Hi Y’all,

I hope everyone had a great week.  We are back on the hills this week to continue to build up our base.  We’ve got a total of 5 more Saturdays of hills, but who’s counting?!?  Your body will THANK YOU come that first long easy run…maybe we should rename that week the Cake Walk.

Pace Groups
We are working on pace groups this week.  We’ll get those up as soon as we get everyone situated.  There are a handful that I may reach out to, as your distance HM/FM didn’t capture when you registered.  For those that have not done the MM, please either  A) Do it and let me know, B) Help me out with a previous race time or C) Remember this request when you wonder why you’re not in a group 🙂

Saturday – Same  Time, Same Place
Full Marathon: 5:45AM – Meet at Turner High School Track for Hills. 7 HILLS – 70-minutes

Half Marathon: 6:05AM – Meet at Turner High School Track for Hills – 4 HILLS – 50 minutes

The group will then meet back at the track at 6:55AM for CORE work and should be wrapped up by about 7:10AM.  Be sure to bring your mat or towel…that track is tough on planking elbows.

A reminder of HILLS in Ric’s words: The objective of this weekend’s run is completing the prescribed number of hills close to the pace suggested.  In years past we have had you run to the marked lines, not this year. This year you will do an easy run to the base of the bridge (just before you start the incline). Then you will run up the bridge (hill) at a 5-10K pace. Once at the top you can either jog or walk down to the bottom on the other side. Once you reach the flat part of the bottom of the hill, turn around and run back up and jog/walk to the bottom (flat portion) of the other side.  Don’t worry about making it to the line…just the bottom of the hill. If you have an odd number of hills one week, you will run to the top and turn around at the top of the hill and then easy run back to Turner to get the scheduled minutes of total running in for the day.  Please make sure that when running up/down the hill that you always stay to your right to allow people to pass on the left if they need to (going up or down). There will be a lot of folks on the hill so we need to make sure we leave everyone plenty of room.

Please let us know if you have any questions.  Have a great run!

Aimee Galley