We had 30+ people for last week’s MITHACAL MILERS workout, and it was great fun getting people back on the track at Barton Hall. You can park in many spots on campus, but the parking garage is often the most convenient. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early so you’ll have time to change—it turns out you don’t have to sign in at the desk this year. Parents can bring kids aged 7–11, and Kate McCormick will be leading them in running games until 8 PM—more info.
You must be an FLRC member to run in Barton Hall over the winter, including at these workouts — join or renew today if necessary. Everyone must also sign an online waiver once for 2022. It’s the same as for the FLRC group runs, so if you’ve signed that one this year, there is no need to do so again—check Webscorer to see if you already signed.)
For our second pre-time trial workout, I’m going to keep things simple again. We’ll kick things off at 7 PM with Jay Johnson’s Lunge Matrix and Leg Swings (see below for YouTube links).
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Track Workout: Cross-country runner legs should have recovered from the championship race by now, so this workout will be a little harder. We’ll run 8 by 400m (two laps) with the first lap at a comfortable hard pace and the second lap being at what feels like mile race pace. Recovery should be 400m (two laps) of easy jogging at a conversational pace. The goal here is to start adding some stress for the legs to adapt to without going all out for two full laps. The last 400m can be part of a 10-minute cooldown jog—you don’t want to stop abruptly after speedwork.
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Injury Recovery Session: Once the runners have started, everyone who’s joining me for injury recovery will gather off to the side somewhere to discuss what we’re dealing with and start in on some easy exercises.
Once the runners are done, we’ll reconvene to do Jay Johnson’s Strength and Mobility routine to close things down. Bring a yoga mat or towel for these—the track surface is hard on bare skin.
We’ll be running a mile time trial next week (11/22) so everyone can get a race time from which to determine paces using the Jack Daniels pace calculator.
Any questions?
Resources
- Warmup: Jay Johnson’s Leg Swings and Lunge Matrix , then 10 minutes of jogging
- Cooldown: At least 10 minutes of jogging, then Jay Johnson’s Strength and Mobility
- Pace Calculator: Jack Daniels’ VDOT Running Calculator