People that do exceptional things or develop their talents are always inspiring.
Here is a vid of David Belle; the man who started the Parkour revolution.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Half Marathon Update/fore foot strike
Well,
Jon and I participated in the Mississippi Track Club half marathon a few weekends ago.
It was a blast. You would be surprised at the different types of people that show up for one of those events. My favorite was a man with a pot belly running with what looked like a fat dog. Never caught 'em. Most people just seemed like ordinary folks with only a few looking like "runners".
We took it real easy the first 10 miles or so. The goal for this event was simply to finish. I did stretch my legs a bit at the 10 mile mark to complete my first event in 2:21 for 152nd place. Not bad. It was a solid middle of the pack performance. To be "competitive" I need to shave almost an hour off of that time...maybe sometime in the future.
Since last weekend I have been stuffing myself and not running at all. I gave my self a week off to just relax. To be honest I was a little worn out and it took the whole week to recover. Christmas is this weekend.
My running goals for the next month are just to put some more miles on my new stride and slowly start making the conversion to the puma's that the Pose Techniques prefer. It seems like a good compromise for huarachis. My initial running shoe was a New Balance trainer. Well, It was not a running shoe per se. I picked it because the heel was not much thicker than the pad on the front of the shoe. It was a compromise between the flat Puma and traditional Nike style running shoe.
I'll buy a pair of the Puma's after Xmas and start doing my shorter runs in them. Want to be fully transitioned by next summer. The tendons, bones, muscles of the foot take a good bit of time to strengthen esp. after a lifetime of modern shoes.
After running my first half with the forefoot strike I was left will some simple calf tightness and of course some muscle stiffness that was gone after 2 or 3 days.
Jon and I participated in the Mississippi Track Club half marathon a few weekends ago.
It was a blast. You would be surprised at the different types of people that show up for one of those events. My favorite was a man with a pot belly running with what looked like a fat dog. Never caught 'em. Most people just seemed like ordinary folks with only a few looking like "runners".
We took it real easy the first 10 miles or so. The goal for this event was simply to finish. I did stretch my legs a bit at the 10 mile mark to complete my first event in 2:21 for 152nd place. Not bad. It was a solid middle of the pack performance. To be "competitive" I need to shave almost an hour off of that time...maybe sometime in the future.
Since last weekend I have been stuffing myself and not running at all. I gave my self a week off to just relax. To be honest I was a little worn out and it took the whole week to recover. Christmas is this weekend.
My running goals for the next month are just to put some more miles on my new stride and slowly start making the conversion to the puma's that the Pose Techniques prefer. It seems like a good compromise for huarachis. My initial running shoe was a New Balance trainer. Well, It was not a running shoe per se. I picked it because the heel was not much thicker than the pad on the front of the shoe. It was a compromise between the flat Puma and traditional Nike style running shoe.
I'll buy a pair of the Puma's after Xmas and start doing my shorter runs in them. Want to be fully transitioned by next summer. The tendons, bones, muscles of the foot take a good bit of time to strengthen esp. after a lifetime of modern shoes.
After running my first half with the forefoot strike I was left will some simple calf tightness and of course some muscle stiffness that was gone after 2 or 3 days.
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