1.5 miles of trotting on mostly pavement- followed by some playground action!
You should probably put up a video for others who want to try this...as I could barely move after cross training with hay bales the day before.
Yah, it's great reading about your active work life Rick, and Laura's ambitious yard work/gardening. The best I can muster is a sit-stand computer desk and a few massage tools scattered about on the office floor. I did get some furniture glides though, for getting back to doing the splits during breaks.You should probably put up a video for others who want to try this...
I'm back. After my Bryce race I have done almost nothing but work and garden for the last 2 weeks. I did have a nice hike with David and Jen and one 4.5 mile barefoot run around the farm. Started back up today with a work run of 4.5 barefoot miles around the farm checking the irrigation systems and moving hoses on tree rows. The run really loosened things up as I could barely move after cross training with hay bales the day before. Considering the rough conditions (dry stickers, sticks, hay stubble, gravel) my feet were not sore at all after. I am really pleased with my foot conditioning this summer even though my bf mileage is not too high. My goal is to do all of my shorter runs barefoot no matter what the conditions are, slowly work back into some pavement running, and continue to do my long runs and hill training shod.
My scapulae are not where they should be. Might have something to do with almost being spun off the merry-go-round yesterday by a certain "newbie" - which basically made my shoulders a bit disconcerted. Anyway, then I proceeded to drink too much beer and take too many antihistamines, which caused me to sleep in one "wrong" position all night -this, causing my sternum, and therefore clavicle, and therefore hips, to become majorly misaligned. Sigh. But I managed to go work out in the gym for 1.5 hours -all sorts of weight machines, free weights, weighted bars, climbing machine, medicine ball. I was excited to see, that at least sitting, I am able to leg press my own weight. I decided to get a personal trainer for a month, but can't get one yet, as my mom is having health issues and I have no idea what my schedule will be like for awhile. Been doing lots of sternum rolling with the pipe and butt cheek rolling with the baseball, since then.
Yesterday (Tuesday for me), I did 10.5km (6.5mi), including 4x30" fast intervals....Today I just finished 11.3km (7mi). At some point I took the wrong turn and ended up in a 'cul-de-sac'...My only option was heading back, or go through someone's garden (at the bottom of a hill)...Took the second option, and had to go through some very tough/hardy plant bed...Not sure how I did, this, but managed to hurt the top of my left foot and the inside of my arch !!!....Now soaking it in a bucket of ice cold water, hopefully no damage done !!
What are you trainung for?Ran 7 miles at 4:30 am, 75 Deg. F., 83 %rh. thunder and lightning the whole run. It only sprinkled on me the last mile. heard a few owls, saw a few rabbits. Great run!!
This is the start of week 9 of training for me.
20k barefoot runon Sunday.
1hr interval session today - mix of barefoot and minimalist
I got no exercise in yesterday as I forced myself to take a day off due to the pain from running in vff's the day before. Also found out yesterday that I did indeed earn my first degree so went to eat a celebratory dinner and may have over done it a bit. Will hopefully get my long run in today along with the gym to burn the excess off. Yesterday when I weighed myself I was down another pound (seems to be coming off quickly now that my foot/ankle is doing better) making it nearly 6 lbs that I've lost in the last two weeks. Woohoo this is a GREAT week!
6.18 miles in my Lunas. I felt fantastic! I avg'd 11:14 pace over the whole run, but the 5th mile I ran a 10:22 and then the 6th mile I ran a 10:33 while pushing the stroller uphill! I am really feeling strong and feel like I've really gotten control over the muscle tightness. Was going to workout in the gym too, but got a little later of a start because my son slept in a bit this morning and then the last half mile of our run the gods decided I wasn't having enough fun so they opened up the flood gates and let the rain just flat dump. It normally doesn't rain that hard at all here, but this was fun and I was all smiles ear to ear.
I dunno Dama, I'm happy right now at my little over 6 miles. Not gonna push to increase distance yet. First I want to focus on losing weight, then we'll see about adding distance once the weight is lost. I really believe the extra 20-30 pounds does contribute to injury.Alright Nick! you're becoming such a runner and very soon you'll be running marathons. Way to go!
I dunno Dama, I'm happy right now at my little over 6 miles. Not gonna push to increase distance yet. First I want to focus on losing weight, then we'll see about adding distance once the weight is lost. I really believe the extra 20-30 pounds does contribute to injury.