Since I had to pick up my Fight For Air Climb race packet at the American Lung Association of Utah before work, I had the opportunity to get in a weekday morning run. Consequently, shortly after I woke up, I head out for a run up to the Brickyard Shopping Plaza by way of 1300 East. I circled around the Smith-Kiln Chimney and back down 1100 East, up to 1300 East and to home by cutting through Big Cottonwood Park. In total, I was to knock out 5.2 miles at an easy pace.
Following work, I took the Trax train up to the University of Utah and jogged up to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to hear a speak by Dr. Jeff Spencer who was the team doctor for all seven of Lance Armstrong’s Tour De France victories. In summary, an extremely interesting presentation that covered many concepts which are important in running and life. In particular, I thought his first phase of developing Adaptive Fitness that called for stabilizing was particularly important for distance running; that is, Dr. Spencer emphasized that the Tour can be lost but not won (e.g., by letting your emotions get the best of you, taking too many risks, being overly conservative) during this stabilizing phase. Anyway, jogging 1.5 miles to and from the Institute completed my running for the day.
While watching the reruns of Apolo Anton Ohno’s final races of at least for the Vancouver Games, I completed my non-running workout that consisted of 300 sit-ups and 30 push-ups. | 