Pose Running, Training Top and Bottom

I picked up some new running shoes last week at the Running Center. This is a great store if you are looking for experienced and expert advice (there are similar stores in other parts of the area) and it happens to be located pretty close to me. I asked one of the guys if he was familiar with the Pose Technique and he was. Nike actually makes a shoe which is kind of like a slipper. It has hardly any heal. This shoe is supposed to help you learn this technique and you can gradually break into it by just supplementing wearing it along with your regular shoes. He also told me that running barefoot in a field would also help you to learn this technique. Apparently many of the African long distance runners have excellent technique due simply to the fact that they run bare foot most of their lives. I opted to get an Asics shoe which is kind of a comprise between the normal type of shoe and one that would be more useful for the Pose Technique. It is not as stiff and has a lower heal. I tried it once already and it seems to work fine.

What I mean by training top and bottom is simply to incorporate more intensity earlier in the season. With running this means doing 20 or 30 second (or 100 meter) all out sprints (or close to all out). The main thing about this is that I believe it is healthier. Art Devany is an advocate of Paleo nutrition as well as what he calls Evolutionary fitness (pdf doc). The thinking here is simply that humans are adapted to sprinting and walking and not so much running long distances. This entry by Devany discusses this idea a little bit and also goes into sprinting technique. Last week I did sprints a couple of days mixed with jogs of about 10 to 12 minutes. I don't want to completely ignore threshold workouts, these still need to make up a lot of my training if I want to be any good at the races I do. But mixing in more short intensity sprints (both on the bike and running) I think will be healthier.

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Trumpet Lessons

An old friend Dan R. stopped by Saturday afternoon for a visit. Dan works for the Princess Cruise line as a professional trumpet player and band leader. We have known each other since both of us came to faith in Christ way back around '79 or so. He was on his way to a local gig (when he is in town, he is well known around the St. Louis area and can easily find a playing job in a variety of settings). So he brought his Axe along and gave a little trumpet lesson to the kids. I even gave it a toot. I haven't touched a trumpet in years but I managed to play a scale and even hit a high G. Dan is heading back out for a short cruse but will be back. He's looking for work and would like to find something local that would allow him to retire from the cruse ship circuit.		And here's a nice little shot that Dan took of the whole gang.

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