Tuesday Recreational Yogging: August and Everything After

(You know...it was a popular album once.)

This week: the "newer to intervals group" should shadow me again and we'll do 1/2 mile intervals. Should do three of them and perhaps do a final 1/4 mile interval "just for the fun of it". So, about a 4 mile run with 1.5 to 1.75 at speed. The others, can group up with Duerr or with other like-minded runners for your workout.

It seems like the dynamic warm-up is working well enough to keep it going. Not everyone likes every exercise but they go by quickly enough that it is easy to pick and choose which ones suit you. And a reminder to everyone (including myself because I have not been) is that it would be good to start to do a similar routine before all of your runs, so that your body gets used them as a trigger for getting into a running mindset and getting your blood flowing.

Something didn't seem right about the "three-point lunges", so I re-read them. And it turns out the written description is different than what the video describes and demonstrates. Shame on them! I believe the video is correct and that you should return to center between each move. (Lunge straight out, back to center, lunge to angle, back to center, lunge to the side.)

You can go back to the last couple blog entries to get the videos and the descriptions, but the moves that seem to make sense for us and keep us off the goose-poopie-ground are:

Walking lunges

Leg lifts

Butt kicks

Single leg directional hops

Hacky sack

Three point lunges

Toy soldier

Not necessarily in that order, but something like that to spread out the lunges and different types of stretches throughout.

Finally, after over a month delay, I'm ready to show off some photos from TRYers at the Boilermaker. These have all been on facebook feeds since facebook takes over everything, but it's nice to add some color to the blog plus give people who do not use facebook a chance to see a sampling. It turns out that Brightroom finally got smart and ruined their sample photos to the point of almost being unusable. So, almost all of these shots are from the Team Beef photographer. Who did a great job getting all but one of us near the finish line.

As a reminder, joining Team Beef was free and it gave access to some goodies and a very generous post-race luncheon. So, remember that when next year rolls around.

I don't think I've ever seen Kelly playing up to the crowd like this:

Gee, I wonder where she learned it from?

Jake proved that you could actually make the male Team Beef jersey look good:

Where Adam (and me later) gave good examples of it not looking so good. Hey, but we wore it!

And I chose a more zoomed out view of me. (For everyone else's sake.) Those two Erin's distract the eye enough anyway that there is no reason to check me out. Cheer for Erin(s):

And here is the sad state of what Brightoom has become. Apparently they got sick of not making money and giving away too high of a quality of sample shots. Notice Miss Wait buried under the watermarks while she was kind enough to give me and the Erin's a blocker during the busiest part of the race. Thanks again Sue and Erin T for making the thing I was most worried about very manageable:

The long tenured TRYers know that I usually end a series of race photos with a glamour shot. But, alas, that tradition is over. There is no way I'm digging though that mess of brighroom labels to pan for gold. So, instead, a different kind of glamour shot. The coxswain that led us to a 10th from last place finish at the Great Race a couple weekends ago: