This is part three of the series, with the Lunge Matrix & Lateral Lunge and the Aerobic Work WU shown previously as Part 1 and Part 2. Feel free to write in with questions and I’ll definitely get to them by the end of the week.
Anatomy of Workout 003
The first thing Sara does when she shows up at the track is the Lunge Matrix (LM) and Lateral Lunge (LL) warm-ups. On this day, she then went for a 30 min easy run following the LM and LL. The LM demonstrated here is a watered down version of physical therapist Gary Gray’s work – http://www.grayinstitute.com
Anatomy of a Workout 002
As promised, the first installment of this week’s workout.
This is an introduction to a video series showing the warm-up, workout and HM at the end the workout. The workout is “The Machine 1.1” which is simply a circuit with 700m at 6:00 pace followed immediately by 2-3 minutes of General Strength (GS), then a 70m jog to the next 700m repeat. This workout was conducted March 17th, 2009 at Fairview HS in Boulder, CO; athlete is Sara Vaughn.
Posture
Last summer I had lunch with one of the best HS coaches in the state of Colorado. The name of a local runner, who also happened to be a national-class runner, came up and the HS coach noted, “he’s really good, but he needs to work on his form.”
“How’d you know?” blurted the HS coach, “have you seen him run?”
I had not, but my guess that his problem is his forward lean is correct over 90% of the time (at least when a coach thinks a particular runner should work on their form). [Read more…]
Fall Running Thoughts
One of my favorite memories as a collegiate track athlete came one fall. Following a cross country workout my coach, Mark Wetmore, commented on the light and how it was different than just a few days earlier and how it reminded him of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “There’s a certain slant of light.” He then went on to talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), simply making the point that we all sense the “slant of light” and that for many people it has consequences. What’s my point? If you’re in the northern hemisphere, chances are that you’ll soon be dealing with inclement running weather as well as fewer daylight hours to get your run in (though I know that many people are forced to get their daily run in during the dark hours). Thus, my suggestion is twofold.
First, make sure that you not only find the time to run the next couple of weeks, but that you fully appreciate the air, the smells and the environment around you, even if you don’t like running in your current climate’s weather. That brings me to my second point—you as a runner have a unique opportunity to experience weather and nature all year long. Now, I must admit that I hate both sub-freezing long runs in January as well as any days where I’m running and it’s over 85 degrees (obviously I’d struggle to live a lot of place with that second one), but I truly enjoy the opportunity to run in all of the conditions that my climate has to offer.
I’ll be coming back to this idea in a few weeks with training tips especially for cold weather training. In the mean time you can enjoy these photos of Fall from various parts of the northern hemisphere (from the Boston Globe’s Big Picture page).
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