Class 2

This was the first time for testing yourself here. You’ll get a two-mile or four-mile speed test at mid-term and 5K or 10K at the end.

Tuesday’s runs will step up by about a quarter-mile a week for the 5K group, and a half-mile weekly for the 10K. This will take your run to either 2.25 or 4.5 next week.

My half-marathon training team begins building up for the EWEB Run to Stay Warm race this Sunday with a six-mile run. If interested in joining us, we meet at the Eugene Running Company in Oakway Center for an eight o’clock start.

TODAY’S ONE-MILE TEST

(with comparison to your run on Tuesday at twice today's distance; target was anything faster)

Bryce – 8:16 (-1:43)

Alex – 8:01 (-22 sec.)

Connor – 7:51 (-1:49) day’s 2^nd most improved, tie

Elliot – 8:16 (-1:24)

Rachel – 8:31 (-1:35)

Jake – 5:59 (-57 sec.)

Becky – 9:51 (+11 sec.)

James – 12:04 (no target)

Jonathan – 7:55 (-1:49) day’s 2^nd most improved, tie

Eleanor – 9:01 (-53 sec.)

Sota – 6:06 (-2:00) day’s most improved, earning extra credit

TODAY’S TWO-MILE TEST

(with per-mile pace and comparison to your Tuesday run at about twice today's distance; target was anything faster)

Sam – 14:48 (7:24 pace, -1:45 per mile)

Ella – 14:44 (7:22s, -1:47)

David – 15:16 (7:22s, -37 sec.)

Lana – about 1.8 miles in 15:10 (8:25s, =)

Mariana – about 1.8 miles in 19:46 (10:59s, +13 sec.)

Nathan – 13:26 (6:43s, -1:22)

LESSON 2: WINNING WAYS

A great beauty of running is that it gives everyone a chance to win. Winning isn’t automatic; you still have to work for success and risk failure. But unlike other sports there’s no need to beat an arbitrary standard (such as “par” or an opponent’s score). You measure yourself against your personal records. To the runner, a “PR” does not stand for public relations or an island in the Caribbean. It means “personal record,” and this PR may represent the greatest advance in the history of this sport. The invention of the digital stopwatch worn on the wrist turned everyone into a potential winner. Here was a personal and yet objective way to measure success and progress. It didn’t depend upon beating anyone, but only upon how the new numbers on the watch compared with the old ones.