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Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 3:06 PM Subject: Incline V2 TH #28 Tomorrow Thursday the 15th is the last club workout of the season. We will squeeze in one more Incline at 5:30pm. Hope to see you there!!! As always those that use Internet Explorer can check out your handicap at http://www.skyrunner.com/story/handicap.htm I want to thank Rick H for sending me the lists of people who showed for the workouts while I was in Tibet. The leader boards are all caught up now:-) *********** Congratulations go to Incline Club member Kelly M who qualified for the US men’s Olympic Trials by running a 2:19:20 at St. George. He put in a hell of a year for this goal and he got it!!! If you see him congratulate him!!! *********** This next phase of our cycle is one of the most important parts of a well balanced training program — the rest and rejuvenation phase. It is human athletic nature that always wants to do more as in: I did not do so well on such and such running — if I do more I will do better. OR I did great on such and such running — if I do more I will do even better. However it has been a long season and it is time to take a short break. I will send out an e-mail sometime in November when we will start the whole process over again by building our base with the sicko long runs on the Ute loop and Barr Trail. If you have been going all year try to resist the urge to push through to the next season. If you are like most you will burnout come May. Those who still have major goals for the season of course keep at it and good luck!!! For the rest of us, rest time does NOT mean down time. Try to do some easy running, biking or hiking. However if you have been dealing with a nag, or worse an injury, do WHATEVER it takes to get rid of it NOW even if it means your hardest exercise is lifting the remote for the TV!!!!! An important part of the rest time is setting goals for next year. Don’t forget you need short-term goals as well as the long-term goals. Often I set short-term goals like: No days missed for a month or X amount of time as a minimum per day. The mid-range goals are often some race like Mt Washington or Aspen and the long-term goal is often Pikes Peak or an overseas race. Make up your own but get them written down. If you have ?s or want some help or focus please let me know. If possible I would rather deal with you in person because I want to take a break from all of the e-mail/www stuff for a bit too:-) Don’t hesitate to call me at 685-5654. We can hook up for a little run or whatever. Go out hard, when it hurts too much take October off:-) Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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