saturday 2/25/12

Hi, We are meeting at the montessori School on Fairview Ave tomorrow at 6:30am. See you all there!

Saturday 2/18/12

Hi, Practice tomorrow at Dos Pueblos HS 6:30am. April Marathoners (after warmup) will start at the top of Glenn Annie and run down the hill to Cathedral Oaks, take a right and run to the former start of that out and back 4miler (in front of the School), turn around, go back up to the top and finish the last two miles down the hill (6miles total) (down, up, down).
Non-Marathoners will do down then up for 4miles at threshold effort...85-90% effort.

Folks we have running grass will run behind the school on the fields and possibly golf course. (after warmup, 30min at 85% effort continuous, cooldown)

See you tomorrow

Saturday 2/10/12

Hi, both Mike and Rusty are away racing the cross-country national championships in St.Louis this weekend and won't be at practice.
Jim Sloan and Jill Zachary have kindly and volunteered to lead practice in our absence.
We will be meeting at the Montessori School across from the Goleta Library on Fairview at 6:30am.
For those training for the Boston marathon or another April marathon you will run 5 miles at marathon pace after your warmup
For those training for the Carlsbad 5k or any other race other than a marathon or ultra, after your warmup you will run 2x2.5 mile loop (*#1@80% effort, 5 min jog, #2@90% effort)
*80% effort is ~marathon race race or slightly slower or "easier" than tempo pace. 90% effort is ~10-20 seconds faster per mile than 80% effort.
Those training for the LA Marathon after your warmup, do 4 x the loop ~10 miles at goal marathon pace

Warmup is 40 minutes easy for everyone
Those we write schedules for should complete assigned miles for the day after the workout.


Jim and Jill will explain the loop (2.5 miles) to everyone and break everyone into pace groups.

See you all Tuesday!

Saturday 2/4/12

Hi, Practice is at Zizzo's Coffee Shop at 370 Storke Road (parking in the lot adjacent Zizzo'z), Goleta. See you at 6:30am!

Elliptigo at SBRunning Co Saturday 1/28/12

Hi all, great opportunity to try an Elliptigo this Saturday at practice. Meeting Saturday at SBRunning Co/Hazards downtown Santa Barbara on lower Anacapa St 6:30am as usual.
As some of you know, I have an Elliptigo and use is as a supplement to my training and have found it to be the best cross training for runners bar none. For anyone who has hip instability or rotational injuries the elliptigo is perfect for you as well. It's an amazing machine that can climb to the top of Gibraltar and fly back down.

Here is a link to check then out...http://www.elliptigo.com/

Feel free to bring anyone to practice you think might be interested in trying an elliptigo.

See you Saturday.

Saturday 1/21/12

Hi, We are meeting at the Vieja Valley School, 434 Nogal Drive, Santa Barbara 93110 6:30am.
See you there rain or shine!

Saturday 1/14/12

We will be meeting at 6:30 a.m. at the Goleta SB Running company for a workout at Lake Los Carneros. Hope to see you all there