2 Weeks Left and Fast Women Have the Best Times

We are nearing the end of the TRY year. We only have 2 weeks left. Wow, this year has gone by fast! We hope to see everyone for the last couple of times for the year :)

This week I recommend doing a 4 mile tempo. That would be a 1 mile warmup, 2 mile at a faster pace, and a 1 mile cool down.

Next week is Lights on the Lake for the final TRY run. Check back next week for details!

[Terry felt like spicing this one up a little...read on]

Next weeks detailed plans:

MONDAY night - a walk under Lights on the Lake. Meeting at the normal Wegman's playground end of the park at 6. Walking from 6 - 7:30ish. Then going to Bankgkok Thai Restaurant for dinner starting at 8. Since I'm hoping for a decent turn out for dinner (It'll be Ivy's first time!) please let me know if you plan to join in as I may warn them and make a pseudo reservation. The point is to walk under the lights but if you can only join in for dinner - or can't make it at 6 and want to run us down under the lights, I'm flexible.

TUESDAY night - a group five mile jog under the lights on the lake. Meeting at normal TRY time at 5 next to the bike rental building and then jogging til 6:15ish? (Lots of people to dodge along the way.)

Note that it is free but they do recommend a $2 donation. If you are like me and haven't donated to the park in a while, this is a great time to give extra money to the park that gives so much back with all the exercising it allows us to do!

I was rather shocked this weekend to stumble across and interesting and insightful article on female marathon running on Grantland.com (which is an offshoot of ESPN.com). Here is the grand finale:

"...women running fair and square in a race from which their own mothers were expressly banned. Less than half a century ago, coverage of the sport in major magazines included descriptions of "fragrant hair" — imagine how they'd react to this new kickass generation of fast and feisty ladies."

It goes into some of the history of women's distance running, Syracuse University gets mentioned, there is a fun sidebar on why the former world record has been disallowed and also on the side there is a link to an article from Running Times that goes into the difference in gender based time standards.

Since we've had a glut of marathon finishers in TRY this fall (and all but one have been women), I thought it was a very timely analysis of the Boston Marathon qualifying time schemes. The articles are probably more interesting to women then men, but we all can get something out of them.