What did you do tonight from 6:30pm-8pm?
I don't know about you, but this is what we were up to tonight for track. For each of these drills, we had to do the drill listed below down the track straightaways, and "recover" by jogging around the turns:
• Heel and toe walking - We look like a bunch of ducks, but apparently these prevent shin splints
• Low skips and high skips - I sing the Smurfs theme song in my head
• Butt kicks and high knees - Their words, not mine
• Side steps and grapevines - I thought I was a good dancer until I tried the grapevines on the track...
• Lunges and sprints - Like we said last week, it really is a recovery when you get to job after lunges
• Repeat!!!
Tonight definitely felt much better than last week. We are absolutely getting stronger each week. And this is hard for us to believe too, but it actually gets easier as the night goes on. In the beginning everything feels stiff and sore and it is hard to breath. It is counterintuitive but it seems as though it takes about a mile, or in the case of track night four drills or laps, to feel warmed up. Once I get into the groove the running is much less painful.
I've included some photos from track night two weeks ago. You can see Sean on the right hand side get regulated by Coach Terry on his form, and more documentation of my beet red face - shocker. Yet more documentation in a photo from our Half Moon Bay run a few weeks ago. Sean and Angela managed to look fantastic somehow, this was taken at about mile four.
