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Volunteers Needed For 24th Annual Twilighter 8K Next Weekend
The 24th Annual Rockville Rotary Twilight 8K, (a.k.a."the Twilighter," as DC area locals call it), organized by our running club, the MCRRC, is one of the most fun & festive races of the summer. The turnout -- of runners, volunteers, & spect...
Weekly Update: Some New Milestones
Hi Everybody,This week has been interesting week of workouts, to say the least.It started out with Tuesday's track practice, a gruelling 5 x 1600 workout at interval pace, interspersed with 400 recovery laps after each 1600, & bookended by the us...
9 Miles In Da Bank! Ka-Ching!
Before I get into a discussion of tonight's workout, I just want to say that I am determined this time around to get my mileage in in a much more steady fashion than I have been doing previously over the course of our running clinic.So, on that note ...
Track Workout: 7 Miles of As-Fast-As-You-Possibly-Can-Go!
I'm going to keep this entry short, because I've got a lot to do tonight:To read about tonight's track workout, please visit this link.Just a few additional comments: It was really nice to see my pal @runningrambling tonight at track practice. We ha...
Weekly Workout Update: Or, What's Been Happening Since The Last Blog Post. ;-)
Yes, it's been a bit busy & so I'm a bit behind on posting my workouts here. I typically post all workouts on DailyMile.com anyhow these days, so in future, am thinking about possibly just putting links to those entries in blog posts, instead of...
Track Workout: 7 Miles of Survival :)
Tonight's track workout was 1 mi warmup run + 5 x 1200 I + 5 x 400 E recovery + 1 mi cooldown run. That's 3.75 mi of speedwork + 3.25 mi of easy running, for a grand total of 7 mi. Frankly, I just didn't have it in me tonight & found it near imp...
Race Report: RRCA 10M Challenge
I'll spare you the blow-by-blow minutiae of the road race & for now, (since I'm still fairly exhausted!), will just reprint here what I wrote at DailyMile.com. :)"This was my very first 10M race. Whoa, they aren't kidding when they call this race...
Track Workout: Pushing Past Mental & Physical Fatigue Makes You Stronger!
Tonight's track workout: 1 mi warmup + 8 x 800 I + 8 x 400 E recovery + 4 x 100 R + 4 x 100 E recovery + 1 mi cooldown. That makes a total of 7.5 mi. For the 9:15 pace group, that translated into the following paces: 800 I = 4:17, 100 R = 0:30, 400...
7 Mile Run + 12 x Strides: All Caught Up on My Running!
Ran 7 mi tonight at an comfortable pace (an approximate 10:00 pace or possibly faster!) to make up for the missed 6 mi run + 4 x strides workout on Thursday & the 2 sets of 4 x strides that I missed from the previous 2 weeks (i.e., 1 set of 4 x s...
Exciting News: Cyberpenguin & Friends Will Possibly Be On ESPN Tonight (5 PM)!!!!
Just a quick blip of a post to say that Erik, myself, & Brent Ayer (the president of the RRCA) were all interviewed by ESPN at the USATF XC Championships, which was held on February 7th.So, in other words, if that segment doesn't end up on the cu...
Hill Workout (6 Miles Total): Feeling Maxed Out!
OMG, tonight's hill workout was TOUGH. We did 8 hill lengths interspersed with 8 downhill recovery laps. I had a bit of trouble sticking with my 9:15 pace group on the uphill runs, & was about 20 seconds behind the group each time up the hill. I ...
14 Mi Run + 10 Mi Walk: Almost Covered A Marathon Distance!
Just a brief post which I might update later:Did 14 mile group run this morning, & then walked 10 miles immediately afterwards. It was such a beautiful day (i.e., mid-fifties & sunny), it was impossible to resist the urge to be outside all d...
Track Workout: 5.75 Miles of Pure Effort!
Just got back from track practice. Phew! Tonight's speed work was challenging! Did 1 mi warmup + 5 x 1000 T + 200 E recovery + 1 mi cooldown. Doing the math, that makes 3 1/8 mi of speedwork & 5/8 mi of recovery laps. So, if you factor in the war...
10-Mile Group Run (Running Clinic): Cyberpenguins Waddle Much Faster in the Morning When Their Alarm Clocks Don't Go Off :)
Due to icy conditions, our coach changed the time & location of our long weekend run. We normally meet at 8 am, but today's workout was scheduled for 7 am, which meant having to get up at 5-ish am, in order to be ready in time to meet our carpoo...
Track Workout Cancelled Due to Snow, But That's Not Going To Stop Me :)
OK, so local area schools are closed, which means our club's track workout is cancelled for tonight.As I see it, there are four options: Use a treadmill, run on the road, find an open track (which might be difficult considering the 191 school cancell...
Movin' On Up! ;-)
Just a brief bit of news to share: Today the coach of our running clinic told me that he was moving me from the 10:30 pace group (which admittedly was not challenging enough for me, & was based on earlier race times, which I'd submitted during my...
Running Clinic: 5-Mile Track Workout
Went to our running clinic's 2nd week of track workout tonight. Did 1 mi warm-up, followed by 8x400 (at threshold pace), with each 400 of speed work followed by a recovery lap (another 8x400). So all in all, I did 5 mi. :) Today I noticed that I was...
Race Results: Shooting Star 4M
Official race results are in for today's Shooting Star 4M race.If you've read the previous post, you'll know the reason why I'm disregarding my race results. ;-)If not, you can read that race report either by scrolling down on the main page of this b...
Race Report: Shooting Star 4M
Got up (late) at 7:15 am & got this morning's race at 8:02 am. Only problem with that was that the race started promptly at 8 am & they'd already started without me & one other fellow, who also dashed out onto the course at the same time!...
Club Run: 4.8 Miles in 16 Degree Weather
Tonight, I went on a group run this evening with members of our running club; a handful of people came out to brave the 16 degree temperature, which actually wasn't really that cold at all once we got moving. It also helped that it wasn't very windy...
2009 Racing Calendar Starting to Take Shape.....
Now that the MCRRC's 2009 race schedule has finally been posted (Yesssss!), I've been reworking my 2009 race schedule a bit.For logistical reasons, I've decided to drop the following races from my schedule:4/18/09, 6:30 am - Charlottesville Half Mara...
