Sprint tabata

Warm-up lap around the apartment complex: 6:15
Dynamic stretching: 2:30
Sprint tabata on the grass: 4:00
One more lap: 6:15
Static stretching

This is always a tough workout. Extra heinous when you haven't sprinted in a few weeks.

Lotsa tabatas

Was thinking of doing this WOD, which is to keep doing tabata intervals until you've covered 2 miles. I didn't do it as prescribed, but it was still a good amount of work!

Warm-up: 8 minute jog ~ 1 mile
12 tabata intervals, 1 min rest
4 intervals, 1 min off
4 intervals, 1 min off
4 intervals, walk the rest of the way home

I covered at least a mile and a half. Calf/ankle felt okay once it got warmed up, but started hurting quite a bit by the time I got home - I guess it was tightening up again? Foam rolled it (very gently) and am icing it now.

Neighborly assistance, and a sprint tabata

Helped one of my classmates move into a new apartment. She's an international student and had very little stuff, so it was an easy hour of toting bags and crates up and down stairs. Sweaty but easy.

Ran a tabata afterwards. 7 minute warm-up, 4 minutes of work, 4 minutes of steady running.

Sprint Tabata on the beach

5+ warm-up run, a little stretching

Sprint tabata

A few minutes' walk, and a 5-minute cool-down run

20 push-ups

The sprinting felt terrific.

Sprint Tabata (& a little climbing)

Warm-up: Bike ride to the gym + 1/4 mile jog

Sprint tabata!

Another 1/4 mile jog.

Then I climbed with Scott and about 6 of his classmates who were also there. Definitely fun when there's a crowd. Unfortunately, there were a lot of other people there too, and it was kind of hard to find space on the wall. I only did about 4 runs - my muscles were quickly burning out, and the routes I wanted to do were taken. I felt much better about my climbing than on Tuesday, so that's good!

I did the sprinting on the funny little track in the UC Davis gym - it's on the second floor and goes around the basketball courts and the top of the climbing wall, and at one point you're running down a straight section directly towards a big bank of girls on elliptical trainers. Lots of tight curves - ugh. But, it was good for me to do it with other people around, because it pushed me to run harder and "look good." But no one else was tabata-ing with me, so I didn't have to get nervous about competing/winning (which is always the *worst* part about track practices for me).

Enough rambling. It was a good workout. We had spaghetti w/flax from Trader Joe's for dinner. Time to get back to work. Hot tub later!

Sprint Tabata

5 minute warm-up run

Sprint tabata

5 minute warm-down run

A little stretching



After my less-than-stellar sprint performance on Sunday, I figured I'd better get a little more running in.