Cross-Training Days: Stuck in a Storm

As I type, we are in a white-out storm, complete with awesome thunder, lightning and glorious, glorious rain that Eastern NC so desperately needs. However, there is zero sunlight coming through my windows, so today I come to you straight from my bathroom (the one room I don't have compact fluorescent bulbs in the sockets) post-gym:



As The (Sub)Plan dictates, today was a scheduled Rest/Cross-Training day. I've been riding the endorphin wave for six days now and I don't intend on stopping until I don't feel I can exercise safely. I arrived at the gym just as the storm was rolling in and watched through the window as lightning lit up the sky.

I don't have very much experience constructing my own weight regiment, but I figure if I do rep sets on each of the machines supplied at my local Gold's Gym I can build a muscle base which will allow me to move on to some more serious free weight routines. (Any suggestions, readers, I'm all ears!) One of the lessons I learned in (kinda sorta) training for my previous half-marathons is that a little bit of weight training would have gone a long way. And like I said yesterday, I'm planning to do this training right.

And because it's the middle of summer, I have what I call "itchy" feet - I'm wanting to travel, to roam; particularly, I'm feeling the pull to the mountains, so I really enjoyed this post of the day from Trail Running Magazine. Enjoy!


Adam Campbell Chilcotins run from ARC'TERYX on Vimeo.