It was great to see a big turn out on Saturday, with many faces I haven't seen in a while, it's good to see you're finally out of hibernation.
The workouts are posted for this week. Those running late spring races are doing tempo runs, those running mid spring races are sliding over to hills and those with events early in spring are jumping on the track.
A couple of reminders for these workouts.
You should include 10-15 minutes of light running before any of these work outs and it'a always good to throw in a couple if strides also. Warming up will help you get the most out of your workout and probably make it a bit easier.
Remember it's also important to get a bit of a warm down after your workout. I know your'e tired and the last thing you want to do is run more but this will help with your recovery. Keep it nice and easy. Even if it's only a couple of laps on the track it will help.
When running a tempo run or for that matter a track workout make a plan for pacing before hand this will help you prepare mentally. Whether you want to increase the pace as you go or just maintain a certain pace. This will help you learn pacing and help you get the most out of the workout and again probably make it a bit easier. Being mentally prepared is just as important as being physically prepared.
If there is a group of you running a workout together take turns leading the pace. If you're leading it makes you focus on pacing and if you're following it gives you a bit of a break which is nice as it takes the pressure off of you and as in biking you can draft off of the others and let them pull you a long so it when it's your turn to lead you'll have a bit more in you.
In the end all of these will help you prepare, run and finish these workouts.
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