Thursday, August 2, 2007

"Juggling Show"

I took the day off from running and instead did some cross-training at home. The kids and I often do a thing called "Juggling Show," which involves me juggling and jumping around to music while the kids dress up as ballerinas and jump around and sometimes try to juggle. This was followed by an intense strength-training workout, including push-ups with a four-year-old girl sitting on my back.

I read an article recently about Anthony Gatto's practise methods. According to this write-up, Gatto practises 1-2 hours a day and during that time only spends about a minute working on any particular trick. He switches around continually between different props and numbers. This avoids the frustration of trying and failing one thing over and over, and that one minute per day per trick eventually leads you to mastery of many, many tricks. I've been following this training method and it does seem to work.

The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon just announced that CBC Country Canada and cbcsports.ca will broadcast the race LIVE on Sept. 30, so if they happen to film me, it would likely be the first-ever live TV coverage of a joggling marathon.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

There is Live coverage of the Chicago Marathon every year. You need to ask Perry if He's ever heard he's on TV.

Michal The Joggler Kapral said...

That's true. So Perry, did you ever make it on the Chicago broadcast, or were they too busy filming the ordinary runners up front?

Perry said...

I'm not sure about the "official" marathon coverage. But I know I've been on the local news reports a few times.

Mostly, the marathon people focus on the speedier runners in the front pack (as they should).