Objective: easy/recovery, ending with 5 x 8 second hill sprints Conditions at 5:22 am: 40F, raining, wind 5-15 mph (estimate). Mostly bare streets with patches of slush and slush/snow covered sidewalks. 20 min. core & strength work
It snowed and blew like crazy from about 4 PM until I went to bed. Sometime in the night it turned to rain, but not before filling up my driveway again. Arg! The rain is melting it, thank goodness. Nice run today. My legs don't really feel any effects from the long run but I took it slowly anyway. On the hill sprints I tried to concentrate on my hamstrings and heel lifts. I'm a little obsessed with heel lifts at the moment. Such a small adjustment but it speeds up my pace by a huge amount. I guess I'm making another New Year's Resolution: to get in the habit of lifting the heels and stop being a "shuffler." My push up program is still going so slowly. It's very difficult for me to get through even 6 or 7 with full form. Just out of curiosity I tried the girl-form pushups this morning and found I could do 20 before I started feeling the strain. The full form are so much more difficult, and they work the core as well. I may decide to mix them with girl pushups for a while though, just because I am getting kind of discouraged. With 5 sets of reps, I don't think it would hurt to make one of them "girly style- as many as possible." I'm afraid if I don't feel any success I'll give up on it; they're not fun.
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