Good day, runners! If you’re interested in running the MITHACAL MILERS mile time trial this coming Tuesday at 7:15 PM at Barton Hall, please sign up soon in Webscorer. The time trial is free, but as with the workouts, you must be an FLRC member. DO NOT ARRIVE EARLY! We got in trouble with the Cornell Track team for interfering with their practice this week.
I would really appreciate it if you didn’t leave this until Tuesday evening because I need time to print the name tag stickers we’ll use for timing and assign them to specific runners. If you have a child running the time trial too, make sure to register them separately.
To be clear, for anyone who might find this stressful, THIS IS NOT A RACE, even against yourself. It’s a diagnostic effort designed to help you (and me) determine what pace you should run in training.
We’ll run at least three heats, seeded by time (slow to fast, as in our meets). The registration will ask for a predicted mile time—just guess what you think you can run so I can put you in an appropriate heat. Note that the predicted time has pop-up menus for hours (HH), minutes (MM), and seconds (SS). Please don’t use the hours menu—no one should take that long.
Everyone will receive a name tag sticker with a number and QR code on it. After you finish, we’ll ask you to line up in order of finish so we can scan the code on your number to match up with the recorded times.
I’ll need a couple of people to help, but with all the heats, it shouldn’t be a problem to recruit some volunteers who have already run or have yet to run.
See you Tuesday!