Friday Thoughts 81
Greetings! Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Thoughts.
MDW
Schedule reminder: closed Friday PM/Monday for normal classes.
Join me on Monday at 8am for a holiday weekend workout. This will be open gym style — no sign up required, come do one of your workouts, or do a variation of Murph or the Kendra workout.
Crunch Time
I’m three weeks out from the Mount Washington Road Race. I’m feeling strong and fit and looking forward to another year of running up the Rock Pile. My workouts lately have consisted of running up a lot of steep hills — a lot more than I did last year. We’ll see if it pays off in a few weeks.
FAST Mile
Consider this your first teaser for our summer program: The Fast Mile. A fast mile is one of the coolest things your body can do, but it doesn’t get nearly the love something like the marathon gets. This started with a question; what if everyone was more interested in running a fast mile versus a slow marathon? How would that change peoples’ running injuries, technique, fitness, body composition and even relationship with running? It’s an interesting thought experiment, and one we’re going to play out in real life.
The program will start mid June and run for 8 weeks. Two to three days a week of running, focusing on technique, speed, and stamina — running faster than you typically do. If you do have longer race goals, this program will pair nicely with a longer run or two each week. It could also be great preparation to build up speed before starting a training plan for a fall race.
Gym Diaries
This is the most awesome strength and conditioning session I’ve seen from an athlete in a while. This track and field athlete even mixes in some of Frans Bosch’s cleans to the box. They look so smooth and super athletic.
How to NOT TRAIN for Skiing
NBC’s reels usually won’t repost here, so I’ll be surprised if this works.
This is a clip of skier Franny Smith captioned, “Training For Ski Season is CRAZY,” and it’s a video of her jumping from stability ball to stability ball in what is a circus act, NOT how to train for ski season. This is a silly trick, not real training.
Sprinters
More love for the track athletes training like this.
Floating
What an incredible jump!
This is the future
Thanks for reading.
—Justin Miner
@justinminergain