Summer Running Series
Learn to Run the Right Way and Enjoy Meditative Movement in Nature.
June 26 to July 10 -FAR WorkOUT
July 24 to Aug. 21 - Running Up That Hill
FAR WorkOUT!
Improve your running, get into running, and connect with your body.
Moving meditation in nature is the easiest way to describe this experience. The Form Awareness Run is led by a Spears Strong trainer who will guide you through a body awareness cycle of cues to help you connect with your body. Awareness of how your foot is connecting to the ground and what your shoulders and hands should be doing while connecting to how you are breathing. To accomplish this, we slow it down and focus on creating muscle memory on how to disengage your foot from the earth in a non-ballistic way with a solid and supple posture.
This is great for the avid runner who has recurring running injuries or is interested in mixing it up and slowing it down, someone getting back into running, and anyone else who is looking for a different way to connect with your body in nature. The FAR is done in complete silence except for the cues from your trainer and questions and guidance during the group warm-up and cool-down.
“The Form Awareness Run is harder than you would think. Not huffing and puffing hard but more mentally challenging and getting you to fully connect with your body. You learn what to think of and how to hold your body at a slowed down pace. It works your body too. Even though it’s slowed down, expect your muscles to work and get firing in the right way.”
A new spin on our Form Awareness Run Series to now include a workout! We will still be doing moving meditation in nature but with some fun movements and challenges included. The FAR is a very slow jog and is led by a Spears Strong trainer who will guide you through a body awareness cycle of cues to help you connect with your body. Great for runners and want-to-be runners. 3-week Series
June 26 - July 10
Fridays at 6-7 am
Locations will be outdoors in Camas. Specific location sent when you register.
Cost for this limited space series: $90 (no drop-ins available)
Get $50 OFF! SUMMER RUNNING SPECIAL: Sign-up for both FAR WorkOUT and Running Up That Hill Series and get $50 off.
Cost when you sign up for both running programs! $240 $190
Current Spears Strongers use code FAR to get $15 discount.
Running Up That Hill
Dial in Pacing, Hills, Twists and Turns.
Nothing feels quite like gravel and dirt under your feet while running. Slight dampness of the morning as the sun is rising makes for a tacky interaction with your feet and the ground while the denseness of the air adds to the denseness of the forest around you. Enjoy the wonderfulness that the PNW outdoors has to offer guided by a Spears Strong Trainer to supply the motivation, expert run cueing and creativity within each week's group training runs in nature to keep you looking forward to getting up early every Friday morning.
July 24-Aug. 21
Every Friday at 6 am
Includes at-home video workouts assigned by your trainer to do between sessions to recover and progress you.
Runs take place on trails in Camas. Location sent on registration.
Last two sessions of the series will likely go overtime by 30 minutes.
Cost for this limited space 5-week series: $150( no drop-ins available)
Spears Strongers use code HILLS for a $20 DISCOUNT
“The Spears Strong trail running series equipped me with the skills and confidence I needed to take in the beauty around me while on the trail, rather than focusing on my feet. Among other skills, I learned proper form for ascending and descending hills, which enables me to run more efficiently with less shock/stress to my body, and the camaraderie within the training group made the series a fun and encouraging experience.”
A perfect transition step from Spears Strong’s Form Awareness Run training program to take body awareness while in motion, or moving meditation, to a level of higher physical effort. Learn to become one with the ups and downs, twists and turns as well as each step your foot comes down on the imperfect terrain underneath. Feeling tall and strong from your glutes of the leg connecting with earth while your foot splays and your ankle calibrates and adjusts to every off camber pronation or supination mother nature is throwing at you. Knowing what to do with your arms and hands to counterbalance the terrain and giving your hips and lower legs the confidence to be free and run!
Instead of being discouraged by hills, Spears Strong’s Running Up That Hill series will teach you how to let go of control of what you think your pace should be and how hard you should be pushing and let the inundations of mother nature along with your breathing, take over. Learn to use your upper body weight, instead of your feet and lower legs, to control your speed and guide you around turns. Integrating into your nervous system to take more steps going uphill with your pace slowing down and you being able to have the confidence to look around at this slower pace and appreciate the real reason you are in the woods with a group of like minded people early in the morning in the first place.
This program is running, make no mistake. That doesn’t mean you need to be a track star or marathoner to participate though. Training runs will be set up for runners of different speed and levels to not only challenge themselves the appropriate amount but also be able to be a part of the group. Camaraderie while challenging yourself in nature early in the morning releasing so many feel good chemicals the rest of your day and weekend will be positively amplified.
That being said, if you currently have injuries let us know and we can get you set up in a program to get rid of said injuries so the next time this program comes around you will be ready to go. . We’ll teach you how to hydrate, layer and fuel yourself with supporting material. You will also get an accompanying training plan with supported virtual workouts to keep you from having to guess what to do in between group training runs.