GOforever / Team BRC Newsletter - 2/3/22

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 (meet at the Washington Park sign at the corner of Mississippi and Franklin)

                         The Wash Park loop is 2.5 miles and you can do as many loops as you want

Note:  all the paths are quickly shoveled after snowfalls

Upcoming Races

2/6 - Super Bowl 5K, 9:00 Wash Park, Denver

2/13 - Snowman stampede HM, 10K, 5K, Hudson Gardens, Littleton

Local News

Team BRC and The Boulder Running Company now have a Strava Club.  Search "Boulder Running Co." and join.  The club will have information on group runs and you can follow many of your fellow runners

Registration for the Bolder Boulder, Cherry Creek Sneak and the Boulderthon is now open! 

Congratulations to Boulder's Dathan Ritzenhein and  his Boulder trained O.A.C Team.   Alicia Monson, Geordie Beamish and Olie Hoare won the W3000, M3000 and Mens Mile respectively at last week's Millrose Games at the Armory in NYC.  Millrose is considered the most competitive indoor race in the US

Also, Nick Willis of the Very Nice Track Club did manage to break 4:00 minutes in the mile for the 20th consecutive year

Team BRC and GOforever RACING

Achieve your goals in 2022!

GOforeverRacing is offering free two week training plans through their website GOforeverracing.com.  Custom plans are also available for purchase.  Plans will not be cookie cutter plans but will be constructed to meet your individual needs.

Coaches Blog (Races)

Borrowing with Integrity

When I started running many years ago, there wasn't a lot of available information about running.  Few coaches were experienced distance runners; there were few good books on the sport and electronic social media hadn't been invented yet.  My primary source of running information came from Runner's World Magazine.  Now there are almost limitless  books, blogs, message boards, podcasts, experienced coaches…..

Be it good or bad, most of the information today is second hand.  Coaches, writers and bloggers borrow from those who went before them.  Today, much of the information spreading around the cyberworld is science based and time tested, but some is not.

Like most other bloggers today,  I borrow my thoughts and facts from those before me.  I like to think of it as "borrowing with integrity".  While I read a lot,  I try to limit my sources to those I have learned to trust.  The following is a list of some of my influencers and what I learned from them:

Arthur Lydiard - Run by feel, periodization, the power of aerobic endurance.

Lorraine Moeller - The Science of Lydiard Training

Dr Jack Daniels - Training zones and VO2 max tables, it's better to slightly undertrain than over train

Jay Johnson - Consistency is key,  run fast almost every day

George Sheehan - The philosophy of running

Tim Noakes - The science of running, sugar is bad

Kevin and Keith Hanson - Follow your running dreams

Joe Friel - Running and Aging

Joe Newton, Vince Lombardi, John Wooden - Leadership

2022 Team BRC Race Schedule

The schedule will also be posted at goforeverracing.com and will be updated as more race info becomes available