Circuit Day1
SO, our snow 'storm" came in as expected jusyt as practice started. The guys did 5 miles at aerobic pace adn came back looking like mini snowmen. I had a sprinter girl show up and since she had noone to run with (AND it was her first day...) I opted to run with her (always trying to convert the sprinters when the other coaches are not looking...
Yuck on mileage today, but hopefully made a good connection.
Did the machine 1.1 from jay johnson, but instead of running 700m at tempo, we did 2 minutes of "pretend" jump roping in between sets. With jumping rope being somewhat boring and difficult for my sport-challenged athletes, we play a sort of follow the leader and change up our jump styles every 20 seconds or so. The football players and wrestlers kept looking into the gym and finally asked why we were dancing...My poor boys--pretty sure they hate this more than they hate when I make them man up and skip like girls!
Will definitely be sore tomorrow! Good stuff!
Met with Matt Hajny (just back from Disney where he placed 17th running 2:47 AFTER breaking his ankle, having surgery to put screws in said ankle, getting thrown from a bike thereby messing up his hip AND getting food poisoning about 2 weeks out from said marathon...) Can't wait for this training cycle--I mean what ELSE could go wrong?
Still trying to pick a marathon--possibly for May or June! |