Pace Group Run Saturday June 11

Hey

This is always an exciting time of year as we welcome new runners to the group,as well as welcome back some veterans who have taken the winter off.

A few house keeping items to start, our pace group has a Blog where each week we will post all our weekend run info, so if for any reason you miss a group mail you may want to have the Blog book marked so you can refer to it just in case. The Blog also has a section called If You Are New To the Group , you may want to check it out, it will help get you familiar with everything you need to know about running with our group.

Also, if you have your race picked out for the fall please let us know as soon as possible, it makes it easier for us when we are planning our weekend runs to know what who needs what mileage.

Now down to business, since we are early in the session, we are in the building phase of our training and our mileage reflects this so please bear with us as our routes will reflect the need to accommodate all of our runners during this building phase. During this phase it is important to keep your pace in check especially if you are covering new distances. Our Saturday runs are to help you build endurance not speed so our pace will normally be run slower than marathon or half marathon pace. Also Saturday runs are good opportunities practice race day routines, pre race fueling, clothes, Body Glide and in run fueling GU's, Shot Bloks, etc. One final note that you will hear repeated many times this session... Please hydrate during the week and during the run, this heat will get to you, even though we run early in the morning the temps and humidity will affect you more than you think!!

Speaking of water, we have a large group so please be sure that as we get to the water stops you move through quickly, get your water and get ready move on. One final note if you find that you are not feeling well or you get injured during the run please do not try to "gut it" out, please let one of the leaders know. Whew!!!
The Plan: Meet at Cady Way 5:45 Start 6:00
The Route:
Cady Way to Glenridge 2 miles
those needing 4 miles head back to Cady Way Via Whitehall and Green
2 mile Baldwin Park Loop 2 miles
those needing 6 miles head back to Cady Way Via Whitehall and Green
Glenridge/Windsong loop 2 miles
Glenridge to Cady via Balmoral and Windsong 4 miles
those needing 8 miles will break off at Whitehall and head back to Cady Way

ODDS N ENDS:
Please be sure you have signed up for this coming session of MarathonFest, we can only keep you on the Group Mail list for so long before we will have drop you from the mailings.
The The Houston Marathon January 15, which is where the Olympic trials will be held, should be a fun time with a number of our group eyeing this as their early Winter Goal Race. Talk to Ruthie, this her backyard and she has all the info!
The other race that we already have a good number of our runners signed up for is the Savannah Rock N Roll Half and Full Marathon Nov. 5.