It is just the first week of the session and we already have some big congratulations to pass out to a few of our runners who had some pretty impressive PR’s last weekend. First to Stephanie Boomershire who ran the Annapolis Half last weekend and had her second PR in 6 months1:44…. Smokin and Christine Joyce who trained with us over the winter session ran the San Diego marathon and PR’d by more than 30 min running 3:50.. awesome! Congratulations!
Now down to the business of training for this session… we had a lot of new faces show up for the run last week, as a matter of fact most of who ran with us at the “official” start last week were new faces, with most of the vets choosing to start early and finish early. So if you didn’t get a chance to run with us at the 6:00 start time last week I would encourage to hang around and run some miles WITH some of these new faces…. Keep in mind they haven’t heard our stories yet so they may actually be interested in listening to us J
As we mentioned last week for the next few weeks our mileage will be centered around 4,6, and 10 miles for the 6:00 start so if you want to get a few more miles in you will need to start earlier, last week we had a start at 4:45 and we were able to get 4 or 5 in before the “official” start so we will try that again this week more about that later. Also for the first month or so we will sticking to our long run paces of around 30 seconds to 1 minute SLOWER than marathon pace even if we are going shorter than 14 miles. This is partly because we are still early in the session and many of us are just building our mileage and we have a lot of people who are new to the mileage, so save your speed for track and the tempo work outs. As you all should know by now taking your Saturday runs at a slower pace will NOT negatively affect your marathon! In July we will get back to our regular start times and things will start looking more familiar. One more reminder please help us keep the group safe by following the safety rules.... thanks.
We have our site up and running again so we will start posting the group mails and we have already started posting your races under the countdown tickers so please take a few minutes to check it out and see if we have your race on it with your name attached Here . The site has a new look too.
The Plan:
Early start: 4:45 for 4 to 5 miles
Route to be determined
Official Meet 5:45 Official Start 6:00
Cady Way to Phelps 2 miles .. 4 and 6 milers head to Cady Way
Phelps to Welbourne 2 miles
Welbourne to Glenridge 3 miles
Glenridge to Cady Way via Bal Moral 3 miles Total 10 miles
Odds N Ends:
Don't forget to sign up for this session, Susan will be sending out the rosters next week and if your name is not on it..........
