Wednesday, October 15, 2014

October 19th Preview

We're back at it at the Eugene Running Company this Sunday, with eight miles at eight o'clock. The store opens about 15 minutes earlier.

Our route (which skirts traffic from Run with the Duck 5K): Oakway and Coburg Roads to Ferry Street Bridge. Turn right onto bike path, to Valley River footbridge and across. Turn left, to Ferry Street and turn AROUND. Back the same way: Valley River, Ferry and store. GPS distance is 8.00 miles.

Bring a drink for delivery at turnaround. Weather forecast: starting temperature in 50s and mostly sunny.

WEEK 4 LESSON: YOUR EXTRAS

Question: If I have raced this distance before, can or should I do more training than this program lists?

Answer: More isn’t necessarily better. For these months, please buy into this program of long runs as written. It has a proven record of success. Stick to the scheduled distances on Sundays, neither shorter nor longer, and take as many of these runs as possible with the group. The average increase of one mile week already pushes the safe limit of 10 percent, and one of the goals here is to keep you healthy throughout the program. Adding extra miles could put you at risk of injury, and a goal is to get you safely to the starting line.

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