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Written by Bwana Bwana

March 17, 2016

It’s already greening up. I mean it is St. Patrick’s Day, and John O’Domico’s birthday, but those of us who have been around this town for a few years recall the St. Patrick’s Day Snow Storm of 2007, and other mid-March blasts of the Old North Wind. We remember that some of the worst storm’s in Winter come in March, and that Winter didn’t end last year until April. But it was mild, sort of sunny (with passing sprinkles) and humid as Jim Myers, John Domico, Lance Bland, Dan Coughlin, Davis Michael, Marty Klanchar, Meira Minard, Mike Renz, Bob Shafer, Mike Martin, Seth Senior, newcomer Matt Masullo, Adam Ilgen, Joel Niemann, David Lloyd, and Marty Mazur headed to the track. The long-range forecast has us thinking (knock on wood) that this amazingly mild Winter could be over.

The Crew has been taking the secret side entrance into the “officially” closed outdoor track the last two weeks. In a few months, the track will probably be torn up, to be replaced for the 2017 Big 10 Outdoor Track and Field Championships. But for now, it’s good to run on a quarter-mile track after spending all Winter getting dizzy going 8 loops to the mile. Bwana called the Default No-Brainer Workout, which is number one in the dusty book of track workouts, the one we always opened the outdoor track season with even back when all we had was an outdoor season (i.e. pre-MSF). That is: 400-800-800-400. Run your reps at 5K+ pace, but make the second half of the workout faster than the first. Rest: a generous, slow 400 between each rep.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to stay outside awhile. Spring is here. There are a lot of races, and a lot of good weather coming.