GOforever / Team BRC Newsletter - 1/17/22
Weekly Group Runs
Tuesday - 6:00 DTC Store - Half Penny Beer after
Wednesday - 6:00 Littleton Store
Thursday -6:00 Cherry Creek store - Run on the Cherry Creek Trail
Saturday - 7:30 DTC Store
9:00 Littleton Store
(Saturday runs in City Park will resume in May with the start of the Farmer's Market)
Sunday 8:00 Wash Park (corner of Mississippi and Franklin) The Wash Park loop is 2.5 miles and you can do as many loops as you want
Upcoming Races
1/22 - Frosty's Frozen Half/10/5k - Hudson Gardens, Littleton
1/23 - Yeti Chase 5K/10K, Bear Creek Lake State Park, Lakewood
Local News
Registration for the Bolder Boulder, Cherry Creek Sneak and the Boulderthon is now open! Registration for the Colfax races is open and there is a price increase coming on January 26th.
Looking for a warm dry race in January and February but don't want to travel, Try a USATF Indoor ace :https://colorado.usatf.org/
Maggie Montoya of Boulder ran a 2:29.08 marathon to finish third at the Houston Marathon last weekend. Maggie was working in the Pharmacy at Kings Sooper in Boulder during the shooting last year.
For any High School coaches out there, I attended the annual Boulder Running Clinic last weekend and it was amazing.
Update from last week:
Nick Willis failed to break the 4:00 mile for the 20th year at midnight on New Year's but he will be trying again on January 29th.
Team BRC and GOforever RACING
Achieve your goals in 2022!
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Coaches Blog (Races)
We All Make Mistakes
Yes we all make mistakes. Every January, I look back at the previous year in my running log to see where I went wrong. Something surely must have gone wrong because again I failed to run that 2:20 marathon that I had all planned out last January.
Here's an example of some of the mistakes I made last year, I also included some from previous years as I didn't make enough mistakes last year to put together a meaningful blog:
I ignored the weekly long run. As soon as my planned Marathon was canceled, I stopped the long runs cold turkey. Long runs are THE best way to build aerobic endurance and develop a Marathoners metabolism
I ran too hard on my recovery days which led to running easier on my hard days. By the end of the year every day looked the same; not too hard, not too easy. Easy days need to be easy enough to allow recovery!
Skipped periodization again. My training in January looked a lot like my training in September. If I had followed periodization correctly, I would have been working on aerobic endurance in January and February and Anaerobic endurance in September.
I fell off the strength training wagon every month or so. As I get older, I know the importance of maintaining strength (use it or lose it).
Early in the year, I discovered the benefits of a high fat, low carb diet but over time, those nasty simple carbs worked their way back into my diet. As I get older, insulin resistance is a thing that needs to be addressed more each year.
The good news is that I kept a running log so I could go back and see my mistakes
2022 Team BRC Race Schedule
The schedule will also be posted at goforeverracing.com and will be updated as more race info becomes available
