I had a really low week (35 miles) rehabbing my lower left ham, but it's feeling much better now. Prior week was 60 miles, which is fine, but too much intensity on hills and pace. Learned my lesson I hope LOL.
I gotta throw this out there: today there's the annual cyclocross race at my local park, which attracts teams and riders from Virginia, Maryland (Annapolis and Baltimore big showing), and of course DC. Age groups plus Category 4-1 racers. For those who don't know, Cat 1 riders are the highest performers at the amateur level. You move up in categories by accumulating points in sanctioned races. Anyway, it's always a well attended interesting day.
As someone on the cusp of 60, who still trains decently hard, and watches my diet, I was flabbergasted by the males in my age group in terms of whole body strength. Not just very large defined leg muscles, as expected, but very low fat and upper body strength as well. Are we runners just not training enough core, or are these cyclists getting there with help?
I don't need to look/feel strong and muscular, but I do still want to run as fast as I am capable for 5k - 10 miles. I'm not a marathoner, but jeesh, I seemed weak compared to many of these dudes LOL.