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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 4:19 AM Subject: Incline Club V3 TH #1 LR #20 Thursday, April 8th 5:30 p.m. meet by the Incline The Incline!!! The first Thursday run of the season. Mass start to establish handicaps. I am sure there will be lots of ?s about the Thursday runs. I have updated the Incline Club FAQ http://www.skyrunner.com/incline_faq.htm to reflect what we will be doing this year. It is different from last year in that we will be repeating the cycle every 4 weeks. The main reason for this is so that we alternate tempo runs with non-tempo runs. I feel this will be better and more balanced training than having two tempo runs in a row like last year when we cycled only the three workouts. At any rate feel free to ask questions AFTER you read the FAQ. **** Sunday, April 11th 8 a.m. meet by the Fountain on Spring Street. Spring Street is 1/4 mile down the road from the COG depot. THIS IS OUR PRACTICE PARK!!!! NO PARKING IN COG SPOTS!!! If it gets too crowded by Spring Street park in the Barr Trail trail-head spots and run down to Spring Street as your warm-up (down?). Run up to Barr Camp and then over to the Severy Creek Trail intersection on Elk Park Trail and back then head back down. 3:00 to 4:00 depending on speed. **** Please look over the workout board to see if I got you listed for last Sunday. Some went early because of Easter, some came late because of the switch to daylight savings time. **** Speaking of workout board: It is THE workout board this year unlike last year when we had a Thursday board and a Sunday board. One board should make things a lot easier. It got rather ugly last year trying to keep things straight on the two boards. Not to worry — we will still have an Incline board with times for Incline runs posted. **** Teresa T writes: I have been going to sit down all week and fill you in on my adventure last Sunday — and here it is Friday! All went well on the run to the turn around point at the Severy cairn. It was cold and I was glad to get back into the sunshine on Barr trail. I decided that because my legs were a bit tired from the snow that it would be smart to run down a little slower and more careful than I normally do. Just after the few rocky turns below Barr Camp, on a nice flat, rockless area, I caught my toe on something and went straight down, do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not have time to think! I hit square on my left knee and knew it was a bad blow. I could see bone in the hole in it, and quit looking at that point! Needless to say, it was a long trip down. Once it was no longer numb, I decided to walk down, then it let me run stiff legged a bit, and after 1.5 hours, I arrived in the parking lot, white sock red, leg covered with blood, other leg well spattered, tired, and very glad to be down! Ask Rick H and Neal the score for bloodiness and swollen funkiness! There were a lot of people hiking up who were concerned and a couple of girls could not hide their disgust! I thought they were going to get sick! The good news is it’s not broken, only severely bruised, and they put 3 stitches in it. The bad part was the scrubbing out and numbing up! The best words to hear were no breaks! So, I’ll be back as soon as possible! I hate to miss the runs — even though I might not be the fastest one out there, I feel very strong and ahead of schedule on my training. Warn everyone to watch out for those little gnomes that live on the trail and pull on your toes when you least expect it! (Note: Only because she said to ask I checked with Rick H. He reports that when they cleaned it they shot water in one hole and it came out another!!! However to show just how sick she is Teresa was back at it the following Sunday!!!) **** www post: 4/4/99 A lot of new snow, the switch to Daylight Savings Time and Easter Sunday all combined to keep the group under 30 for the first time in 8 weeks when 22 people and 2 dogs did the Waldo loop. Only a few dared venture up Longs Ranch Road into the deep stuff. All and all however it was a great run and the snow made it kind of fun. Club records: # of dogs on a run: 7 # 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: 39 # of members in a race — Pikes Peak A & M: 44 # on e-mailing list: 117 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 www.skyrunner.com
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