Don’t Try This At Home…

Or on your next run. I recently wore a stylish and fitted workout top I found at the bottom of my drawer. Looked hip and cool at the outset of the run….by the last mile I was hurting. And later that day, I looked like this:

Three sleepless nights later, it finally started to heal. I am happy to say I gave the top away, and have heard from a number of runners that Body Glide is a great way to prevent this. I’ve used it with my wetsuit for easy triathlon transitioning, but not thought of this!

Happy running!

 

Tags: Running, Triathlon

Flying with Fins

I do love a good swim workout…but I mostly love a great sprint swim workout - with fins! There is nothing as fun as putting on fins and flying from one side of the pool to the other. Your arms can hardly keep up with your legs and, despite the fact that your lungs are searing and on the verge of exploding, you keep going.

Why? Because it’s FUN! And fast! And I love fast. Well, my body loves fast. Long and slow, not so much. I am a Fast Twitch muscle kind of gal and I love it. And while I love all of my many friends who are Slow Twitch gals, I’ll never, ever be able to run the kind of marathon they can, or swim the kinds of distance they can.

Back to those fins…they make the short and fast 25’s and 50’s super-speedy and fun. And they make the distance swims fun too, since no matter how fast you are going regularly, you’re going to go a whole lot faster with fins on.

So give em a try the next time you get to the pool. I have my own Zoomers, which are short fins and great for strengthening your legs and giving you an added speed boost. But the really fun ones, the ones you’ll find in the equipment room next to any Masters workout pool are the long blade babies that make you fly!

Tags: exercise, fins, Gadgets and Gear, Swimming