new kinda workout
Chris is either going to give me crap or laugh (we traded a comment and emails this morning)!
I was considering not running for a second straight day following a very taxing 18 miler on Saturday and an equally taxing week leading up to it.
As it got closer to lunch, I began looking for a good reason to run and remembered that often, when my legs feel worn, a light run is sometimes better than pure rest. That was enough of a reason for me so I planned on a light run to loosen things up.
But things change…
I decided to have some fun with the run which I still planned on keeping under 20 minutes.I decided to do some speed/form drills I’ve been reading about.
I set my watch for 30 second intervals and started with a 5 minute warm-up and then began doing some toe running for 30 seconds at a time. For each interval, I ran very lightly on my toes and lifted my knees very high. I tried to pretend my legs were like springs. I did five of those with five 30 second intervals of slow, normal running in between each. Then I did a deviation where I did three intervals where I would kick my heels at my butt – again with the same rest in between with each interval being 30 seconds long. Then I did two sets of long hop running for the same amount of time. I’d hop as far as I could from one leg to another maximizing air time and stride length. That got me back to the Macdonald Hotel stairs (all 220 of them!) where I ran up the first half with springy feet one step at at time and the second half with springy feet two steps at a time.
Wow! That was some 20 minute workout! It was also great fun…
…but did I ever get some weird looks!
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I’d have joined them but, in the same time, pretty jealous about your exercise (always keeping in mind 
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Tuesday July 27, 2004 @
Mark hopping down the road. Now that’s something I would have liked to have seen!