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Written by Bwana Bwana

January 2, 2014

A snowstorm was blowing in and most of those who were working on this second day of the year were going to take the afternoon off to hunker down. But there was no hunkerin’ for the hunks and hunkettes of the Thursday Crew. Tom Cali, Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Michael Goldfine, Andy Maguire, John Sheakoski, Sara Noss, Mike Martin, Dean Capone, Mike Zimmerman, Aisling Ryan, Jon Thurley, and Marty Mazur headed for the indoor track for an unofficial Thursday Track workout, “unofficial” because the university is not yet in session. But we found a way to sneak into the Multi-Sport Facility.

Next weekend will be the first in the Indoor Mile Series. It’s a great winter tune up and a way to get your speed back after guzzling egg nog for two weeks. Bwana’s workout was appropriate prep: 2-3-4-3-2 laps in lane 5, all at the target mile race pace. And don’t be afraid to tackle this at the fast pace even if you’re only training for a spring 5K. It seems easy at the start: a quarter mile plus at your mile race pace seems slow and there’s a temptation to push it. But the rests were short (1 lap) and the 3 lapper starts to make the rest of the workout come into focus. Can you do the 4 at race pace? If so, after that you can indulge yourself and push it harder!

Thursday Track really gets started next week. We’ll be doing mile appropriate workouts for a few weeks, but most of these work well for 5Ks. Come on out. And sign up for the Indoor Miles. It’ll bring something new out of you!