Cut minutes off your City2Surf time in only 24 hrs
Well, here we are Saturday morning on the day before the 39th City2Surf and it is time for my Number 1 tip to strip minutes from your City2Surf time. How to avoid the Vindaloo Line I just made that up’¦ (I had a particularly hot vindaloo last night, and I know you don’t want to feel like I did first thing this morning!). The Vindaloo Line is what I call (as of now) all those people who line up at the port-a-loos at the start and along the run. This untimely stop can cost you many minutes. There are only two reasons you’ll...
read moreYour Style Can Make the Difference
If you intend to run the City2Surf, then with seven weeks to go, you’d be getting into the serious part of the training where we start to look at improving your running technique. See ‘Lifting your Game – Week 7‘. If you are just starting out on a fitness routine and planning to either walk or perhaps jog some parts of the event, now that we are starting to use a bit more effort, it is time to pay attention to your fast walking or jogging style. If you are getting sore ankles, feet, knees or even hips, the chances are...
read moreCity to Surf training plan – Stage Two
With seven weeks to go, you should be feeling a starting to feel a sense of achievement and hopefully you’ll also be getting comfortable with a the idea of monitoring the how far you walk. So, in stage two, we need maintain the routine but it is time to get a little further out of our comfort zone again: In the next three weeks we will focus on increasing our speed and conditioning by introducing some interval and hill work into the program. This stage of this program is very important because if we continue to walk and jog as we have...
read moreStepping it up with 8 weeks to go
After a few weeks of regular walking you should be feeling a little fitter and you should be starting to get used to the routine of wearing the pedometer and aiming for your target daily step count. So far we have been walking a regular 12,000 steps per day. Now, with two months to go until the City2Surf, it is time to vary the program by adding in some different terrain and some longer walks. I recommend that you do longer walks on at least 4 days each week and on one of these days, you add in some hills if you aren’t already walking...
read moreWalking to Success
Hats off to everyone who have managed to keep their step count over 10,000 a day in the conditions of the last two weeks. Most of the people I know of who are following the New Beginning City2Surf training program are averaging 13,000 to 14,000 steps a day, which is excellent considering many of you have been regularly walking in the rain. Sonia and Sue are both joining us in the Life7 City2Surf team this year. I was about to leave their house late one night last week when the discussion moved to their daily step count. Without batting an...
read moreStep it up a Notch
Nine Weeks to Go With nine weeks until the City2Surf, you still have plenty of time to get into condition for the event (but don’t wait a moment longer). In the first week we set ourselves a target of 10,000 steps per day. This is the minimum the experts tell us we should all be doing every day of our lives in order to maintain our general health, but the average office worker only does around 3,500 steps a day (which is one of the reasons we are all getting fat!). When you look at it that way, we haven’t really started training...
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