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Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 2:07 PM Subject: Incline Club V3 LR #15 It is March already — time to run a bit longer for our long runs. This is about as long as we will take them for the season other than a few special runs (perhaps a sixpeat on the Incline:-) **** I have been getting lots of questions about the long runs. Seems many are concerned that 1) they have to walk sections of them and that 2) it takes a very long time to do these loops. 1) Almost everyone walks the top miles of Pikes Peak so it is perfect training for it — get used to it!!! What good is cutting the long run loops short so you don’t have to walk just to end up walking in the race? There is a certain pace where it is actually better to walk than to try to run. That pace varies from person to person and the best time to find it is during training! 2) These are long runs — they are supposed to take a while;-) Consider that the faster runners will now be out there almost an hour more than their Ascent time. While again I don’t recommend 5 hour Ascent people do weekly 6 hour outings they still should spend some time on their feet. At this point I would think 4 hours would be a good cut-off. At that time frame there has to be some walking which will not break you down but will allow you to put enough time on your feet to get your body used to long sustained efforts. Taking 1&2 together I recommend slowing down and going the distance over speeding up and cutting the courses *too* short. Go fast on Tuesdays and Thursdays!!! It is fine to cut some of the loops to keep under the 4 hour range but try not to cut the courses to the point that people who are faster than you are running an hour longer than you! You will NOT get that privilege come race day and you are not magically going to run twice as long without training for it. Of course there are those that want nothing to do with the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon. You should do whatever it is you feel is in your best interest. For example if you are just doing long runs for a 10K program there in no need to be spending hours on your feet — lucky you;-) **** This Sunday, March 7 at 8 a.m. meet by the Incline. Head out the Ute Indian Trail and then do the Waldo loop. Then continue UP Longs Ranch Road until you meet up with the Barr Trail at No Name Ice Creek. Then head UP the Barr Trail for about 100 meters and turn left and head out to the water pipe bridge. Do not cross the bridge but head UP the road until it turns into a narrow trail. This will connect back into the Barr Trail. Run down the Barr Trail back to the parking area. 3 to 4 hours depending on speed. **** www post: 2/28/99 31 people (3rd week in a row) and 5 K9s headed up towards Barr Camp. There were very few bad sections of trail on the way to Barr Camp. Some then ran over to the big clearing on Elk Park Trail. The snow was a bit worse here but even then it was just a few patchy sections for the most part. The weather was so nice we sat around for a long time after the run and talked it up. Club records: # of dogs on a run: 6 # of people to show for breakfast: 15 # of people on the Incline: 23 # of long runs in a row — Glen Ash: 24 # of people on a Thursday: 27 # of people at a party: 30 # of people on a Sunday: 35 # of members in a race — Pikes Peak A & M: 44 # on e-mailing list: 113 Incline Club Page: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline.htm Incline Club FAQ: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline_faq.htm Incline Club Mosaic Game: http://www.skyrunner.com/game/mosaic_intro.htm This e-mail: http://www.skyrunner.com/incline_mail.htm **** Go out hard, when it hurts speed up... Matt Carpenter http://www.skyrunner.com
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