Wait -- No Weight

Today I did one hour of kick-ass strength training and I never touched a weight. This workout's a keeper.

Spiderman stretch (5 each side)
Split squat (5 each side)
Front squat (body weight only; arms extended front) 30 X 3
Push ups (uni- ext. arm front-lateral) 10 each side X 3
Reverse Pikes on Bosu 10 X 3
Uni-Split squat (back foot on bench) 5 each side X 3
Russian twist (5) SS Victories (10) X 2

Stretch

I will continue to work on strength, flexibility, and core until the marathon but I won't be using the weights anymore. I am also going to forgo anymore "explosive" plyometric exercises, including running the stairs. I've got a bunch of articles to read regarding continuing to work on these things throughout tapering vs. discontinuing and I will read them while I'm having my hair colored. I'll report the findings in my next post.

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This is a little out of sync, but I want to include it here as part of my training:
Yesterday I did hill repeats:

5 miles. 2.50 warmup. 8 hill repeats. 1 mile cooldown.

The hill I where I run repeats is .10 miles. It's also pretty steep (ok, not Rocky Mountain steep). I was fairly consistant to the end:

1:10
1:15
1:12
1:17
1:13
1:17
1:20
1:19

This will probably be the last time I run hills before Cleveland. I'm starting to feel a little beat up.