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Written by Bwana Bwana

August 18, 2011

The Track Crew decided to take advantage of the last summer Thursday before the hordes descend. John Domico, Ken Davis, Costas Maranas, George Lesieutre, Bob Cornwall, Lance Bland, Andy Maguire, Frank Zaffino, Jon Thurley, Meira Minard, Beth Kempton, Lee Culver, Jim Laudermilch, John Wilcock, Mark Lee, Rich Harter, Ron Cunfer, Rob Peterson, and Marty Mazur headed for the track under blue skies with warm temperatures.

Though in July we had our first 100+ degree day here in State College in several years, and a 3 week dry spell to boot, the summer has been pretty mild overall.  Mild days, cool evenings, and rainy weekends have been the norm the last few weeks. This is nothing like the weather that visiting Beth Kempton has to deal with in Las Vegas. Beth will be doing the mOUnTaiNBACK with the DCR this year, and with her boyfriend. She claims she's out of shape, but Bwana thinks she was sandbagging. It's mOUnTaiNBACK season. What else?

Bwana gave the mini-front-loader workout: 800 at better than race pace, followed by 3X200, hard, with only 100m rest after the 800 and between each 200. You're recovering from the 800 as you work through the 200s and should be doing each 200 faster as you go. And did I mention? Do that whole thing twice.

Bwana can see that some people are starting to up their mOUnTaiNBACK training, but some are still working off summer chalupas. Greg Luna has been going to Tuesday Evening Track, but can't seem to make it twice in a week. He was seen plodding down Porter right after the workout. Rob Shaver, who also is also a Tuesday regular, was probably tying flies, or tying one on. Bwana seems to be the only one who has stepped it up to the next level: two regular speed workouts a week. And next week he'll kick it up yet another notch by doing a Two-a-Day every Thursday! Yep, next Thursday starts the Discovery Series training runs for mOUnTaiNBACK! See you there! (After the track!)