Congrats to all those who raced the Backshore and the Twin Lights Half this weekend.
We will be doing a mid-week track workout at 5:30am Wednesday (intervals will be starting at 5:30, so come earlier if you want to warm up at the track), and don’t forget about Mt. Washington Prep Day this Saturday.
Ravenswood Pursuits will start at 6:30 tomorrow, not 7:00 as originally posted.
Saturday morning’s workout – 2 minutes rest in-between 6x800m’s (Layce, Jenn, Kevin), 6 x880yds (Bob, Zach, Steve, Tony) and 400′s (Matt) – was very cold and very, very windy. We’re going to call it Mt. Washington acclimatization. Not a fun workout for sure, but excellent race prep. We hope. Otherwise it was just pointless misery.
Sunday’s long run featured a new trail and a Team Gloucester mutiny, with Dave, Layce, and Ernesto refusing to run down the 20% decline that Steve deemed a trail. We found them again about an hour and twenty minutes later. I think the last mutiny was when we got lost in Manchester Essex woods, and after seeing Matt holding up a stick towards the sun and gauge the shadow, Phil decided he was done with our navigational abilities and run home via the dreaded blacktop. Epic. Anyways, coming back to today’s revolt, the funny thing is that once you hurtled down the hill, the rest of the trail was pretty nice. Thanks mountain bikers! And you see cool stuff when you try new things.
Sophie heading up the hill that caused all the hubbub-
A certain someone has requested that the track workout be held at 6am instead of 7am this coming Saturday, and certain key TG members agreed…which led the rest of those present to give in, albeit with an air of despair.
What’s that? It doesn’t seem quite right that because Ms. Alves is feeling a little behind after her 10 days of luxury and leisure in the Southern Hemisphere, the rest of us have to suffer?
Noted. It’s a one-time occurrence, Alves.
Kudos to Katie Taormina, finishing 88th woman in 3:14 despite brutally hot conditions. Top 100! Pretty Awesome, Katie.
Some cool press from The Beacon: