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Written by Bwana Bwana

January 6, 2011

There must have been a bout of heavy resolution making last weekend, because Track attendance was pretty high for a Winter's day. Jim Myers, John Domico, Lance Bland, Jim Moore, Bob Cornwall, Costas Maranas, Jon Oatley, Meira Minard, John Sheakoski, Esther Prins, Rob Peterson, Mark Hilliard, Jerry Steffy, Judd Michael, Dana Todd, Kirk Rager, Rich Harter, newcomer Andy Maguire, Michael Goldfine, Miles Smith, "Tara Incognita", and Marty Mazur all showed up at the MSF.

People are prepping for the Indoor Mile Series, which always follows quickly on the heals of Christmas. The first race is on Saturday morning. Bwana gave his favorite Indoor Mile tune-up workout. A flat-topped pyramid: 3-4-4-3 laps in the outside lane with generous rest between. The 3s and 4s bracket the half-mile distance. The trick is to  run your first 3 lapper at just about mile race pace. Then do each of your 4s at a slightly faster (if you can) pace. Top it off with a 3 as hard as you can go with the energy you have left. The workout is designed to program your goal pace into your legs, and to give you a pretty good pre-race workout as well.

Meira Minard is taking a sabbatical from her Hill Queen duties and made a final  appearance with the lunchtime crew. She'll be student teaching in Bellefonte until May. But she hopes to see us on weekend runs. She won't be seeing us at races, however, unless she looks over her shoulder. She needs to win a couple more this year than last to finally secure the NVRC Race Series crown! Good luck to Meira in both of her pursuits. We still need a substitute Hill Queen...

The rest of you who aren't yet making good on your resolutions had better get to it! Bwana starts getting tough and cranky again next week!