After hiking up and down the side of Mount Greylock with about 35 pounds of camping gear on my back, I was feeling aches in muscles I never knew I had. Could this qualify as holiday weekend crosstraining?
The array of leg muscles that propel the body and gear up the side of a mountain and drop it down from rock to rock in the other direction is a different array than the leg muscles that propelled me forward Tuesday afternoon through New Haven streets and across Edgewood Park on a post-holiday five-miler and this morning up the canal trail on a pre-work four-miler.
Both build leg strength, I figure, which is important to prevent injury. But more important is the motivation factor. A little physical activity, whatever it may be and whatever muscles used, could be what I need to get on track with marathon training, finally and at long last.
Two weeks until 5k in Saint Paul, Minn. Five months until NYC Marathon.
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