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Written by Bwana Bwana

June 30, 2015

Thursday Track has had a bit of a revival lately. Mid-Summer is usually the time when a good part of the Crew is on vacation an given week. Yet from week to week, we’ve had at least 20 runners, and sometimes close to 30. Today, despite the heat and humidity, 23 showed up: Tom Cali, Lance Bland, Judd Michael, Ken Davis, George Lesieutre, Carole Dudukovich, Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, Michael Goldfine, Rob Peterson, Kevin Becker, Mike Renz, John Ake, Mike Zimmerman, Andy Cunningham, CJ Wagner, Torrie Raisch, Jo Ohm, Tony Kwasnica, Rich Harter, Adam Ilgen, David Lloyd, and Marty Mazur all took advantage of a slight break in the weather, from horrid to just plain torrid.

When it’s sweltering, Bwana likes to shorten up the reps, but increase the pace. Today Lance suggested 400s, a good choice for the conditions. Anything longer makes each rep a puke risk. But the pace should be close to the red line: at least 5K race pace. So we did 6X400 with 200 meter rests. The rest was not enough for full recovery, but the pace was to be semi-torrid and consistent.

Bwana had a vacation a couple of weeks ago. Next week, and maybe the week after, he’ll be away on business. Puget Sound is a great place to run, and Bwana knows a nice shady place. Hopefully, the rest of you will stay semi-cool, and semi-torrid.