Water Running

Hey there,

So today after I got done with my hour or so at swim practice I decided that instead of doing most of my run on land today that I'd do my running in the pool.  My running coach made me do it when I was training for my marathon and my shins were getting really bad.  Its the best substitute for land running to get the same effect mentally and physically.  I started running in the shallow end with my feet hitting the bottom of the pool but that made my toes really sore after a little while and my calves were getting really tight so I switched back to the way I did it before and went and got a water belt to put on.  Then I did it in a little deeper water with my feet not hitting the bottom, felt a lot better.  Its amazing to think that moving your legs back and forth so fast in the running motion actually gives you a decently good workout because you go absolutely no where fast! You look and feel ridiculous especially when you're in a pool with a couple different swim practices going on.  But I got a total of around 40 mins in which is equivalent to about 5 miles since for me about 8 mins of pool running is equal to about a mile.  Then later when I went into the gym to go to the Spin class, I ran a mile on the treadmill before the spin class started so I got around 6 miles in today but it was easier on my legs since I did most of it in the water :)

Tiffany