Quote Originally Posted by southernsoftie View Post
Early mornings - either 5am from home or 7:45 round York when I get to the office. Then hills at the weekend. Generally tend to do quite intense row routines as warm up to my gym session which is excellent cross-training for running as well as being slightly less stressful on the joints.
I definately agree with you that gym work / cross training that helps the body achieve an all round good level of fitness and strength, has got to be a good addition to any training plan. Ive had 2 weeks off running in a bid to clear my legs of injury, and in that time ive been doing some gym work, tonight I did 30mins on the cross trainer at level 12, maintaining rpm of 85-95 throughout, then 5km rowing maintaining 35 something or other! It seemed like hard graft to me! I was going to do some weights but was to sweaty!!