Runners’ Blog

The last posting on weight training explained the benefits of adding a weight routine to your running program. To continue with the introduction of weight exercises try-

SQUATS
These squats are not the ones the hulksters at the gym are doing. They are with light weight and done slowly with control.
Done properly, squats will improve [...]

You might think that weight training and running don’t mix. In fact, weight training can help you run better and perhaps faster. By developing your CORE muscles your running will become more efficient. Your speed may improve by simply working on your leg strength. The biggest advantage of weight [...]

Angela Perez From Albuquerque, NM
My Favorite Workout :
1-2 mile warm up
4×800
1 mile at race pace
4×400
1-2 mile cool down
To add strength to the workout follow the track session with:
100 abdominal crunches with as posterior pelvic tilt
10-20×2 push ups
Stretching – focusing on hamstrings, calves and quads

Eric Peters from Santa Fe, NM

This is a workout that I learned from Richard Rono. I like this workout because it always ends up being a satisfing workout no matter how unmotivated or tired I am. I can always tell I accomplised something through the work.

Warm up
10×200 meters with 10 seconds rest between [...]

Larry Johnson from Albuquerque, NM (85 year old Senior Olympian)

This is something I use after an injury but it can also be used by beginning runners.
Start out walking-adding a block or two everyday until you can do at least ten.
Then, jog the distance between two telephones and walk the distance between three.
If there isn’t any [...]

Lynn Asbury from Albuquerque, NM

One of my favorite workouts is a Fartlek (speed play) type run that I do when I train on the foothills near my home. After warming up 5-10 minutes, I either run hard while going up the hills or pick up the pace on the down hill part. I [...]

After slogging through snow and bundling up for the cold weather, it’s time to think about cranking up the workouts and training for that 5K. But which workout do you do? The running magazines have just the right work out for you to run a PR. Your friends do these killer workouts [...]

If you want to fuel your running, you have a few weeks left to go to a local High School Cross Country meet. Not only will you get a heads up on the future competion of road races but watching the runners make it around, up, down and over the course will make you [...]