Hi all,
Just wanted to check in and see where y'all are staying during the our super cool half marathon.
Kevin and I booked a room at the Luxor (right next door to Mandalay Bay) for Saturday and Sunday night.
I'm getting excited!
How's the training?
Also, what is considered cross training? Does yoga count, or should I be doing something more like weight training or an alternate cardio activity, like biking or rowing.
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Ah, good stuff - thanks for reminding me about the hotel! That will be on our to-do list this weekend to book.
As for cross-training, biking or stairclimbers are both good alternatives, mainly cause they work your quads more - running works your hamstrings more, so its good to develop strength in both sides of the legs.
There's several reasons for this - overall leg and knee stability is the biggest one. Your knee joint requires most of the muscles in the leg to be working together to keep your stride stable and not shear the cartilage and bone. So all the muscles of the leg need to stay supple and strong to accomplish this perfectly.
After that is the biomechanics of how our muscles work in tandem and as antagonists for each other. When a muscle group is overworked and stays tight and contracted, a good way to immediately feel relief from that contraction is to work its antagonist muscle group - your nervous system stops "over-firing" the one group in order to consciously activate the other.
Yoga however is GREAT for overall body maintenance and muscle oxygenation (more oxygen=more blood=more muscle repair and recovery) as well as the obvious lengthening and stretching aspect.
And of course weight training is important too - you actually need to have a strong core and upper body to run as you probably realize from how sore your pectorals and deltoid muscles can get after a long run.
So my advice is some of each - cross training of weight training and biking and then add in a regular yoga routine for stretching and recovery.
Make sense? BTW - you ROCK!
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