Sunday, February 17, 2008
Week of 2/18/08. change in workouts for Ski/Vacation Week for TuTh9am groups; Workouts, LINDA LINDSAY'S "NEVADA CHALLENGE" competition.
2/18/08. MONDAY, The Tour de California goes from Sausalito-Santa Rosa starting at 11am. We plan to bicycle out to 4.5M north of Pt. Reyes Station to see the Peloton go by.
2/19/08. TUES. 6:30am TEMPO at China Camp.
We plan to keep Brad and John on track with race pace work for Napa Marathon. they have both been getting in distance and quality as they prepare to run about 2:50 for the race: not easy.
2/19/08. TUES. 9am group. NO ORGANIZED workout for eithe Ross or Tenn. Valley.
We decided that with everyone scattered with families on vacation break we would cancel. (I'm meeting with my Dad's finance man that am now anyway).
2/21/08. THURSDAY. 7am TRACK at COM.
2/21/08. THURSDAY. 9am Gp. - NO TRACK SESSION.
2/24/08. SATURDAY. 7am HILL REPEATS at McGinnis Park. doing 17 reps - we are on track for getting to 20 reps for several sessions before tackling the course. Once we get to 20 reps, you will do every 4th one faster - or at least the last 100 feet as a pickup. That will get you used to pushing that nasty last 100 meters on Cardiac.
By the way, last Saturday, the large owl we saw during the warmup along the marsh and ponds was a BARN OWL. quite something.
2/25/08. SUNDAY (coach JASON JACOBSON'S Workout) 6:30am CHINA CAMP main entrance. Medium to long run this weekend on the trails. "For Napa-ites (those running Napa Marathon) who need to get their "joneses" this weekend, we will turn you around early so you stay rested for next weekend."
> LINDA LINDSAY and her teammate won last year's NEVADA CHALLENGE and are slated to defend their title this year in Feb. The idea was to have a week-long competition involving biking, kayaking, climbing, running, and more to show off the state of Nevada. You will see her picture on the home page: http://www.landroverg4challenge.com/. The details of the event are spelled out there..
Saw the "SPIRIT OF THE MARATHON" movie on 2/21/08 featuring several men and women of different ages and abilities running the Chicago Marathon 2005. I think the production group did a very good job of catching all aspects of preparing and running the marathon. This film took five years to complete; illustrates again that it always takes more work to put together such a production.
RESULTS
Waiting to see COUPLES RELAY Results on the Club site...But our workout groups did very well, got in good speedwork; a contrast to the half marathon pace...DEB and JON RUSHMAN took the overall honors with some impressive running. Deb did 15 hill repeats with John Lundy on that Sat, then Sunday did a 5:36 first mile (I know because I was doing lead bike), held off Lisa Clarke and finished in about 11:30. Jon, who's been working horrendous hours, and commutes by bike to the City, ran like a hare being chased by the hounds and I think did the 2M in 11 minutes or better. Congrats to them and their superb effort. ....TIM MCCARTHY and JANET KJELMYR placed in their division with a PR for Janet; also JEANIE SAWAYA hit her PR, ANN CHARLTON hit a solid time for herself: so it was good practice and now everyone knows they can run faster than they thought.
NOTE: our next important race will be the ACROSS THE BAY 12K in March. Let's make sure those in our workout groups are Tamalpa members (http://www.tamalparunners.org/) and that you sign up for the yearly PA/USATF card so that your efforts count towards team scoring- for all 2008 races. I am sure we can field several teams for this event in several categories. Even if you run these races for your own fun, let's have your efforts count towards team scoring: often teams lose out because they are a member short to complete a full team...
more to come... ¶ 8:10 AM
2/18/08. MONDAY, The Tour de California goes from Sausalito-Santa Rosa starting at 11am. We plan to bicycle out to 4.5M north of Pt. Reyes Station to see the Peloton go by.
2/19/08. TUES. 6:30am TEMPO at China Camp.
We plan to keep Brad and John on track with race pace work for Napa Marathon. they have both been getting in distance and quality as they prepare to run about 2:50 for the race: not easy.
2/19/08. TUES. 9am group. NO ORGANIZED workout for eithe Ross or Tenn. Valley.
We decided that with everyone scattered with families on vacation break we would cancel. (I'm meeting with my Dad's finance man that am now anyway).
2/21/08. THURSDAY. 7am TRACK at COM.
2/21/08. THURSDAY. 9am Gp. - NO TRACK SESSION.
2/24/08. SATURDAY. 7am HILL REPEATS at McGinnis Park. doing 17 reps - we are on track for getting to 20 reps for several sessions before tackling the course. Once we get to 20 reps, you will do every 4th one faster - or at least the last 100 feet as a pickup. That will get you used to pushing that nasty last 100 meters on Cardiac.
By the way, last Saturday, the large owl we saw during the warmup along the marsh and ponds was a BARN OWL. quite something.
2/25/08. SUNDAY (coach JASON JACOBSON'S Workout) 6:30am CHINA CAMP main entrance. Medium to long run this weekend on the trails. "For Napa-ites (those running Napa Marathon) who need to get their "joneses" this weekend, we will turn you around early so you stay rested for next weekend."
> LINDA LINDSAY and her teammate won last year's NEVADA CHALLENGE and are slated to defend their title this year in Feb. The idea was to have a week-long competition involving biking, kayaking, climbing, running, and more to show off the state of Nevada. You will see her picture on the home page: http://www.landroverg4challenge.com/. The details of the event are spelled out there..
Saw the "SPIRIT OF THE MARATHON" movie on 2/21/08 featuring several men and women of different ages and abilities running the Chicago Marathon 2005. I think the production group did a very good job of catching all aspects of preparing and running the marathon. This film took five years to complete; illustrates again that it always takes more work to put together such a production.
RESULTS
Waiting to see COUPLES RELAY Results on the Club site...But our workout groups did very well, got in good speedwork; a contrast to the half marathon pace...DEB and JON RUSHMAN took the overall honors with some impressive running. Deb did 15 hill repeats with John Lundy on that Sat, then Sunday did a 5:36 first mile (I know because I was doing lead bike), held off Lisa Clarke and finished in about 11:30. Jon, who's been working horrendous hours, and commutes by bike to the City, ran like a hare being chased by the hounds and I think did the 2M in 11 minutes or better. Congrats to them and their superb effort. ....TIM MCCARTHY and JANET KJELMYR placed in their division with a PR for Janet; also JEANIE SAWAYA hit her PR, ANN CHARLTON hit a solid time for herself: so it was good practice and now everyone knows they can run faster than they thought.
NOTE: our next important race will be the ACROSS THE BAY 12K in March. Let's make sure those in our workout groups are Tamalpa members (http://www.tamalparunners.org/) and that you sign up for the yearly PA/USATF card so that your efforts count towards team scoring- for all 2008 races. I am sure we can field several teams for this event in several categories. Even if you run these races for your own fun, let's have your efforts count towards team scoring: often teams lose out because they are a member short to complete a full team...
more to come... ¶ 8:10 AM
