Endurance

Thank you to everyone last week for being flexible when we found out we could not use the track.  We ended up going over to Laurel Street and running some hill sprints – how fun were those? Here are the results from last wednesday – Miné Okano – tapering for Silver Strand 1/2 Nairobi Romer – 10 – rock star Fonda Wood – 6 Karen Shaver Jen Martin – 8 Manfred – 8 Brian Fahmie Abdul Sayid – 4 (first time running with us) – great job Jonathan Mello – 8 Christopher Walden – 10 Ed Macbean – 10 Sam

It was a GORGEOUS Saturday morning and it wasn’t just because of the fabulous weather, but because there was some great smiling faces out for the 5K. The cove is a great place to run and although there was some puddle dodging everyone seemed to enjoy the scenery during their run. Here is the list of attendees along with their valiant efforts Jen Martin 17:04/34:38 Greg Asuajo 14:13/28:07 Manfred Muecke 13:17/27:49 Karen Shaver ran 1 mile woop woop happy the ankle held up 12:04 Shelley Warnecke 16:05/32:46 Jonathan Mello 21:45 (1.5miles) ran in some new shoes and hadn’t broken them

  You all ready for a great evening????? Today marks the beginning of our 12 week program to train for the Carlsbad 1/2 marathon in January – this will be our 3rd year in a row training a group for this race and its always such a great time.  Make sure you tell all your friends about it and get them to come out and join us. We are also hosting the Crossfit Chula Vista Endurance team tonight as they drop by to join the shennanigans.  Please makes sure they feel welcomed. After the workout everyone is going to Station

Are We Built to Run Barefoot? By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS At a recent symposium of the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual meeting in Denver, cutely titled “Barefoot Running: So Easy, a Caveman Did It!,” a standing-room-only crowd waited expectantly as a slide flashed up posing this question: Does barefoot running increase or decrease skeletal injury risk? “The answer,” said Dr. Stuart J. Warden, an associate professor of physical therapy at Indiana University, “is that it probably does both.” Barefoot running remains as popular and contentious a topic among exercise scientists as it is among athletes, even though it is practiced by

Hey everybody, congratulations and thank you for a fun past 5 weeks. Can you believe the 5 weeks came and went just like that? What did you learn? How did the race turn out? What did you think of the training?  What would you have done differently? I understand some of you were not able to complete the training program because of injuries or for other reasons – do not be disappointed, it’s part of life. Here are some of the highlights from the race – Angel was 2nd overall with a time of 18:40 – he may have been off

One year from now, the 2012 Olympic Games will begin in London, where all eyes will be on the incomparable Usain Bolt — the Jamaican sprinter who is more than living up to his name. Since 2008, Bolt has taken a jackhammer to the 100-meter world record, lopping off a whopping .14 seconds. That might not sound like a huge chunk of time until you consider it’s twice as much as any other sprinter has shaved off the world record since the advent of electronic scoring. Logically, one would think that Bolt did so by moving his legs faster than

Track on Wednesday proved to be full of surprises.  We had the athlete’s run in the opposite direction on the track, we don’t do it often but I am thinking we will do so more often.  The work portion was 5 minutes of running at faster than 5k race pace and rest for 2 minutes, and complete 4 rounds. We discussed race day nutrition for different events as well and there were some sample from San Diego Running Insitute of Honey Stingers – both the chews and the gels.  People seemed to really like the chews and we looked at

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. It’s a time of family, friends, and indulging in delicious feasts! However, there are thousands of people in San Diego County who don’t have enough to eat on Thanksgiving – or on most days. As a valued past participant of the United Race for the Hungry 10K/5K, we hope you will join us again this year to help feed those in need on Thursday, November 24 . REGISTER NOW http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1972427 Runners and walkers alike will enjoy a fast and scenic pet-friendly course through the heart of downtown San Diego, beginning at Petco Park and

150s proved to be a tough workout for most… Christopher Walden – 23, 23, 23, 22, 22, 22, 21, 21, 21, 21  - way to get faster J Miné Okano – 33, 31, 32, 38, 37, 35 – racing this weekend – SheRox Tri Fonda Wood J  doing Nike Women’s Marathon in SF this weekend Ingrid Rivera J rehabbing ankle and getting ready for physical fitness test in November Kate LaMons – 28, 29, 27, 27, 27, 28, 27, 27, 27, 27 Trish Dombrosky – 27, 28, 28, 28, 28, 28, 27, 30, 27 Juan Carlos Bellock – 23, 22,

Everyone ready for a great night on the track?   Make sure to bring a stopwatch Here’s what we have in store – 10 x 150s – rest 4 minutes between each.  These sprints should not deviate more than 2-3 seconds, all out efforts Did you plug in your 2 mile time trial from this past weekend to McMillan Run Calculator and compare that to the 5K Time Trial we did at the beginning of the training season? Here are the times from the people that attended Saturday – Traise – 15:49 Trish – 16:25 Angel – 14:40 (went a