A Lean and Hungry Look

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Won Park City Marathon (tiny field, slow course, no purse) and Utah Grand Slam in 2006

Marathon: 2:37:04 (St. George 2009)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train for as solid a race in Boston 2011 as my schedule will allow.  Accept the fact that there isn't room in my life to train for a breakthrough performance and do the best I can under the circumstances.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Lose the all-or-nothing mentality and start using running as an outlet instead of an additional source of stress.

Personal:

I'm married with 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls) and live in Salt Lake City, where I work as a real estate attorney. 

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

"Julius Caesar," Act I, scene 2, 190-95

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50 minutes on the bike while watching "24".  Saw the chiropractor again today and he advised me to take a couple of weeks off of running.  The fact that my knees buckle due to back pain when I sneeze suggests an inflamed disc that needs a rest from the pounding.  

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50 minutes on the bike watching "24" in the basement. I set up an appointment today to meet with two of the Crossfit trainers at Brooke's gym to talk about incorporating kettle bells into my marathon training.

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First kettle bell workout with Dave at Crossfit NRG.  I feel incredibly uncoordinated, especially after learning the Turkish Get-up maneuver.  We spent about 45 minutes going through some of the basic exercises (two-arm swings, one-arm swings, goblin squats, and Turkish Get-ups), interspersed with some lunges and other exercises intended to help me make improvements to my form and understand better what muscles the exercises are targeting.  After that, Dave had me walk a very short lap while holding a kettle bell in my right hand above my head, repeated for my left.  I nearly fell over by the end of my truncated left-hand lap.  While sweating like a pig, Dave asked, "Are you ready for a workout?"  Oh, brother.

Fortunately, the workout was extremely short, but it also gave me extreme difficulty by the end.  I'll write it down here in hopes that I can look back in the not-too-distant future and laugh that it gave me any trouble at all.

15 two-arm swings

10 goblin squats

5 Turkish Get-ups (kettle bell in right hand)

Repeat but do the Turkish Get-ups with kettle bell in left hand

I believe the kettle bell was 26 lbs.

By the last two Turkish Get-ups with each arm, I could barely lift the stupid bell over my head, and I had to take a couple of short rests. When I finished, the mat was covered in sweat. The workout took about 5 minutes.

Hopefully the humiliation of being weak and uncoordinated in the beginning will prove worth it. My objective is to increase speed, strength, and durability in support of another attempt at 2:30 by next Fall. The plan is for Dave to work with me individually for the next several weeks until I have a solid handle on the exercises and form so that I can go with Brooke to the 6 a.m. WOD (Workout of the Day) class but do my own thing while the real beasts do the WOD. Dave is going to review my training plans for the past few marathons, compare it with his, and will then come up with a new training plan for Ogden that incorporates 1-2 days per week of kettle bells.

If nothing else, this will mix things up while providing a basis for some better all-around fitness, which I am sorely lacking as a result of my narrow focus on running for the past number of years.

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60 min on the trainer while watching 24.  Hamstrings still sore from kettle bell workout, but not too bad.

Spent about 4 hours last night and another 6 today tearing out acoustic tiles, acoustic walls, and drywall in our basement family room in preparation for a remodel.  Neck and shoulders are feeling it.

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