Fresh off our first race

My team (Southern California Scullers) and I kicked off the start of spring with a quick weekend trip to Tempe, AZ for the Desert Sprints. In short, I entered 3 races end ended up top 3 in each of those events. I got bronze in the Men’s Masters 1X, silver in the Open Men’s 1X, and gold in the Open Men’s Quad. I’m happy with my results since I was racing  open weight (There was no lightweight category at this race) and the guy who beat me (who is also my teamate [pictured above]) has 40 lbs of muscle on me and was a former national team member of Croatia.

First race of many this spring, more to come in the future hopefully.

Bronze, Silver, and Gold. One of every color!

So I finally am publishing my half marathon hybrid that integrates Asylum volumes 1 and 2 with running. I used a similar hybrid to PR at last year’s Hollywood Half marathon. This is a modification because the one I used had NO light weeks and NO taper. For most people that is a bad idea and a great way to get injured so I waited until I worked out what I consider a good set of ‘light weeks’ and tapers. I also added plenty of recovery work (using ‘Relief’, ‘Off Day Stretch’, and foam rolling).

I will say that foam rolling is highly recommended. Rumble Rolling is even better! (More on that later…hopefully).

Personally, I love the ‘hard weeks’ that I built into this hybrid. Living in SoCal, all the races I do have a significant set of hills and the leg workouts in both volumes of the Asylum to a great job preparing you for that. In those hard weeks, take the recovery work seriously so you can keep you muscles happy.

I will also add this to the file I have hosted on Google Drive. So if you want a file you can modify, then head there to download it. To use this in a marathon training hybrid, just swap the running miles with the distances listed in one of my full marathon hybrids. Or Click Here

Enjoy!

Click on Image and Right Click to Save. Go to the ‘Hybrids’ tab to download the excel file off Google Drive