Pump and Run

Spring training continued this morning on campus at the world famous Peachtree Road United Methodist Church (PRUMC) Boot Camp. We have had nice crowds for the new year. It appears there are numbers that plan to thrill the crowd when they shed the winter threads.

Toady's discipline targeted upper body. It has come to our attention that the faster we pump our arms, the faster our legs turn over. Faster arms = faster legs. So after running around PRUMC twice for a warm up, we ran around PRUMC three times with 5 pound weights in hand. We stopped about every 300 meters and pumped out 40 repetitions of various shoulder, back and arm exercises. after 400 reps, we dropped the weight and lined up on the street. The neighborhood behind The Church has a natural half mile. The half mile horse shoe runs down hill to the half way then logically, up to the finish. We ran the half mile twice.

Many of our workouts simulate 5k race conditions. Today we wore oursevles out for 2 1/2 miles then practiced keeping good form at 5k race pace for the final mile.

3.5 miles, 400 reps