5 mile warm up then onto Yoga
February 26th, 2008 , 10:00 am by Michelle Halsne
The question for me was how tight are my hamstrings really? I know being a long distance runner and a non stretching kinda girl my hamstrings would be ubber tight. Today in yoga, after running 5 miles on the treadmill, I found out how rigid they really are.
I cannot sit with my legs outstretched in front of me without bending my knees. When the instructor said “now do your forward fold”, I could not even make a 90 degree angle with my torso and legs, much less reach for my toes. She looked at me as if I was ignoring her request to bring my head toward my knees. Just the act of getting the back of knees close to floor without leaning backwards caused shaking in my quads and pain, yes pain, in my upper hamstring. Now that’s tight!
The morale of my story is: I fully acknowledge to achieve optimal results and the best chance of finishing the Western States 100 mile race this summer my training must include yoga. A truly humbling experience
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 02/26/2008
- Time: 10:00:00
- Total Time: 00:44:58.00
- Distance: 5 miles
- Average Pace: 8:59.73/mile
Filed under Blogroll, Flexibility, Run, WS 100
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February 28th, 2008 , 11:20 pm
i had to laugh reading this because i too am very inflexible. my committing to 1/2 of yoga a week is harder to do than commit to running a marathon.
good luck keeping up with it - no doubt about it, you will benefit.