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Easy run with hip workout

March 29, 2019 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
No, I'm not trying to imply that I've suddenly become particularly hip in my workouts. Rather, after a gentle 3.3 miles of jogging in which the weight of yesterday's glorious trackwork made its presence in my legs loud and clear, I climbed the hill to the Zuti Tabia fortress and proceeded to spend a good 20-30 minutes doing exercises aimed at loosening up or strengthening my hips: eagles, scorpions, leg swings, supine plank butt raises, the first two exercises in the standing dynamics routine, lead-leg and trail-leg hurdle drills, clams, lying on your side leg raises, and those slow leg raises when you're in a reclined sitting position. Overkill? Hope not. I'm sure I'll be a bit sore tomorrow, but I don't think it did too much. I really want to get my hips stronger before the marathon since that's the one almost-injury that's been looming over me on and off these past few weeks. I think if I'm smart about and don't overdo it can improve my strength in this one area for the next 10 days without impinging on my rest of the marathon (I started on Monday so this is my 3rd time doing it). This is a bit of an experiment of course. I should have been doing these drills all along, back when I was running for literally 2 hours ago it was hard to find the motivation to do any other exercise. I'm also going to try to work in striders more often (i.e. at all) these last couple weeks in the hopes of waking up my speed muscles before the big day. In short, I don't expect any of this to dramatically improve my time or fitness, but I do hope it will serve to head off injury and fatigue and maybe make me a bit faster in that final 1.2 mile dash to the finish line.