Hills, Cold and Goats

I’ve posted the midweek workouts and a lot of you are starting hills. Some a little late because we stayed with the tempo runs a little longer as a lot of you were enjoying them and some a little early but there are only a few of you and that meant running tempo runs by yourself so I put you on hills a little early. A lot of you know the drill when it come to hill work but for those who don’t know about them here is a description. I’ll also go over it with everyone so that they are clear on the workout.

Those of you training for the earlier fall events are reaching the toughest part of the schedule which also means the part that will be the most beneficial. That being said make sure that you take care of yourself with good nutrition, plenty of rest and taking care of your body. Something that you can do that really seems to help my legs out a long with icing is to soak your legs in cold water. I’ve been doing my long runs with someone who after the runs goes down to shilshoe and wades into the water and lets nature take over letting the cold water and wave action work over his legs. I living with my goats a bit out and away from Puget sound have another way of doing it. I use the Shower massage. I get into the shower and work it over my legs with cold water (of course the goats aren't allowed here) for a few minutes and then change over to hot water repeating for about 20 minutes. It’s very important to end with the cold water. The thing I like about this is that I don’t have to subject body parts that don’t really like to get cold to any part of the cold process. Another thing I like about this method is that I can isolate any particular sore spot. You would be amazed at how good your legs feel after this treatment. So whether you do it in the sound or in the shower treating your legs to a little cold. Ok I’ll see most of you the next couple of nights on the hills.