Some days you just have to run...

Today was one of those days where you feel like doing something active, and you just randomly pick what it is that you wanted to do. I worked this morning and rode my bike to work, a quick 2 minute spin down the road, and after doing that, I wasn't in the mood for a nice bike ride this afternoon. I was, however, itching to get on the track again for some good old jogging & sprinting intervals. Like most workouts lately, I have been going at it with an 'As I Feel' mode of doing them. Like last weekend, I did a crazy 20 minute kettlebell Cleans-only workout. Today was another one of those days, where I did some 100m jog, 100m sprint intervals for a mile on the track, then a half-mile of walk 100, jog 100, stride 100, sprint 100. After that, I walked for 100 and then sprinted another 100, then walked over to a hill in the nearby city park to do some more sprints. I really don't know how long this hill was, about 3/4's of a block I suppose. I did 4 of those, and on the 4th one, I kept going up the hill that was on the next block, up to the highway. I walked home in 2 blocks, and that was my workout. It really felt good just to get out and do something at random. I'm finding at this point in my life, after doing many workouts and trying so many others, I am liking this 'Randomization' approach to my workout routines. Perhaps you can try it for a week or two, and give your body a refreshing renewal. This next week on Monday, I start a new 6 week phase of my training schedule, to help me get tuned up for softball this summer. My workouts will be short, because I'm finding out just how wiped out I can get somedays with my day job of detailing cars. (I took care of 30 cars/trucks last week alone, washing 29 of them, the one I didn't wash was a semi-finished detail that just needed to have the carpets dried out, before it was finished off with protective plastic on the floors.) Anyways, I plan to do the workouts first thing in the morning to get a good jumpstart on my day right away.

One more update: The "7 Secrets of Super Strength & Speed!" collection is just-about-there...I venture to say within a week, this valuable package will be all-set to go.

Stay Strong, & "Run so as to win."

Coach Rick