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Written by Bwana Bwana

September 19, 2013

What a nice day! And a nice turnout: Jim Myers, Tom Cali, Meira Minard, Allison Machnicki, Bob Cornwall, Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Andrew Webb, Randy Jepson, Costas Maranas, Marty Klanchar, Michael Goldfine, Mark Fedkin, Mike Martin, Kevin Becker, Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, Kim Nelson, David Lloyd, Aisling Ryan, Torrie Raisch, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur showed their faces at the track. People were getting ready for Fall by wearing their summer colors! Mike Casper showed up to give an announcement about the Discovery Runs wearing Bermuda shorts! Costas wore a gold NVRC shirt. And Meir-cougar was even wearing her birthday pants!

Bwana continued a string of letting other people call the workout. Today was Sara's turn. Sara is such a sweetie. She went easy on the group by calling the old Whitman Sampler, a downward ladder of 1K to 200m in 200m decrements. Start at 5K+ pace and work yourself down to something short of a sprint on the 200. Yes, it's supposed to be a challenge to run each step at a faster pace, but somehow the "downward" part wins out, at least psychologically, and the workout seems easy, at least compared to other workouts.

Bwana continued his two-a-day prep for the mOUnTaiNBACK by running nearly 6 miles in Rothrock. So did quite a few of today's trackers. It's great to get some late Summer and Fall runs in now. Do it while you can! The almanacs and entrail readers are all calling for a hard Winter!