September 25th note

Most of our summer team is starting the fall at the new Florence Half-Marathon this Sunday. I’ll go there too, so (in football terms) this is a “bye week” for EWEB training.

Recommendations: either take a run on your own or join the Eugene Running Company’s Sunday group that leaves the store at nine o’clock. Go about five miles. We’ll resume our schedule at six miles the following Sunday.

WEEK 2 LESSON: YOUR DISTANCE

Question: Why do we only meet as a group once a week, for the long run? 

Answer: The weekly long run is by far the most critical. You could run almost nothing else during the week and still do fine in the half-marathon. Or you could run almost daily, skip too many long runs and not do fine. Make sure you take the long ones, and recover well in between. We increase the distance by one mile a week from five to 11 miles before easing down to six miles the final Sunday of training. Don’t jump ahead of yourself by thinking too soon, “Can I run 13 miles?” You’ll get there when you get there. For now, think only of training for six miles, then seven, then...