Ok, now that I'm going to be more consistently running, I'm going to more consistently blog. Today the group met at Centennial Park in Riverton. We warmed up together for a little ways, then we broke up into two groups, the ones wanting to do real speed, and the others who wanted to ease into speed. I chose the ease into speed group. We ran for a while, then threw in some faster pick-ups. We made it back to the park, then ran the loop again, this time just running, no faster pick-ups. I was running along, enjoying talking with Michelle and Kelli, then here comes Eric running fast, so I took up with him and we pushed it back to the park. It was kind of fun to kind of open things up.
Because my main goal now is to get my form "smoother and more efficient," I think I'm going to give myself a grade on that each time. When I first start out running, things feel tight and not very smooth and efficient. But as I warm up, things get better. Today I concentrated on keeping my upper body relaxed. That is a constant struggle because I've programmed myself over years to be way too tight there. I would give myself a B for that, not as tight as I've been lately, but it still needs work. I also worked on the feeling of gliding back on the "kick-back" part of the stride. It felt better as the run went along, and by the end was actually pretty good. Higher knees still needs work. Overall a B for form for today's run. |