And into the fire. It was with great relief that we noticed our Mondays are no longer hill repeats, no penbies, no penpions, no scorpions, those cute monikered nasties now behind us. What did follow our 20 miles on Sunday was 6 X 4K at goal marathon pace (3:00 recovery). Caramba! Hard as the dickens out in the wind, I could only muster the first 5, Linda rocked #6 spot on. 15 Miles easy today, and then another 40 X 1/4 tomorrow. Linda went over 1000 miles for the year yesterday, I hit it 7 miles in today.
All signs point to a sub 3:15 for both of us. And at our age, Hubris!
I’ve been going on about Killer Coach and his training program. I can hardly give enough credit. You can’t argue with David Adams results. And Matt Pohren ran a 9:17 Steeple this weekend to win down at NW Missouri State, a 2 second personal best. I’m anxious to see what Luka and Andrew Jacob do with their training. Andrew rocked 6 X 1000 all < 2:58.5 last night. He, Luka, and Matt have been joining David for the weekly track sessions.
Their accomplishments alone are quite the confidence builder in our own training, Giddyup!
Some other good results from last weekend: Amanda Lee ran the 2K Steeple at NWMS in 6:55 and followed that up with a win in the 5K in 17:56. Megan Zavorka ran the 3K Steeple in 11:21 for 3rd and followed with 18:24 in the 5K for 2nd behind her new teammate.
And some great workouts continuing as we prep for Lincoln. Meghan Schneider put in 78 miles last week, she is having the best training cycle I can remember. Aaron Carrizales ran 2 X 4 miles in 22:50, 22:48. Cameron Cummings has had 5 (!) 30+ mile runs. Cameron is the defending Lincoln Marathon champ, it should be a real battle for the top 3 spots as Lincoln Running Company’s Tom Nichols has been having an outstanding training cycle too.
My apologies to those I failed to mention as making volunteer contributions to Saturday’s Ni-Bthaska-Ke Trail Run. Of course Ivan Marsh and Jody Green do yeoman’s work, I can’t imagine the race going off without them. Mike Reilly and Dylan Wilson acted as course sweepers in search of a missing runner (found out later she dropped out and went home), and Amy Cherko de Mainelli assisting as Jody’s girl Friday.
No two races are ever the same and port a cans featured twists this time. A young lady dropped her car keys into the oval abyss on Saturday morning. Linda fetched her a coat hanger, and all’s well that ends well. I’ve never seen that happen before and can’t imagine how distraught the poor miss must have been. I then received a call yesterday from Eagle Services, the company we rented the cans from. They were at PRSP picking up the rentals and were wondering where the can went that was located at the 2 mile mark! I’ve never heard of a port a can disappearing, I’m assuming they must have found it elsewhere as I didn’t hear back later.
The Tough Little Mudders Kids Run is the latest addition to our expanding Children’s Running Program.
Ivan Marsh has won his home course race 4 out of the 6 years it has been contested. A Nebraska Legend and all around Great Guy.
A great perspective on how steep the hill was to start the race. Just to get the runners ready for the Real Hills out on the course.
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