Happy Columbus Day! This morning I ran down to Liberty Park to attend a two-hour Chi Running workshop. As I stated before on this blog, I’m a big believer in Chi Running (i.e., I have read the book and watched the video) and I have found it to be the most effective program for improving my running form. Consequently, I was extremely excited to attend this workshop. Some of the many takeaways I had from this very informative workshop include the techniques of getting into the Wu-Chi stance by bring your forearms together (the “C” image), having various degrees (at least four) to your forward running lean, pealing your foot off the ground, lifting your foot up so it clears the opposite ankle, experiencing the y-chi sensation being pulled forward on the run, keeping your arms at a 90-degree angle and wrists straight, relaxing your shoulders and imagining they are headlights while running straight forward, and performing various T’ai-chi stretching exercises. After the workshop, I took the long way home and ran by Westminster College in order to practice the Chi-Running concepts that I just learned. The total distance of this run was 12.2 miles at an easy pace.
This afternoon, in order to get a couple of hours in studying for the CFA, I went on a second set of runs by jogging up to Westminster’s Library and back. The total distance of these two easy-pace runs was 1.8 miles.
For my non-running workout, I completed 200 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, and 10 metronomes.
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