Running Drills

I've had a pretty chilled-out weekend so far... Party Friday night, vegging out the whole of Saturday and a relaxed Sunday morning. Did not manage to wake up early enough for the 8k run that I had planned. So decided to substitute that this evening with some indoor drills for running form.

In the past, I've often resorted to running in place at home whenever I've been unable to get outside to run. Based on what I've read, it is a good form of cardio work-out and it also helps you train your running form. I looked up some running form drills today and came across this article on Women's Running which I tweaked a bit for today's work-out.

So the entire workout which lasted for 50 minutes included 10 minutes of jogging in place to warm up then 9 rounds of 40 sec High Knees + 20 sec jogging in place, 40 sec Butt kicks + 20 sec jogging in place and 20 sec fast feet + 40 sec jogging in place with 2 minutes of easy jogging after the 3rd and 6th round followed by 9 minutes of jogging in the end to cool down.

I had my nike+ running app turned on to the indoor settings and it showed the above workout to be the equivalent of running 7.5k and burning 418 calories. I'm not sure how accurate that is but it was certainly a sweat fest. I'm glad I worked out and happy that I did not give into laziness as I am prone to do on weekends.

:-)