The DC Road Runners Club (dcrrc) has developed its 10-Mile Group ("TMG") Training Program specifically with the Army 10-Miler (ATM) as its target race. This is a 12-week group training program, costing $40, which is scheduled to start on July 12, 2008. It meets each Saturday morning for a group run at different locations around the DC-metro area. The location usually changes every two weeks. The Program is planning to meet for the first three weeks at Gotta Run Running Store in South Arlington on Pentagon row at 8 am.
The Program will take registrations and payment at that location prior to the Saturday long run during those first three weeks. After that the Program will switch meeting time to 7:30 am on Saturdays, and meeting locations, to places TBA.
The Saturday runs get increasingly longer until they are in the 10-12 mile range by the end of the TMG Program. You should be able to run 3 miles or longer at the onset of the TMG Program to consider taking the TMG Program, and get your doctor’s approval before you embark upon strenuous physical activity.
There will be different paced running groups. Each runner is offered the opportunity to do an organized track workout on his or her own each Wednesday evening during the Program. (Right: Two runners in last year's 10-Mile Training Program jog around the Tidal Basin. This picture was featured in the national magazine Cooking Light on its feature ranking DC as the third best city in which to to live and eat. Photo credit Douglas Merriam.)
Each runner will be assigned a volunteer group leader, and should run on his or her own two to three other times each week, three to six miles each time.
The cost of the Program does NOT include the cost of the ATM registration. Race entry does NOT come with the Program, each runner should sign up for the race on his or her own, although running in the race is not required to take the Program. The runner must be a dcrrc member to take the Program, however.
The ATM race is already sold out. There are plenty of other races in the fall that the Program should enable a runner to enter, such as the Baltimore Marathon weekend Half-Marathon the week following the ATM, and other local races. A viable option for those closed out of Army is the Lower Potomac River 10-Miler in Piney Point, MD on October 12, 2008 at 7:45 am.
Keep watching the dcrrc website for further information on the TMG Program. You may sign up for club membership by going to the website and downloading a club application form and sending it in to the club, prior to coming to the first or second week of the Program and registering for the TMG Program.
The 10K Group ("TKG") Training Program:
(Left: A group of runners cross over the Potomac during the club's springtime 10K Training Program.) The Program will also accommodate participants who wish to run in the Rediscovery 10K Race on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 8 am on Haines Point in DC, starting and ending at West Potomac Park in the District.
This 10K component will also cost $40 and will meet at the same places and times as the TMG Program. It starts on Saturday, 7/12/08 at 8 am at Gotta Run Running Shop and runs for 14 weeks. It will meet for training runs two additional weeks, on Saturday 10/4/08 and Saturday, 10/11/08, at places TBA. Participants wishing to participate in the TKG Program and run in the 10K race should be prepared to run/walk 1.5 miles the first week. The TKG does not have a walking pace group. The TKG Program will be run very similar to the TMG Program, described above, only with a lesser mileage amount each week.
The cost of the Program does NOT include the cost of the Rediscovery 10K Race registration. Race entry does NOT come with the Program, each runner should sign up for the race on his or her own, although running in the race is not required to take the Program. The runner must be a dcrrc member to take the Program, however.
Further directions and information will be provided via the Forum chat room on the dcrrc website. To get a feel for how the Program has been operated in the past, peruse its blog right here.
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