Moving through February

Hopefully you spent January working up towards running for at least 25 minutes at a time. If you are having difficulty, I suggest checking out the Couch to 5K Running Plan here.

I would highly recommend exploring cross training activities this month to see which ones you like and which ones fit your schedule and your budget. Cross training is vital to injury prevention, motivation and endurance. Muscles catch on really quick so we must keep changing up the activity if we expect changes in our physical abilities. Check out the January blog post here for some of my favorite cross training workouts. One I would add to that list is a strength training class like Body Pump or something similar. Body Pump is one hour of strength training using light weights or your own body weight at high reps. You WILL remember every single one of your muscles after this workout. I suggest a light run or yoga after you do something like this for the first time to flush your lactic acid and prevent serious soreness on the second post-workout day. Body Pump is offered at the Castle Rock rec center (check schedule here) and a similar class is offered at the Parker rec center (see link under resources).

Continue this month with maintaining or working up to running 25 minutes at a time at least 3 times a week and work in some cross training days as well. Focus on nutrition to fuel your workouts. Garbage in means garbage out. Check out Sheri Rose Shepherd's Fit for My King February Challenge here for some good nutritional guidance and encouragement in the Lord.

We’ll start meeting for group runs in March! Yeah! And remember, if you are joining in on the Bolder Boulder 10K, we would like to register as a group by February 28th! See post here for more race info.

Also, on Sunday, March 14, 2010 is the Running of the Green Lucky 7K (4 miles) in Lodo! I hear this is a blast! Join in on the fun! Register here.