Preblast: Devil’s Turn – Track Week

Preblast: Devil’s Turn – Track Week

For those that track this sort of thing, we have done hills and spent some time on the boardwalk the last two weeks.  What does that mean?  Yep, it’s track week at Devil’s Turn.

We will leave the Greenway parking lot at the corner of Rea Rd. and Bevington Place at 5:15 am.

Here are your options:

1) Warm up a mile, then hold marathon pace the rest of the way to the SCMS track around the track as desired and then leave track in enough time to cover the 2.2 miles back reaching the parking lot at 6:10 am.

2) Warm up a mile, then increase to marathon pace out to the track.  Once on the track, alternate one lap at threshold pace and one lap at marathon pace until it is time to leave the track to get back to parking lot at 6:10 am.  On the way back, run at marathon pace the 2.2 miles back or add a cool down pace toward the end if desired.

Consult the Pace Calculator at http://runsmartproject.com/calculator (instructions for the calculator at http://runsmartproject.com/calculator/instructions/) for your marathon and threshold pace values.

Safety Message:  It will be dark and we will be running on public roads and on a dark track.  Wear headlamps, blinky lights, and sparkly night glow paraphernalia to avoid tripping, falling, or becoming road kill.  It will also be (very) cold so watch out for ice and slippery conditions.  That concludes this safety message.