Sub-6:00-am training runs are starting to become a habit for me. It’s so nice and peaceful at 5:20 am (i.e., you can really just relax and think about the tasks that lay ahead of you for the day), it’s an excellent wake up, and a great feeling of accomplishment. For today’s morning run, I ran over to Big Cottonwood Park and completed 3 laps of the softball complex before heading back home. The total distance of this run was 2.2 miles at an easy pace in my Vibram Five Fingers.
Following work, I headed straight home and ran up to the Salt Lake Running Company (round trip: 4.2 miles at an easy pace) to participate in a Chi Running clinic. Having read the book and watched the video, I’m a big practitioner of Chi Running. Mary Lindahl--a Master Chi Running Instructor--did an excellent job with the workshop and it really made me aware of how inefficient my running form still is; that is, I still have a lot of work to do in this area. My takeaways from this clinic are to work on running from my core (i.e., achieve the road coming to me feeling), learning what my optimal cadence is, and watching more video of myself running (i.e., Mary did an awesome job of identifying what you need to look for when you watch yourself run).
Finally for my non-running workout, I completed 200 sit-ups, 32 push-ups, 60 (30, 16 lbs) curls, and 20 (50 lbs) reverse curls. | 