Wednesday is the Day!

So after taking a long 2 weeks off and missing the first few weeks of training for my first half marathon of the year. (Martian--April 2nd) I am ready and ok'd to start running Wednesday morning. Yahoo!!!! With the big winter storm coming the YMCA treadmill will be calling my name. Kim my running coach...lol...will have a nice speed workout for me to handle my first day back.
Oh how I have missed the concentration of landing on my forefoot, counting my candence and reseting my self. I just ripped my training guide out Women's Running Magazine today. I am jumping right to week 4..god help me. The guide is titled "Your fastest Half Marathon". So here we go...the training begins for my first sub 2 hour run. I have tried and tried to do this numerous times so I am taking a different training approach! I am hoping it will work! So here is to 40 more hours of rest....and then let the running begin! sara

Here we go again!!!

So very excited (anxious, nervous, etc) to be training for my 2nd marathon that starts this week.  Hey, that officially makes me a "marathoner" right?  Anyway, this go around it will be a little bit different because I will be learning and practicing a little something called "good form running".

Good form running. Hmmm.  You would think I would have it down pat.  As a group fitness instructor at the local YMCA, I teach (well, more like "coach") 4 to 5 running classes a session.  I should be the epitimy of "good form running", yes?

Uh..no.  I've always known I am a bit off on my running form.  My hands usually wind up somewhere close to my knees,  fingers spread out.  I think of it as my "prance".  And then there is my signature "leg kick back".  I've had friends tell me that they could tell it was me from behind by my rear round house kick that I do with my leg.  Not to mention that my legs are about 3 times the size of my torso.  Excellent for a hurdler or a sprinter I am sure.  Not so great for the average Jane runner who has the grace of a just born fawn.

Well, I am hoping to change all of that. You see, through Playmakers and Good Form Running I am part of a team training for various events (mine being the marathon, but we've got 1/2 marathoners, 10Kers, triatheletes) all trying to better our times by improving our running form through the 4 points of GFR (good form running):  Posture, Midfoot, Cadance and Lean.
Totally looking forward to it...hope you'll join us for the ride :o)

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