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Written by Bwana Bwana

March 28, 2013

Spring is not ready for prime time. Lance Bland, Michael Goldfine, Dana Todd, Mike Casper, Kevin Becker, Jeff Welsh, newcomer Robbie, John Iceland, Rich Harter, David Lloyd, Sara Noss, Amy Blake, and Marty Mazur could have run outside, but we’ve been inside so long that we all ran on autopilot to the Multi-Sport Facility.

Almost half the runners at the track had run last weekend’s Egg Hill 10 Miler, and were complaining of a little burnout. But Spring 5K season is starting to pick up (two this weekend), so no let-up. Bwana gave a 5K-appropriate workout: 2-person 6X2 lap relays. The ideal pace for these is almost mile race pace. The thing about relays is that even though we’re not strictly competing (too big a pace spread among our regulars), we each tend to get sucked in to a little competitiveness. Maybe there’s another team right at your pace that you don’t want to drop behind. Maybe you want to try to lap a slower team (or not get lapped by a faster one!). So we all tend to run a little faster than if we were running repeat 2 lappers. And kicking it up a notch helps us all get faster!

The long-term forecast for next week is: warm! Finally! Even if that should change, Bwana is right now dictating that next week’s workout will be outside!