GOforever / Team BRC Newsletter - 3/15/22
3/15/2022
Weekly Group Runs
Tuesday -
6:00 DTC Store - Half Penny Beer after
3/15 Sponsor DTC Nutrition
4/5 ON Demo Run
4/12 - New Balance Demo Run
Wednesday -
6:00 Littleton Store
Thursday -
6:00 Cherry Creek store - Run on the Cherry Creek Trail
Saturday -
7:30 DTC Store - Long Run
5/21 - Long run w/ New Balance @8:00
(Routes are on store Facebook Page)9:00 Littleton Store
9:00 Littleton Store
Sunday
8:00 Wash Park (meet at the Washington Park sign at the corner of Mississippi and Franklin)
Note: all the paths are quickly shoveled after snowfalls
Upcoming Races
3/19 - That Dam Run 5k/10k - Cherry Creek Lake State Park
3/19 - Canyonlands - HM & 5M - Moab, UT
3/27 - Rocky Mountain Road Runners 10M/20M training run - Thornton
4/3 - Donut dash 5K
4/3 - Rocky Mountain Road Runners 4M - City Park
4/18 - Boston Marathon
4/26 - Cherry Creek Sneak - Cherry Creek
Local News
The first Team BRC race is in the books with the Runnin of the Green 7K race last Sunday. The weather was perfect. Next Team Race is the Cherry Creek Sneak 5K, 5Mile and 10 Mile race in downtownCherry Creek. You may want to register early as prices increase April 1st.
Registration for the Pike's Peak Ascent and Marathon is now open. This year the race moves to September and registration fills up quickly so don't wait.
With the snow last week and the warmer weather this week, many of the Front Range Open Space parks will be closed this week due to mud; expect the closures to last throughout March as the frozen ground does not allow the mud to drain. Please don't be "that person" who leaves 6" deep tire or shoe prints in the trail.
As the Spring and Summer Racing season nears, we are looking at adding speed work sessions to our group run schedule. Stay tuned for more details.
The Rocky Mountain Road Runners Club was formed in 1959. After 62 years, the club is still going strong. The club hosts races of varying distances on the second Sunday of each month and they also host three Spring Half Marathon/ Marathon training runs on 3/28, 4/10 and 4/25 in Thornton. Races and training runs are affordable and are fully supported. Annual individual membership is only $50 which includes entry for club races and training runs. You can also drop into their races for as little as $10 per race. For more details go to www.rmrr.org
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Coaches Blog
Grant Fisher shattered the American Record for 10,000Ms at the TEN meet in San Juan Capistrano last week. Fisher runs for the Bowerman Track Club coached by Jerry Schumacher.
I recently listened to an interview with Fisher where he talked about Schumacher's training building up to his record run. Schumacher only planned three workouts a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). Fisher said that the three workouts were brutal and took him to the limits of his mind and body. On the other four days of the week, Fisher and his teammates were on their own to build aerobic endurance through easy runs. No throwing up on the track or seeing stars, just easy runs. Schumacher did not specify a mileage target, his runners were encouraged to run as many miles as possible but still show up on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday recovered enough to do the quality workouts.
Fisher and Schumacher's training philosophy matches that of Lydiard, Bowerman and Daniels. Hard is HARD and easy is EASY, with roughly eighty percent of the mileage falling in the relatively comfortable aerobic endurance zone and the remaining twenty percent in the uncomfortable and sometimes painful anaerobic zone.
- Coach Mike
