Coach Blog: July 2015
More race-specific work in July. In a strange twist, we start with the national championships on the first weekend (Mel and Ryan) and then move to provincial championships later in the month.
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Coach Blog: June 2015
We ended May on a high note competitively, with some solid results on the roads in Ottawa.
Coach Blog: May 2015
In May we went back to only two workouts a week, down from what I’d say is 2.5 (a long run with some stuff in it being the .5).
Coach Blog: April
Things got busy, blogs didn’t get written. But I want to try to catch up and recap our spring because it’s been a key period I think in preparing us for the successes we’ve seen so far this summer.
Coach Blog: More PBs!!! (training March 16-30)
The weather has finally turned for real. The last couple weeks faked us out a bit, as we tried to go outside for some pretty tough tempos, and the last cold winds of winter were there to cut us up.
Coach Blog: Training March 9-15
Can we stop calling it Winter training yet? This week was much better in the weather department, with temps in the single digit minuses, and the sun coming out and melting a lot of the snow.
Coach Blog: Winter Training Feb 16-Mar 8
Ok, I am bundling a few weeks together here because it has been a busy few weeks.
Coach Blog: Winter Training February 9-15
We had a recovery week this week, and some solid races at the end.
Monday was a classic 20min tempo.
“How to get good at running” or Coach Blog: Winter Training Feb 2-8
This week was kind of one big long progression. Starting on Monday we went from 20min steady to 12min tempo to 8min at 10k effort.
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 26-Feb 1
Just grinding out the winter weeks now…Monday we continued with the fartlek progression: 30min of 3min at 10k effort, 2min Marathon effort.
Coach Blog: Training January 19-25
This week was a recovery week for the club, but not for me (more on that later!).
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 12-18
After last week’s false start in the cold, milder temperatures allowed us to get a little more work done early this week.
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 5-11
The New Year started off pretty rough. The first days back to group training featured temps below -30 and streets covered in ice, so we had to cancel the first practice of the year.
Coach Blog: The New Year
The new year is upon us. Steve Magness wrote an interesting blog post about what happens when you set out your resolutions in public.
Coach blog: Fall Training December
We had a good year. 85 PBs for the group starting in April with 5 at the St.
Coach Blog: Fall Training November 24-30
This was a second fairly big week, though we took the volume down a bit.
Monday: Progression run.