What I mean by nothing, I mean I don’t have an end goal, a race or an event coming up soon.
There is nothing like entering a race/event to get you motivated.
This time last year I was training for the Portland 3bays (half) Marathon. After I had ran that, I had a short rest and then got back into training for Tough Mudder. I’m doing Tough Mudder again in 2014 but the event wont be until March (this year it was in January) 2014. Then I will have Spartan Race in May 2014.
So what do you do when you don’t have any events left for the year to motivate you? You create a training plan to keep you motivated.
Lifting weights keep me lean, and in my opinion, makes me a better and stronger runner. While doing Whole30 I came across a kettlebell workout called IronCore. I tried it out and really enjoy it. It’s a full-body workout and compliments my shorter runs.
My long runs used to be on a Monday. Now that run club has finished for the season I have swapped my long runs to a Saturday. The other reason I have done this is that coming into summer it’s going to get hot. This way I can run 1st thing in the morning before the heat settles in.
I’m also allowing active recovery between my run + weights days with Pilates & Yoga.
I started this training plan last week, and so far I’m really enjoying the mix-up.
Are you training for anything?
Do you lift weights? If so do you go to a gym or do it at home?
Fav Song on your iPod at the moment?