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Written by Bwana Bwana

February 20, 2014

Everybody’s complaining about this winter. Yeah, like always. Bwana ceases to be surprised anymore by the “short weather memory” people have. He hears the same whines every year. And earlier this year, memories were playing tricks again. “It’s so SNOWY this winter!”. Well, up until a couple of weeks ago, it had actually been a pretty dry and not-so-snowy winter. Yet it was cold, and with few thaw breaks, so whatever snow we got stuck around. But then the snow came, and we caught up to “normal” pretty quickly. (“Normal” being a lot more snow than we’ve been averaging the last 6-8 years.) And so now the whines are justified. But Bwana wouldn’t listen to any whining from Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Lee Culver, Ron Cunfer, Costas Maranas, Michael Goldfine, John Sheakoski, Mike Martin, Andy Maguire, Mike Renz, Jim Laudermilch, Frank Zaffino, Kevin Becker, Jeff Welsh, Rob Peterson, Alex Wouden, John Iceland, Joe Bollinger, David Lloyd, Jaimie Wright, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur as they headed for the track. Why? Because it was warm! The snow was melting, though not yet nearly enough to clear the foot-and-a-half of snow on the outdoor track. Does this mean spring is coming? Yes. Of course. But it’s not here yet, and we’ve got about 6-8 weeks of "oscillating toward nice”.

But let’s prepare for spring. Just in case it’s warm enough start going outside (for good?) next week, Bwana gave the season ending benchmark: NX3X300. That’s N sets of 3X300 meters at close to mile race pace (or faster!) with just over 100 m rest between each 300 and about 300 meters rest between sets. N should be at least 3, as Bwana did. He didn’t see anyone tacking on another. It’s a draining, low recovery workout, but it’s over quickly, unlike this winter!

Hey, guess what! Bwana’s favorite spring race, one which he’s run every one of its 10 years, is the Run Around Egg Hill 10 Miler and Relay, and it’s only 5 weeks from Sunday! Think spring!