Another Semester in the books, now time to really focus my
attention on all of you. I took my last
final today and I am celebrating with an ice cold Samuel Adams Summer Ale. There will be a Speed workout tomorrow and
with all the rain we’re currently getting, along with all that’s predicted to
fall tomorrow, I recommend that you dress as if you’re going on a trail run
(throw away clothes). Gravel tracks can
really get messy when mixed with rain, so expect to be wet and muddy tomorrow. In other words don’t wear white and if you
planned on trying out those fancy new Brooks running sneakers DON’T! If the rain is falling really good I will
have a fun workout planned.
I want to take a moment to congratulate Harris Brenner and
Gregg Holst on their amazing accomplishment of completing a very intense and
challenging 100 miler (as if all 100 milers were not challenging) this past
weekend at Massanutten Mountain Trail.
Also a shout out to the Schaal’s, Breandan Nemic, and Andy Shapiro who
completed another Ragnar Relay over the weekend to raise awareness of Autism
and to honor Jeffery Schaal. I would
like to also wish the very best to the Kanak’s and Mike Brown as they travel to
the Pocono’s to run the Pocono Marathon this coming weekend. Good luck to all of you and remember you put
forth the effort these past few months for this and it will show. In another note Allyson ran for the first
time in six weeks this weekend and the run went well, so if all continues to go
well she will be back with us soon.
I have setup a Yahoo Message Board for all of you to use to
keep up on our workouts and to communicate with one another. To sign-up I have added two links on the blog
so sign-up.
Found this article on Runners World today and thought I
would share it with all of you to show you that I’m not just being cruel…http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-267--13165-0,00.html
Till we run into each other again…
I definitely see the purpose of speed workouts on the track. My only problem is that races are not run on a track (unless it is a track race). Most of the paces that you run your interval is at a 5K pace, but that is on rolling hills and not on a flat track. So isn't a fartlek workout on the roads more similar to that of your races? I have thought about that for a while.
ReplyDelete“So much running on the track became boring and I lost the sense of freshness which comes from putting on spikes only for an important race.” -Roger Banister
ReplyDeleteEric, It’s funny you bring up the ‘Fartlek” workout, because if the rain had continued into are workout tonight I was going to take us off the track to have fun with a fartlek workout. The purpose of the “Speed” workouts is just that to build up your “Speed” (to get faster). Fartlek workouts are great to incorporate into your weekly routine if you’re putting in a ton of miles a week (50 or more). We actually simulate fartlek workouts a lot on our Hill workouts. Fartlek workouts are great for a change of pace and definitely for building up endurance, but you’re going to become faster with the speed workouts. As for your comment regarding rolling hills over the flat track, not all races are solely rolling hills or flat that’s why we do both Tuesday’s-Track and Thursday’s-Hills. I hope this was helpful.
CT