Have you planned out which races to train for? You doing the new San Diego 1/2 Marathon in March that ends @ Petco Park? Are you doing one of the San Diego Running Institute trail races - http://www.dirtdevilracing.com/ What about triple crown – you doing Carlsbad, La Jolla and AFC? No matter what race you are training for, consider re-joining our group in this new year – we look forward to continuing to provide an amazing training environment where everyone feels supported and goes out and does their best in their individual races – much more fun to train with a

Last week we did some 1000M repeats – what did you all think of those? Here are the times: Miné – 4:43, 4:32, 4:29 Chris Dobbs – 4:08, 3:59, 3:50 Andrew B – 5:02, 4:45, 4:49 Cait Graham – 4:39, 4:45, 4:43 Ed MacBean – 4:03, 3:59, 3:50 Fonda – 5:02, Christopher Walden – 3:33, 3:23, 3:16 Jen Martin – 6:26, , 5:52 Greg A – 4:42, 4:28, 4:11 Nairobi – 4:38, 4:33, 4:10 Angel F – 3:33, 3:26, 3:27 Michael Bellock – 4:09, 4:10, 4:03 Jonathan Mello – 5:16, 5:23, 6:00 Abdul – 6:41, 6:40 Travis Scarpace – doing

You would think the night before thanksgiving we wouldn’t have had much of a showing for track – but that was not the case, we had a great group and since the Vavi group was not using the field we improvised and did a special X’s workout. Thank you to everyone that attended:  Jonathan Mello, Fonda & John Wood, Andrew Borrelli, Naoriobi, JerMichael Joseph, Ed MacBean, Stacy Edwards, Jen Martin, Abdul Sayid, Christopher Walden, Sam Sarcia, Manfred, Johannah and our first timer Ken Saragosa – good times were had by all. If you were out of town and missed the

From track last week – 3 minutes on, 1 minute off x 4-6 rounds, cover as much distance as possible Thank you to my lovely assistant Karen Shaver for helping track the laps, our apologies if we missed one or two Chris Dobbs – 10 laps Fonda Wood – 7 laps Cait Graham – 9 laps Travis Scarpace – 7 Miné Okano – 11 Abdul Sayid – 4 Jen Martin – 6 Michelle – Warnecke – 7 Eric Brandle – 8 Ed MacBean – 12 Manfred Mueclle – 9 Sam Sarcia – 12 laps Greg Araujo – 10 Christopher Walden

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