Slap Me With A Splintered Ruler

All I really want...

Is for everyone to remember.  Remember back to this great moment, when TV history was made in re-uniting Lance Armstrong and his estranged father, Neil Armstrong, on national TV.  After the events of this past weekend, this video is even more bittersweet.  I hope they made the most of their last six years together!

Do you remember?




The workout plan:
Group, dynamic, warm-up off the grass on the side of the park.

Then, I believe we are up to two, one-mile, repeats for the interval group that has been coinciding with me the last few weeks.  And, as always, we'll attempt to group others into like-minded packs.

Afterwards, if people want to bring a mat, or a towel, or just know that you might get your running clothes a bit dirty, we are going to start to do some post-run exercises on the same grass where we now warm up.  This week we'll just do some naive strength and core exercises (think push-ups and crunches) and within a couple more weeks we'll come up with some more optimal, modern, exercises once the people that "are into that" chime in with what they have learned and liked from P90x and other current trends.

Here is a good article and some reference material on How to Run Faster With Less Work.

I think this has something for all levels of TRYers - "Stop Chasing Super-High Mileage", "Run Fast When It Counts", but most importantly - "Run Harder and Easier".  With insights such as: 'make your easy days easier and your hard days harder', 'but...most runners...do most of their runs at a moderate effort'.  'The next time you run a hard workout, make it exactly that - hard.'

It finishes with 'You don't always have to train harder - you just have to train smarter to run faster.'

We've had a lot of good examples of TRYers putting in effort, smartly, over the past couple years.  There are a few of you I can think of who have really improved your running right before our eyes.  For you others who haven't bought in, or have let yourselves go the other way (like yours truly) - use them and their success stories to remind yourself that what we are doing works.  :-)