I must say, I ran pretty well. I think I was also making myself go a lot faster, but it felt a lot better. I could tell when I started slipping into my old habits and doing the heel-toe step. When I stayed toward the midfoot-forefoot, the movement was much "softer". The hard part was keeping myself from lifting too high. Making sure I did the butt-kick really stepped up my pace, though. To compensate for going too fast I sometimes would go more vertical. My knees could tell, so I'd just step up the pace. Normally I was running at 6.0 mph. I topped out today at 6.8 and could have gone faster. All in all, not bad. We'll see how my joints and feet feel in 2 days, though!
In finding those videos above, I ran into these other workout videos, mainly because there was a super hot chick on the cover. She actually showed off some pretty extreme workouts. I watched more. Then I decided to subscribe to their YouTube channel and
keep an eye on their website. I put together a routine from a number of things I've seen from their videos. While BodyRock TV may seem like it's a chick body sculpting cardio class ... it isn't! I couldn't get passed one exercise! lol Seriously, I did burpees with a knee up during the down phase of the push up. I did 10 during the 50 second interval. That was it! The 2nd exercise was to be a plank position (static push up position) where you hop your knees from one side to the other, the higher you kick up in the air the harder. Turns out, it used my legs a lot more than I expected!! My legs were shot after the burpees, I couldn't do 3 reps of these hops lol I did a little bit of the push ups with a rotating kick-through (up phase), but I entirely skipped the squat and back lunge. I'll have to figure out a more balanced routine next time.
I highly recommend their website. These type of interval intensity training really help you lose weight if that's your goal, while at the same time you can focus on that muscular endurance. All around good stuff! For the guys, the videos are also hot! Watch any one of them and you'll know what I mean. You'll definitely want an interval timer, though. I found an app for my android phone. It works pretty well, because I just set up a split for my routine (50/10, though I may change it to a 30/30 for now!) and then as many repetitions as I'm going to do (8 = 2x 4 exercises; though I didn't do even 1 set). My app even has a "workout" setting where instead of setting up reps, you set up workouts which are multiple sets. I'm just sticking with the basics, though. I keep my routine on paper and during the recovery period I fill in how many reps I did.
242 + 0.5 = 242.5 miles
PT: 21.75 miles