A 2:37 isn’t bad. How old are you?
If you can run 5 miles a day, then I think you have more than enough stamina for the 800. You should work on speed, and probably your form.
When you’re running, what’s your arm action like? If you’re crossing over your body a lot, or not pumping your arms, then that will slow you down a lot.
Something I’ve tried which seems to help is sprinting downhill without slowing yourself down. This gets your body used to longer strides and moving faster.
Granted the 800 is more of a distance race than it is sprinting, improving you speed definitely wouldn’t hurt.
Been on a fitness kick lately. Tried to go run 2-3 times per week for about a month. Nearly every time, I get a cramp and have to stop and walk or turn around. Now I bike .
Decided I wanted to run a marathon one summer. Didn’t do it. Ended up starting on Ultra’s since they looked more fun.
Chi Running is a good book to learn a different style of running from track, etc. That ‘knee’s up’ goes and so do a lot of running injuries if you are prone to them. Says he developed the style from watching kids run naturally. Worked for me. Not sure about all the business and marketing that sprang up around it though.
I overpronate which makes running extra bad for my knees, so no. I’m more of a powerlifter and prefer working out. I really need to get back into a gym routine, weight lifting is so much fun.
The other problem is that I have a football lineman build (not just because im fat, lol), so im not really the running type. Even with my Kayano’s I start getting blisters around 5K, and overall I just dont enjoy running. Sprints can be exhilarating though.
Any tips to keep motivation to go to the gym? I went 3-6 times week for 6 months and loved it. I have slowly lost my motivation and may only go 1 or 2 times a week now.
Unfortunately no, I am relaying experiences of my own that are a few years old. Though some things that kept me going: wanting to get stronger/build more muscle, and to look the best I could for a girl I was interested in at the time. Going to the gym is easiest for me when I have a consistent work schedule and can just go on my way home, a dynamic in my life that I currently don’t have. Having the motivation to work out after doing physical labor all day is extremely hard, plus I come home (rural) after a full day at work and don’t feel like driving the 20 minutes to the gym afterwards. I really want to get back into it, but I need to get a new job to schedule my workouts conveniently. I was really active at the gym for about 2 years, and I was almost always motivated to go. Weightlifting is such a good stress reliever. I used it to get my anger out after a bad day.