If you want to increase your endurance, strengthen and tone your mid section and meet other mom runners, think about signing up for this new mid-week conditioning class. This is an hourlong running-based program that combines speed work, endurance drills and core exercises to help you strengthen your body for any sport (including tag … Continue reading »
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Don’t be a dumbbell: Learn the importance of strength training
Ignoring strength training puts you at risk for injury and limits your progress. Strengthening your legs and core are key ways to ensure that your muscles are capable of performing longer and at greater speeds. (It also helps tighten things up and what girl doesn’t want that?) Often times runners ignore strengthening their hamstrings and … Continue reading »
Working out with your child
Does this sound like you? Every week you plan to workout, but every week it just slips away. There just never seems to be enough time to do anything between packing lunches, cleaning up spilled milk, driving from one kid’s class to another, and work. By the time you get to the end of your … Continue reading »
Celebrate Your Right to Run This Independence Day
Instead of spending Independence Day testing your gastronomic endurance, get out and run. Redwood City will hold its 32nd annual 5K fun run at 9 a.m. The best part is you can run with a jog stroller and there’s a parade for the kids. This weekend Pacifica has two big running events. On Saturday, there’s … Continue reading »
Run for the hills
I grew up in a neighborhood where going to school everyday meant scaling one or two mountainous hills. I used to dread the daily trek and told everyone for a year that when I grew up I planned to live somewhere flat. Fast foward 30+ years and indeed I live on a flat street, … Continue reading »
Run, Baby, Run: Tricks for running with a child
When I’m running with my daughter, I sometimes feel like a clown pushing a shopping cart with a monkey in it. If you are a mom with a running plan you will be tracking at least some distances with your child. And since children are about as predictable as weather, you’ll find your runs similar. … Continue reading »
Maximizing your treadmill workouts
There are some days — be it too rainy or hot — when running outside sounds about as appealing as swimming in the Bay. On those days, I head to the gym, drop Adeline off at the gym daycare and hit the treadmill. I used to think of the treadmill as an awfully boring and … Continue reading »
Your first run after a baby
Those first few steps of a run after having a baby can be really torturous. You think your going to pee your pants, your boobs hurt and, well, everything down below is achy. It’s enough to send you back to the couch. Rest assured, though, it gets easier and being prepared will make the experience … Continue reading »
Cross train with circuits
Getting to the gym everyday is not always in the cards. On those days, I pull out the jump rope and start circuit training, grouping several different exercises together in rapid succession. Usually, I end up far more sore than I do when I go the gym and I didn’t even have to get in … Continue reading »
Run the distance
Okay, so the word I’m about to use is really funny — one of those that makes you giggle like a school girl. It’s Fartlek, Swedish for speed play. It’s the best principle I’ve found for not only increasing speed but distance. It goes something like this: Every time you run, increase your speed for set periods, then revert to your normal jog, then increase it again. Do this for a set period of time during your run and you’ll begin to notice a huge difference in your performance. For instance, a three mile run might look like this: Continue reading »
