Upcoming CLUB SUPPORTED PA-USATF Grand Prix Race…
03/18 Emerald Across the Bay 12K, San Francisco
Redding NorCal John Frank 10 Miler
A small but dedicated contingent of Chips found the starting line of this wonderful event this past Saturday. Under sunny skies and temperatures warming to the singlet level, about 265 runners headed out on this rolling and scenic course along the upper Sacramento River.
The winning times were slow this year with some overall weakness in the front of both the men’s (53 + minutes) and women’s (61+ minutes) fields. Top Chip was Carol Parise at just over 70 minutes followed in the 80 minute range by Chris Iwahashi and Cary Craig. Winning her division was Nova Poff and Linda Hall picked up a 2nd place division medal. Larry White, Joel Contreras, and Jimmy Yee represented the adult men and Nathan Paddeck cruised the 10 miles just behind Carol after a hard workout on Thursday for the youth division.
Chico Bidwell Classic Half-Marathon…
Also Saturday: Gary Lotspeich took this one as a returning fitness half-marathon challenge and came home with a nice 1:38 territory finish and second place in his age division.
Napa Marathon, Sunday 4 March
Second overall in the women’s field was Mary Coordt; Mary was there doing a nutrition seminar for the event and decided to get her day’s run in with company. At 2:55 she was only 3 minutes back of the overall women’s win and gaining all the time after a fun run over the first 20 miles or so. Lloyd Levine notched a new PR in 3:08, and ex-Chip Herb Tanzer returned to the area from his base now in Colorado to turn a nice 3:11 in the 55-59 division. Second generation Chipette Michelle LaSala, now in NYC cruised a solid 3:24 Boston ticket. Rena Schumann, coming back from injury finished in 3:42.
Thursday Shorter Fast Turnover Sessions Starting on 15 March !
Almost all of us need to work on getting our feet off the ground faster. Faster turnover produces faster overall forward motion, and our Tuesday night sessions are only ONE element toward that goal.
In order to really focus on “fast turnover,” we must actually run fast…but the “Tuesday” program is designed for more like “strength and form speed” as opposed to truly “fast pushoff” speed.
In order to focus more on the fast pushoff speed, we must not tax our overall endurance or form, but concentrate on that fast forward velocity only for a SHORT TIME/Distance. Hence the THURSDAY EVENING SESSIONS on Kadema will present speed segments that never exceed 300 meters. Most of the effort segments will be 100 or 200 meter assignments where each of you can focus highly on getting from A to B as fast as possible. After each of these segments, you will be given fully adequate “recovery time” so that the next speed segment again allows you to go…really fast. These sessions are GUARANTEED to improve your speed elements on Tuesday night workouts and to provide another leg in the speed development many of you are seeking in order to improve all racing times from the 5k to the marathon.
See you at University Park staging area at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday 15 March !
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