Pre-Tournament Week

Last week went ok. Did intervals only twice, but did all the Air Alerts. The burnouts are hurting but overall I wasn't too sore. I have a tournament this weekend, and am supposed to do Air Alert on MWF, trying to decide if I want to move Friday's Air Alert to Thursday. Any thoughts Edelman?

At practice Thursday, we ran intervals. I always rely on Fox to set the pace, but afterwards, he mentioned that he was able to hit the same spot every time when we started running again. I had to explain that you're not supposed to run each interval at the same pace. The first one should probably be considerably faster than the second. It doesn't matter how fast your legs are moving, it's all about how fast the heart is beating. If you run the first couple slower than you can, you're wasting those runs, you don't get the full benefit unless you're running all out. You should NOT be able to recover completely in the rest periods. On Saturday, I went out to the track and ran the intervals myself, really pushing myself on the first runs. I was very slow by the end (and very, very tired), but I made it through. Next week is 7x30/20s.

For Rival this summer, I'm thinking of just having people start witht he 8x20/10s so everyone is doing the same thing. The people who haven't been running will be a lot slower initially, but I think that's ok.

Last thing, I'm reading this Core Performance book. It's very good, very balanced. Has the best nutrition/diet system I've seen. I hope to give a full review later this week (or next week), but then again I'm still hoping to get my philosophy post up sometime...