Summer Speed relay workout Tuesday 6/3 at 6 PM at Stewart Park

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Note that after this week’s workout, we’re taking two weeks off from workouts, first for the Twilight 5K on Tuesday, June 10, and then for the Sunset Circuits track meet on Tuesday, June 17. I encourage everyone to enter those events!

On to the workout. Remember, we meet at the bocce pits near the big pavilion starting at 6 PM, with warmups starting at 6:15 PM. It’s going to be hot and sunny, so make sure to bring water.

We’ll be doing a Ridiculous Relay this week! For those who haven’t had the pleasure before, here’s how it works. After our warmup, everyone lines up in order of speed so I can match up the fastest and slowest runner, the next-fastest and next-slowest, and so on, and then assemble pairs of people into four-person teams.

Then, one set of people from each team will start. Here’s the twist. Within each set, the runners run in opposite directions around the roughly 400m grass loop until they meet, exchange a baton, and then turn around and run back the way they came to the start. That way, the faster runners run farther, and the slower runners run shorter, but everyone runs for about the same amount of time. The pace should be quick—roughly mile race pace but not all out. Pace yourself because it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and run too fast early on.

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Once the first set of runners both make it back to the start, they hand off the baton to their team’s second set of runners, and the first set gets to rest and cheer for everyone else. While all this is happening, the other teams’ runners are doing the same thing. Laps are run! Leads change! Batons are dropped! Chaos ensues! The winning team will get all their runners back first after all sets of runners have completed 8 reps.

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