, both indoor and outdoor, then winning sectionals and placing in State as top three or four hopefully,” Sato said, “I think we have a really good team this year. We could have a lot of people go [to State] like last year. It was fun to go [last year], but I think it’d be even better with a bunch more people from the team [could come].”

As for his personal objectives for the spring season, he hopes to get a “4:10 for the mile. Hopefully around 9:00 for the two-mile and then for the 800, like a 1:54.”

“Most sports are one game but track, there are throws, jumps, pole vault, distance, sprints, so you get a variety of stuff to see and watch. Then not only that, it combines a lot of different groups of people together into one team where they’d normally be separate” Sato stated.