Getting back into itIt has been a couple of years since I've made working out a hobby, but I'm finally getting back into it. This week I'm starting back on the pushup train, hoping to reach my goal of 100 pushups by early 2008, which will involve a lot of core strengthening and back strengthening to keep my body in balance.Last night I ran the Running Room's scheduled 9kms at the Waterloo Memorial Rec Complex indoor track. For the first time in a very long time I tried a bit of sprinting. John-eric and I ran the track in somewhere around 35 seconds, which is about 25 km/h, and would make for about a 57 second lap of a 400m track. I wish I had actually timed us using my watch so that I wasn't just making a number up... I'll try that next week. It felt fantastic to run like that. Although it was a sprint, my strides were very fluid. We were starting from a jog and running quite a ways, so it wasn't the banging motion of accelerating from stand still... it only took about 5 seconds to reach top speed and from there it was smooth, fast sailing! Just for fun I searched Google Video for "800m race" and found the 1996 Atlanta olympic men's 800m. Nice! One of my "99 things" is to run 400m in 55 seconds... I should be able to accomplish that this year :) |