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Written by Bwana Bwana

August 25, 2011

Our irenic late summer training is about to be disturbed, and not by the inappropriately named hurricane that will likely only deliver a glancing blow to our area. No, our peace will be disturbed, already has been disturbed, by mOUnTaiNBACK training and trash talk. Tom Cali, John Domico, Ken Davis, Jim Moore, Bob Cornwall, Lance Bland, Costas Maranas, Marv Hall, Andy Maguire, Esther Prins, newcomer Elizabeth Desser, Kirk Rager, John Ake, Rich Harter, Dana Todd, Jim Laudermilch, Rob Peterson, and Marty Mazur headed for the track under drab skies with light breezes.

Bwana announced that he'd be doing two-a-days on Thursdays, as is his usual practice once the mOUnTaiNBACK Discovery Series training runs start. He quickly scanned the group to see who was likely to do the same, and who was missing whom he'd see in the evening. Then he gave the workout: 6X400 with short rest (200 m jogging). So the 400s would be done at slightly faster than a race clip and the workout would build on you because of the short recovery. Everyone bought into it and did well by it.

Bwana made it to Tussey in the evening and saw that Jim Moore, Andy Maguire, and Tom Cali from the lunch Crew were also ramping up their training by doing a two-fer. Meira rested on her not-inconsiderable laurels at noon, but took the mountain by storm in the evening. And several other erstwhile Trackers still haven't bought into the value of two-a-days for a race where people will be running at least two legs in one day: Amy Blake, Sarah Noss, Rob Shaver, Joe Montenegro, and John Sheakoski are still only up for one workout. Let's hope for their teams that that's enough...