Grooved to Run

Today was Week 1 Day 1 of the Hal Higdon 5K Intermediate Training Plan.

According to the plan, Monday is always a rest day. But Hal does recommend that you work some strength training into your routine:

Strength training is important too: push-ups, pull-ups, use of free weights or working out with various machines at a Health Club. Runners generally benefit if they combine light weights with a high number of repetitions, rather than pumping very heavy iron.

He recommends doing some lifting after the shorter runs on Tuesday/Thursday, but I’m going to stick to the same schedule I had going with HH10K and do my lifting on Monday/Thursday. So that’s what I did today… some extra stretching and a decent strength workout.

Tomorrow is a three mile run.