Balance and symmetry

Your running posture requires balance and symmetry. If you are not running symmetrically, you create natural angles that put unnecessary stress and pressure on your joints, which can lead to injury. Simple attention to your running form and posture keeps your body aligned and will help you develop into a more efficient runner. The following five-step circuit will help you increase power and strength endurance to keep your body strong for higher intensity training sessions or races. Do 5 reps of each step before or after any workout!

1. A skips

2. Split squat

3. Pushups - Do you really need a picture? Just drop a give me 20! (Or 5, in this case).

4. Rocket jump - Not the same as a snot rocket, although you may combine the two if you wish.

(do you think this guy looks like Daniel Craig?)

5. Pedestal knee to opposite elbow

Questions? Thoughts? Let's hear 'em!

Run for your lives,

Coach Bree

Running Drills

Run drills can be implemented into your training at any time, during any type of a workout. There's never a bad time to work on your form or cadence. Even though we usually equate run drills with being at the track before a speed workout, run drills can be used during a casual easy run or even on a long run to give you a little focus and quality. There are many different drills you can implement into your training and mixing them into your runs on a weekly basis can have a positive effect on your run form.

Interested in incorporating drills? Make a request for a drill that will address a specific issue you may have.

Run for your lives,
Coach Bree

It's that time again!

Hello Run the Rockers!

A little late to start, but your favorite RTR blogger is back at it for 2015.  This blog started in 2012 and over the years I've tried to bring you a wide variety of advice and training plans to get you prepared for the Kodiak's premier running event. I am going to try something a little different this year, though. Instead of me spewing forth random bits of running geekery based on the assumption that everyone simply must be riveted, I would like to make this year's blog more of a Q&A.  But how can this happen?! Well, as luck would have it, Run The Rock has a brand new Facebook page. So scoot on over there, like it, bookmark it and then start posting your questions! If folks don't post questions, I'll have no choice but to write about poop again.

Run for your lives,
Coach Bree