Fellow Endorphin Junkies -
The weather tomorrow morning will be decent, with temps in the low 40s, lower humidity at 73%, a little wind at 6 MPH, but some chance of light rain. Despite the cool weather, you should still bring plenty of fluids. We will meet at Yorktown HS track, around the corner from the school on Greenbriar street (the track is technically in Greenbriar Park) – warm up at about 5:40 am, before the 6 AM start time for instructions.
January 19, 2023 – 4 to 5 x 1000m at 10k ("Cruise Interval") pace moving to 5K ("Interval") Pace, w/400m SLOW easy jogs in between out in Lane 6 to allow recovery
Water breaks are important ALL year round, even when it is cool like tomorrow, so remember to hydrate before, during and after your runs – after each interval if possible, but at least every other interval!
NOTE: I expect to see your heart rates in the mid 80% of Maximum range, but if your rates are higher, you need to slow down!
Stallions: 5:30 to 6:45 down to 5:15 to 6:30 Pace
Wolf Pack: 6:30 to 7:00 down to 6:30 to 7:15 Pace
Gazelles: 7:45 to 8:30 down to 7:00 to 7:45 Pace
Coyotes/MTP Trainees: 8:30 to 10:00 down to 7:45 to 9:30 Pace
This week's workout is a good speed workout, but given the distance, also an endurance workout. As with last week's workout, the trick tomorrow is to start at 10k pace on the first interval and to get just a bit faster each interval until you are running 5k pace. Focus on form, eyes front, knees higher, arms at side lifting the knees, hands relaxed, on toes. This is a 5k distance race for us (Albeit with 4 x 400m jogs added!), so take it easy on the recovery jog/walk/water legs of 400m.
In Coach Rich Club News –
Greetings Thursday morning faithful. Some great racing by the crew this past weekend.
Carrie Dunn got a 2:30 PR at the Houston Half Marathon with a time of 1:27:41 just missing the podium.
At the marathon in Houston, Tatyana Steis, Houston 3:04:49 which was good for 2nd in the 45-49 AG. This was also the 18th state Tatyana has run a marathon in.
Eunja Rau was in Louisiana for the Louisiana Marathon. Her time was 4:10:13 and this was her 24th state.
Some real nice running at the club's JFK 20K
1:20:03 - Christie Wetzel, 3rd OA and 1st OAF !!!
1:31:02 - David Meeks, 2nd 55-59
1:31:07 - Melinda Metz, 1st 45-49
1:52:48 - Yuko Takakusaki, 1st 55-59
2:21:08 - Miguel Cuya
The next Snowball Series race is this week on Jan 14 is the JFK 20K/MLK 5k at Carderock. Following that will be the Langley 8K on Saturday Feb 4. All the details for signing up to run or volunteer are at http://dcroadrunners.org.
Also, save the date for the Club Challenge 10M on Feb 26 at Howard County Community College. More coming soon on how to register
I hope to see you guys tomorrow, but I am just a maybe as of now. Happy running!
Coach Big Guy and Coach Rich (Hopefully) will be at Yorktown tomorrow morning!
