Month: April 2024

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Explore Nashville Run With Elizabeth

Nashville, what a great city. This morning’s run was about seeing various areas of the city and ending up at a local coffee place for beverages and a little food. Part two of the adventure was walking back to the hotel.

I researched a few coffee places and I saw Vanderbilt University was in the area so that gave me my two points of interest I was looking for.

Vanderbilt did not disappoint. The school is 150 years old and very pretty. We had a great time running through exploring and ended up using more milage than expected in the campus.

From there we set off to find Honest Coffee Roasters on Lea Ave. The City is fairly easy to navigate so it wasn’t hard to find. A coffee, a juice, and an avocado toast hit the spot. The people were great there.

We took a different street back on the walk back to the hotel and saw a whole bunch of other cool stuff.

I’m going to call this Nashville exploration mission a success.

Here are our Strava maps

Map 1 The Run Part
Map 2 The Walk Back

#explore @nashville

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Turn Any Ordinary Run Into an Adventure Run

Sometimes I like to spice up a run with some strength elements. I have been refining this combination of exercises for a while and I now think its’ ready to share. Here is the idea – find a large park, or running path if you can, and incorporate strength stations within the run. You can obviously also do this with a walk as well if you like. I have a park 2.5 miles away that I ran to this morning. At this park there is a path that is 1.2 miles around. I have seven stops in the loop and I do the loop two times and then run home. Today the total milage was 7.8 miles.

Here are the stations below

  1. Push-up’s, do 20 and run to the next station
  2. Step-ups on a rock, 20 per leg
  3. Walking Lunge, 20 per leg
  4. Leg Lifts, 20
  5. Squat Jumps, 20
  6. Pull-up’s on the playground, 10
  7. Dips, 20

Here is the link to the YouTube video where I demonstrated the whole loop.

There is no magic to the order, it’s just the way it laid out on the loop I ran. Be creative and swap in other things you like for stuff you don’t. I obviously left out burpees because I really don’t like them. This is a great workout if you are training for a Tough Mudder, Spartan, or DEKA event this coming season. Get out there, challenge yourself and have some fun.

I am not sure if this will link to Strava but I am giving it a shot. https://www.strava.com/activities/11142600624

Above is my new cover art for my Fitness Anywhere, YouTube series. Let me know what you think.