Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on December 23rd, 2006 in Training

As I claw my way back from injury, I find that I’ve been hitting the cross-training hard.  I’ve been doing the elliptical, but for example, I spent 4 hours on the elliptical last week and I’m at 4 hours, 20 mins this week so far and I still plan to do 40 mins today to bring it to 5 hours for the week.
I don’t know if this level of cross-training is required, but it makes me feel better about not losing any fitness.

I’ve started back running and did 4.5 miles today.  I think I’m well on my way to getting back to my 25 mpw level by the New Year.  I’m ending this week at 9.7 miles.  I’m hoping to do 20 miles next week and then hopefully 25 miles for the first week of the year.

All I need from Santa now is a body that can hold up to the running I want to do.