SF Bay Area – Coaches Needed
Greater Golden Gate Members
Do you want to train the next generation of athletes? The next Magdelana? Two middles school teams in the SF Bay Area could use help coaching their teams.
Piedmont Middle School (Piedmont, CA): www.pmscc.com
Practices are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Monday’s practice will start at 2:15 p.m. until 3:45 p.m.|| Tuesdays we will practice from 3:20 to 4:50 p.m. || Thursdays we will practice from 3:20 to 4:50 p.m. Contact Len Goldman at lgoldman@pacbell.net if interested.
Willard Middle School in Berkeley Seeking Cross Country Coach:
Tahoe Relay – June 12
Teams now forming for the Lake Tahoe Relay
http://www.laketahoerelay.com/
7 People, 72 miles.
The CG has done this once in the last two years placing 3rd in the corporate division after a last minute pass by the another team in the final leg.
WE NEED TEAM CAPTAINS! Volunteer to organize a team and get a free USCG Running Club tech shirt.
If interested in captaining a CG team contact admin@runuscg.org for more information as we have planning materials from previous years, including MWR funding requests, leg tracking planners, motorpool access and more – we’ll make it easy for you! For starters use the forum to give updates to the team sparing mass emails and raising visibility of the planning and fun to the whole club! This is one of the most fun events because it is relatively small team, it’s on a saturday, and you can get a cabin real cheap in Tahoe to celebrate the days race before heading back on Sunday. This is a truly great race, at a great price, and for a good cause – all right in our back yard!
East Bay Track Workout on Feb 10th
Hoping for sunny weather this week, we’ll return to Piedmont for a combination of hills and track work. The more the merrier…. shooting for a 4:45 tee off @Piedmont Track
1.5 mile warm up
10X hill repeats (43 sec average)
3X800m with a 400m rest (2:25 Pat/2:35 rest of us)
1.0 mile warm down
“The Relay” Teams Forming
1 Weekend, 200 miles, 12 people
“The Relay” Teams are forming now. Contact admin@runuscg.org for more details.
Sailors with a Running Problem returns this year to improve upon it’s 9th overall and 2nd Law Enforcement divsion place from 2009. In addition to 12 runners teams typically have 2 drivers and require 2 volunteers to fill 5 hour shifts on race weekend. Use the Forum to find teammates and get organized – it’s lonely.
More information on “the relay” can be found at www.therelay.org A special web page is in the works to keep our running club teams informed about important dates, training tips, fundraising, and logistics.
Bay Area group runs (free)
We will utlize our sister club, Lake Merritt Joggers and Striders, weekly saturday training runs as part of our preparatory program. This was a successfull practice carried over from last year where members of the team could get together and go on varied runs, ranging in length, organized by LMJS with multiple different pace groups to meet everyones needs. More information can be found at http://www.lmjs.org/LMJS_training_runs_schedule
Wednesday 20 Jan 2010 – Track Workout
What: Speed work
Where: Witter Field (Piedmont Track)
When: Wednesday 20 Jan 2010; Start 1700 with warmup
What: 2×200, 2×400, 1×800, 1×1000, 1×800, 2×400, 2×200, 1×100
Planned by: Pat
For long distance training, a longer warm up and cool down may be introduced as well as hill repeats between the softball field and Rec Dept (it’s burly and lighted).
Weather: it could (most likely will) rain – so what, we’re running.
USCGRC Excels at Berkeley Track Meet
On Saturday 16 January 2010 the NorCal Chapter of the USCG Running Club fielded one competitor at the Cal All Comers Track Meet held in Berkeley, CA (PAUSATF). Patrick Fernandez toed the line against collegiate and open field competitors for the 1500m race. Patrick ran a calculated race, coming through the 800m mark in 2:10 and finishing in a highly respectable 4:15. Patrick has been doing double speed workouts, Mondays and Wednesdays, at the Piedmont track and one spectator from the crowd commented that, “Pat’s just starting to get fast – he’s intense and looking to get much faster”. We can only hope that’s true as Pat is now the lead scorer for the Coast Guard in PAUSATF Track and Field.
Join Pat, and others, for workouts – check back often for updates
Holiday Mile – Tue 22 DEC 09
Come celebrate the holidays with a HOLIDAY MILE! USCGRC Bay Area Chapter is hosting the first Holiday Mile. Competitors will toe the line at 1730 PST on the track in Piedmont for a one mile race.
Date: Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Open to: Anyone!
Location: Witter Field, Piedmont, CA
Start of mile: 1730 (5:30PM)
“I’m going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.” – Johnny Gray
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“The great thing about athletics is that it’s like poker, sometimes you know what’s in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you’ve got to keep up the front.” – Sebastian Coe
Lake Chabot – Sat 19 DEC 09
Bay Area Chapter plans to head out for a run this Saturday. Run at your own pace, bring a partner if you want to make sure you have someone to run with. 0730, meet at the Map of the lake near the Marina Parking area. Plan is to run around the lake, with options for additional loops like Cameron and 10 Hills trail. Probably somewhere from 8-12 miles total. POC: ken@runuscg.org -> email if you plan to be there so we wait for you.
