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Written by Bwana Bwana

October 30, 2014

On Tuesday, it was nearly 80 degrees. Today, a good 25 degrees cooler. What do you want for Halloween e’en, or, as we call it around here, “Official State College Beggars’ Night Because - Football”. Lance Bland, Mike Casper, Randy Jepson, Costas Maranas, Meira Minard and her pool boy Seth, Mark and Nikita Fedkin, Michael Goldfine, CJ Wagner, Mike Martin, John Affleck, Mike Zimmerman, Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, Rich Harter, David Lloyd, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur headed for the track under cloudy skies and definitely-not-short-sleeve temperatures.

Not only are the days getting shorter, but the time to the Nittany Half is shortening, too. Five Thursdays, including today, might just be enough time to ramp up some high-volume workouts. Last week was 3X1K. This time, Bwana gave a small bump up to 4X800 at 10K+ with 200m rests. Short recovery, so keep the pace steady, but not much faster than what you’ll be running on 5 weeks from Sunday.

Meirkat keeps using her charms to pull people off on runs up and down cow-patty strewn hills, over boulder fields, and the across the tarp covered swimming pools of Houserville. As if mixing it up once a week without worrying about side-stepping rattlesnakes and cowflop isn’t an actually inviting idea! Do your pace workouts any way you want, but they help!