RSVP by Monday for Summer Speed workout and potluck Tuesday 8/6 at 6:30 PM at Stewart Park

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And now for something completely different! By popular demand from the regular Tuesday night workout crowd, we’re organizing a potluck dinner after the workout next week.

We’ll meet at 6:15 PM, warm up at 6:30 PM, and run until about 7:30 or so, after which we’ll move into picnic mode and enjoy burgers, hot dogs, and portobello mushrooms from the grill, provided by the club, along with various dish-to-pass contributions from runners. Please RSVP here with your planned dish-to-pass. It’s fine to bring a guest (though we may recruit them for the relay).

“What relay?” you ask. I’ve come up with another paired relay workout I’m calling a Split Distance Relay. We’ll all line up in order of pace, and I’ll make teams by pairing the fastest and the slowest person, second-fastest and second-slowest, and so on. The faster half of the group will start first and run our traditional 800m loop counterclockwise around both fields at Stewart Park. When each runner finishes, they’ll hand off to their partner, who will run a 600m variant of the loop, also counterclockwise, cutting back across the field from the main Stewart Park entrance (that’s the diagonal line in the map below). Theoretically, this should work out to a rough average of 3-minute reps with 3-minute recoveries because the faster runners will run longer, and the slower runners will run shorter.

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It’s likely that when we get into the middle of the pack, there won’t be that much difference in speed between the two runners, so they can swap short and long distances as long as there’s always someone running longer and someone running shorter.

As always, we meet at the Stewart Park bocce pits near the big pavilion. All are welcome, but you must be an FLRC member and sign the FLRC Training Programs waiver once for 2024.

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Just a reminder to get your RSVPs in here. We’ve reserved the Small Pavilion at Stewart Park so we don’t have to worry about it raining on our parade—it’s impossible to predict this year.

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Well, that was a huge success! Thanks to the 37 people who came and brought a cornucopia of fabulous food. I was sad that there was too much for me to sample everything.

Special thanks to Lauren Milano, who shopped for the event and ably managed setting everything out on the central tables, and to Dave Kania, who manned the grill for the hot dogs, hamburgers, and portobello mushrooms.

Reserving the Small Pavilion at Stewart Park was absolutely the right decision even though it didn’t end up raining on us because the light and picnic tables were welcome.

This may become an annual tradition for the Tuesday night Summer Speed workouts—it was a ton of fun to get more of a chance to hang out with everyone after the workout.

Speaking of which, the Split Distance Relay was also a big win, with everyone doing roughly 6 by 3-minutes on/off in a format that kept the group together and ensured lots of mixing of pace groups.

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