APPROACHING WEEK 3
Come 10 minutes early on Saturday to sign up if you'd like to join us. $30 for the program, and $20 for club dues if you're not already a member.
Here is the 2007 SCHEDULE, meeting at 9 am every Saturday at the following locations:
Week 1. Feb. 24–Steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Week 2. March 3–Steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Week 3. March 10–Steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Week 4. March 17–Parking Lot for Roosevelt Island
Week 5. March 24–Roosevelt Island (National Marathon is on this day)
Week 6. March 31–Fletcher’s Boathouse (Cherry Blossom Race is next day)
Week 7. April 7–Fletcher’s Boathouse
Week 8. April 14–Bluemont Park, Arlington
Week 9. April 21–Bluemont Park, Arlington
Week 10. April 28–East Falls Church Metro Parking Lot
Week 11. May 5–Stanton Square in DC (near Union Station at Mass & MD Aves.)
Week 12. May 12–Stanton Square in DC (near Union Station)
Week 13. Sunday May 20, 2007 at 8 :30 am at Stanton Square CHC 10K RACE
WEEK 2 with the dcrrc 10K Training Group:
About 10 new participants showed up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by 9 a.m., and then three groups of runners went out along the Mall, a beginner's group with Arnetta and Gary, an intermediate group with Kristin, and an advanced group with Bob and Rhea.
Gary and Arnetta’s group started out at a walk until they warmed up, then did some running down Ohio Drive by the Potomac. They went by the Jefferson Memorial and underneath the highway bridges towards Haines Point, some of them, before they returned to the Lincoln Memorial.
Kristin had her charges go out on a run from Lincoln past Korea, WWI, WWII, Washington and the Carousel (in front of the Castle, the site of last year's TUMS speed workouts on the Mall) before turning and coming back, a little over 3 miles in about half an hour.
Bob and Aaron, and Rhea and Amanda, went out all the way up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court Building before coming back, 5 miles in about three quarters of an hour. They ran up the exact hill that participants will hit in the fifth mile of the goal race, the CHC.
Everybody looked really good. There were liquid refreshments at the end of the run and many runners lingered to talk with their coaches and others.
NEXT WEEK: Next Saturday, 3/10/07 at 9 am, we’ll meet on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the last time. Anyone who missed these two weeks and wants to sign up for the program, come a few minutes early to fill out the applications for the program ($30) and the club ($20) (if you’re not already a member). Please bring payment.
RUN ON YOUR OWN:
This week you all should run two or three times easily on your own time, 25 to 30 minutes each time. On Saturday, each coach will take you out from the Lincoln Memorial on a route they choose that is a little further than we went last week. The goal race is the Capitol Hill Classic 10K Race (CHC) on 5/20/07. If you want to run the race in the spring at the conclusion of the program, you must sign up at the CHC website. Also, look at the Wednesday evening track workout schedule at 7:15 pm every Wednesday at the Washington & Lee High School Track in Arlington. Speed workouts will make you better. If anyone is interested in going to a track workout and wants me to be there to give them guidance (the Track Workout Program Director, Club President Ed Grant, is an excellent coach and usually there), contact me and I’d be happy to attend the tr
ack workout and work with them if I am able to.MORE INFORMATION:
Be wild and comment on this blog! Amanda did. Look at Amanda as she ran last year's Army 10-Miler. Is she having fun or what? (Photo credit Ashley.)
Feel free to comment on the forum link, also.
TRAINING HELP:
Here is a link to Marathon Guide’s pace and training charts. It is a good place to start for runners turning to the Internet for help with their training. See you Saturday!
1 comment:
Well written article.
Post a Comment