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Written by Bwana Bwana

March 27, 2015

It used to be we’d get at least one 70 degree day before the end of the month of March. But these last two winters have been long and cold, and so a “nice” day at the tail end of March is one where it’s cloudy with temperatures around 50 (even though the forecast calls for flurries before April finally gets here!) And because it was so “nice”, a good-sized crew of John Domico, Judd Michael, Ken Davis, Marty Klanchar, Andy Maguire, John Wilcock, Mark Lee, Jeff Welsh, Dan Mangieri, Rob Peterson, Alex Wouden, Mike Renz, Mike Martin, Mike Zimmerman, Rich Harter, Adam Ilgen, Dana Todd, David Lloyd, Sara Noss, and Marty Mazur showed up at the track.

For this week’s workout, Bwana gave 6 X 1 Lap progressive. It starts out nice and ends up about as nasty as you want to make it. Start in Lane 2 and run a lap at a 5K race pace or maybe a little slower. This will seem like a slow start. But after a half-lap rest, you move out to Lane 3 and run a lap in the same time or faster than your first. Continue this out to Lane 7. Each lap is 8+ yards longer than the last, so by Lane 7, you’re running about 50 yards farther than you were in Lane 2. The time for each lap should be the same or better than your last, and the rest is short, so play nice or you’ll be in serious trouble by Lane 7!

Looking ahead on the long-range forecast, April looks nice…and rainy! The first forecast 70 degree day may have to wait until May…May 8^th that is. Hopefully, things will pan out nicer than that!