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Friday, June 5, 2009

Summer 2009 - week one & week two

Sorry for the late post on week one. Congrats to EC and MK for the advancement to the NCAA East Regional and congrats to EC for advancing to the upcoming NCAA Championships!

Summer 2009 training has arrived! Twenty-seven men and eighteen women begin the conditioning phase for fall semester. One of the twenty-seven men, incoming SR, will compete at his state meet this weekend, then take a short break before starting.

Hopefully, by now, you have read through the spreadsheet tab 'SUMMER NOTES'. If not, please make sure you do as soon as possible. While very similar to previous versions, the NOTES have been updated.

The first two weeks should be easy weeks, just getting back into the swing of things. Don't push the pace on your runs, just get back into a rhythm of training. Your Monday easy fartlek should consist of running your daily mileage with at most a few pace changes, just a few pick-ups or surges. Your Wednesday threshold run should just be at most an uptempo run, don't worry about reaching a true anaerobic threshold pace...yet. And your Saturday long run should be at an easy pace, just get the mileage in.

Finally, to emphasize again, hit YOUR weekly mileage target. And men should email their totals to COACH, while women should email their mileage to ASST COACH.

Happy Running!