Coach Amy’s Running Tips
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Meet at 6:30 AM Brookside Tennis Courts. We have an 18 miler planned including portions of the KC marathon course and it's beloved Sunset Hill. Drink plently of fluids today. Remember, shirts and car decals are for sale in our SHOP. Order deadlines this week!
A running/exercise log can be very helpful in recognizing patterns that affect your performance. They are useful in determining factors that may contribute to injury and assessing the efficacy of a particular training program. Detailed logs are essential in aiding coaches in their job to boost your performance and physical therapists in their efforts to help you prevent and recover from injury.
A log can be basic or very detailed. Logs can include tracking of:
There are lots of running logs to choose from. They vary widely from good old fashioned paper and pen or pre-printed bound booklets to fancy websites connected to mapping services and timing devices.
Many area runners including RRKC runners are logging their mileage on a social network site for runners called Daily Mile
Daily Mile is like Facebook for runners putting you in touch with runners all over the world, in your neck of the woods or you can limit it to your own circle of running buddies.
If you mention RRKC runs and S+S classes in your posts it helps promote our group too! Coach Amy is a member and loves to keep tabs on her runners! If you run into troubles like burn out or injury it helps her to be able to look at your daily mile records for patterns.
Let Coach Amy know info@roadrunnerskc.com so she can friend you. Or, you can friend her: search for Amy Parkerson-Mitchell.
See you on the DM!
"Keep It UP"
I was running the trail today in the muggy soup that is KS, feeling sick and tired of the heat just hoping to get my miles done, when I passed a couple of cross country runners from the local high school. They were no doubt running their cool down or easy pace. But as I passed I said, "good morning" and their reply was, "Keep it up!" How lovely! Those three little words helped me finish out my run with a little more spring in my step.
So, I am going to pay it forward to all you Roadrunners out there suffering in the heat, "Keep it UP!" And take heart, soon the weather will cool down. Oh, and when you see runners on the road, give them a "Keep it UP!" - those three little words may help them too!
2015 Fall Shirt
2015 Fall Tank
Shirt designs are ready for order! Jen K gave us a great variation with Miles in 5 shades of blue and gray on run-friendly, white poly-cotton blend American Apparel material.
We'll order the first batch on Sunday, August 16, so get your info in before midnight on Saturday.
Head over to the SHOP, it's on the MORE menu, above. Choose Gear to see shirts (and stickers).
Visit us in our SHOP to get your very own RRKC car decal featuring our mascot Miles. Offered for a limited time only.
Miles says, "No runnin' in the lightning! Check out this article from Runner's World."
