An Open Mind

Yup, it’s a rare and wonderful thing.

AND it actually happened with your Coach today. I took the big plunge and went to try “run the stadium”. This is something that I have bad mouthed for years, as being detrimental to a person’s running technique.  While I still do not favor it as a means for improving one’s running, I do NOW see it as viable means for strength training.

It was my recent struggle with downhill running at the Flagstaff Endurance Run-hosted by the very nice crew at http://www.aravaiparunning.com/  -that made me consider the stadium run.  Since our part of Florida is lacking in decent hills, I have been trying to come up with a training method that will replicate the DF (difficulty factor) of downhill running in real mountains. This could be it for now- other than driving 7hrs to north Georgia.

Remember Train Smarter and keep an Open Mind.