Well, March finally got here. It's a good thing it decided to show up before the middle of April! Judd Michael, Lance Bland, George Lesieutre, Michael Goldfine, Ken Davis, Mike Renz, Andy Maguire, John Wilcock, Lee Culver, Ron Cunfer,  Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, John Iceland,  Fred Wright, Garren Katz,  Matthew DeMichele, Amy Blake, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur also decided to show up for the first outdoor track workout of the season.

 

With the arrival of Spring, Bwana waxed nostalgic. Thursday Track has been going on as a regular gig for 20 years now! Bwana recalls the first time he came to the track, perhaps a bit longer ago than that. It was a Spring day, sunny, cool, and a bit windy. Not unlike today. There on the track was a middle-aged, white haired guy doing 800s. Bwana thought it would be an easy thing to toddle along with him for a bit, and then do a real workout. What he didn't know was what kind of shape he was in (poor) and what kind of shape the older gent was in (pretty darned good!). Bwana nearly died doing his first 800 in 3:16, which was no sweat off Keith Ord's (the older guy's) brow. That little throwdown inspired Bwana to keep up the work. It wasn't long until Thursday Track became a regular thing and Bwana was regularly churning out sets of 800s in the 2:40s and 2:50s. And he acquired a Crew who could do them even faster. Most of us Charter Trackers don't run anywhere near that fast anymore (if we run at all), but we seem to have taken on a few younger runners who can run close to that if the mood carries them. And Bwana? He's the white-haired guy, though he still has a hard time with that 3:16 mark!

 

Drawing me away from my reveries…the workout today was the original "No Brainer" workout. The thing the old Crew did when they couldn't think of what else to do, like on the first outdoor workout of Spring. That being 400-800-800-400. It's a short workout, but the Bwana Twist is that the back half should be faster than the front half.