Tomorrow, we will start our first day with the Boys and Girls Club of Ventura County. Some of us will be spending time at up to 2 different club sites. Should make for a fun filled day in the ITA household. I am very excited for the implementation of ITA into the Boys and Girls Club!
I have been making tremendous progress with the achilles injury. Running has resumed and am finally out of the pool! The pool was a major struggle and am ecstatic to be out of that wretched place. A few training runs have been upwards of an hour and hills are looking more and more tempting. I hope to be completing some light workouts late next week and continue to increase my daily distance runs lengths.
A goal that I have been especially focused on lately is my flexibility. Many probably do not know this but I was one of the most inflexible runners in the history of the world(no exaggeration). Standing and trying to touch my toes I was lucky to get half way down my shins. Lying on my back I could not bring my leg up for a hamstring stretch past 45 degrees without bending my knee. Coach likes to refer to my hamstrings as steel cables. So, I was very inflexible and quickly found out that that needed to change. To date with a little work I can now touch my toes and can get past 90 degrees for the hamstring stretch. It may take me about 5 minutes of stretching and some humorous faces in the process, but nonetheless its a major improvement. I have been also working on the L7 (Hurdlers) stretch. This is the most challenging of them all and will certainly take some extra work.
Today we went looking far a good training hill, and as you can see below we found plenty. As well as got a little sidetracked at the same time.
I just got a phone call from my brother while typing, asking if he could come out and visit tomorrow. Yet another great thing to look forward to!!
Welp, I am going to bed. Hope everyone has a wonderful night!!!
David
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