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Written by Bwana Bwana

October 24, 2013

Flurries were spotted on campus today, and it was cold, cloudy, and blustery as Tom Cali, Meira Minard, Bob Cornwall, Lance Bland, Michael Goldfine, Andy Maguire, Mike Zimmerman, John Affleck, Phil Ross, Rich Harter, David Lloyd, Aisling Ryan, Ron Cunfer, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur headed for the track. The outdoor track. 40 degrees is not quite "Indoor" weather, especially in October.

Bwana started off the Half-Marathon Training Season, six weeks of workouts before the Nittany Half. All long stuff that's hard to do in volume in the swelter of summer. Today we did the Whitman Sampler of Long Stuff, also known as the Fire Escape Workout: 1200-1000-800, a downward ladder with the steps at the bottom gone. Do the first one at 5K+ race pace and do each rep successively faster, taking 400m rests between reps. Over the next few weeks, we'll continue the long stuff with some change-ups to keep it interesting.

The weather will be cycling back and forth between blustery and beautiful until Winter finally takes its stand at the podium. It's really the best time of year to run!  With regard to the Nittany Half, it's really a matter of just when Winter takes the stage. Will the Half feature temperatures in the 60s? Probably not this year, since the race was moved to the second week of December due to December 1 being part of a late Thanksgiving weekend. OK, so will it be 42 and calm (perfect!), or 28 and blowing with ice on the ground (Yeesh!)? We can only hope that the perfect weather lasts until at least December 8th.