Week 7 Aug. 25 the TMG will meet at Bluemont

Week 7 is at Bluemont Park off Wilson Boulevard in Arlington: Saturday Aug. 25 at 7:30 a.m the Ten-Mile Group (TMG) Program will meet at Bluemont Park in Arlington off Wilson Boulevard between Ballston and Seven-Corners.

Directions: Take I-66 to Ballston, South on Glebe Rd. Turn West onto Wilson Blvd., go about 1.5 miles and make a left onto N. Manchester Street and turn immediately left into the Bluemont Park parking area. There are tennis courts and a Ranger picnic shelter there with a comfort station. If that lot is full, go back to Wilson Boulevard and take a right (EB) for half a block and then turn left (north) onto N. Lexington St. and park next to the tennis courts in the Bon Air Park parking lot and walk across Wilson Boulevard to meet the TMG in the Bluemont Park parking lot. Observe parking restrictions, as the Arlington Police have been known to tow during our Bon Air races. Be careful to observe all parking restrictions around the park - do not get your vehicle towed or ticketed. For mapping purposes, search 5900 Wilson Boulevard Arlington Va 22205http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl

We'll meet at Bluemont Park for weeks 7 & 8 before moving to Gravelly Point in Virginia. A prior post both here and on the dcrrc webpage Forum (TMG chat room) has the full twelve week schedule.

Plan of Action for Week 7: You all should be running three or four times a week by now, no exceptions, three to five miles at a time. Go to club track workouts on Wednesday night as one of those runs.

Next Saturday (8/25) your coach will tell you what to do, but for Linda's group and Jeannie's group it will be four miles WB on the W&OD from Bluemont (MP 3.5) to MP 7.5 and back again. Eight miles total. Simple! An out-and-back. There is a water fountain just past (west of) Lee Highway between mile markers 5.5 and 6.

MP 7.5, the turnaround point, is one half mile past the bicycle bridge over Route 7 (see if you can spot the MP 7 marker on the bridge) just before you get to your next street intersection cutting across the trail, which is Shreve Road. If you cross Shreve Road, you've gone too far and you're on your own. If you wind up in Vienna, well, you've really gone a long way and should consider taking Metro back to East Falls Church (MP 5).

Matt's Group will do what Matt's Group does.

Last Week: Week 6, Aug. 18, was a mild morning and we took advantage of it by running a lot of miles at Fletcher's. Matt's Group went nine miles towards Bethesda on the Capital Crescent; Linda took her group 8 miles through Georgetown on the C&O, down Rock Creek Park, over the Memorial Bridge to Virginia, back over the Key Bridge and back to Fletcher's. Jeannie went 7 miles on the C&O between the Key Bridge and the Chain Bridge. Everyone ran really well. Homeland Security was called about the suspicious nature of our water cooler.

Run happy!