Workout Wednesday for Week 10!

Welcome to Week Ten!

Next Training

• Saturday 2/9/13
• 7:45 am at Forest Park Visitor's Center Parking Lot (northwest corner)

Remember

• Like Run Coach Jeffrey on Facebook
• Post questions, success stories and photos (It's amazing how posting a success story or question helps more people than you may realize!)
• Keep in contact with me and the coaches so we can help you along this journey, especially if you're unable to make group training

Last night

• We held the Spring Season Injury Prevention and Technique Clinic
• It was very successful and had great participation from everyone that attended
• (and enjoyed some delicious food!)

Success!

• Everyone is training strongly, great job!
• We have very few reported injuries and of those they appear to be minor
• Remember that proper rest and sticking to, or adding extra, rest days are just as important as physical training

This week's Coach's Topic: Injury Prevention and Technique recap from the clinic

Last night we enjoyed a very solid clinic. The participation was great and many important questions were asked.

For this week's topic, I am attaching the presentation from last night.  (The link is on the right side of this blog).  Each slide is an overview of the topic at large and we discussed each one in deeper detail. If you were unable to make it last night then please review the slide deck and let me know what questions you have.

Running is very much an experiential sport, meaning that to really learn you have to experience it. Using the guidelines and topics we reviewed last night you should be certainly poised to have a solid foundation on how to focus more keenly on injury prevention and proper technique.

Here are three quick bullets that summarize well what we reviewed:

• Conscious thought of the specific muscles involved in your current activity - stretching or exercising - will help you to be more aware making right or wrong actions

• Proper nutrition is key to fueling your body for your workouts and healing afterwards

• Altering your natural form for any reason will lead to injury. You want to remain natural and support that as opposed to training to be unnatural

Finally, I continued to be very proud of the work you are doing, especially the fundraising. Remember that our training is a byproduct of our mission to cure cancer. It is a symbol of the struggles that our patients endure. When we remember the reason of why we do this we push ourselves at least one step further to more successful training. Never Forget: Remember the Reason.

Run happy,

Jeffrey