Wednesday Practice & More

Back to the Track
Meet at Tinley Park High School - 175th Street. Two blocks east of Ridgeland. Be warmed up and ready to start by 6:45. You can warm up on the track or surrounding streets.

Half marathoners - be sure to taper this week - cut your mileage by about 25% but maintain your intensity. Do some miles at your race goal pace.

Good quote as we enter racing season -
There are people in your race you are faster than. Beat them.

There are people out there who are probably equal to you. Beat all of them because you ran a smart race.

There will also be people who are better than you. Beat half of them because they run stupidly

TT&T has a long tradition of running smart races and beating people that go out too fast - figure out a good race plan based on a realistic evaluation of your fitness, be flexible to the conditions then implement! If you do this right you will be passing people in the last few miles of the race and we should never get passed!

Saturday Practice

Meet at 40 Acre Woods on 119th Street 1 block east of LaGrange.
We'll depart at 8:30.

I saw the article on the Running Times web-site and I posted the link in honor of the brave and tough women that run with Tinley Track & Trail

http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=11830&PageNum=&CategoryID=

Wednesday Practice

One more hill workout before we return to the track.

IT'S RAMSGATE!!!!!

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/partridge+lane+and++wolf+road+palos+Park+IL/

From Wolf Rd. take Partridge Lane west all the way down to the bottom of the hill and park in the cul-de-sac at the end.

We'll start our warm-up at 6:30. There will be hills, thrills and chills. Something for everyone.

Junior Skull Update

Austin is running well for Mokena Junior High representing the junior Skulls. He ran with the group last summer and some during the fall and winter. He's a 6th grader and ran the 1600m in 6:01 in his second meet. 15 minutes later he came back and ran the 800m in 2:52.

~ Jim Sz

Saturday Practice April 19

This will be a fun one:

Meet at Little Red School House 9700 S. 104th Ave.

6:00am Ultra marathoners start running
8:10 Half marathoners/Marathoners or anyone that wants to get in a few extra miles
8:30 on the dot - 3 mile warm-up to tempo run
4 mile tempo run (starting on 95th and Country Lane Rd.
2-3 mile cool down run.

For the mileage monsters - 12 miles
For anyone else 9-10 miles

Wear your mudders it's supposed to rain on Friday.

We'll be moving back to Tinley Park Track on 4/30. Let the speed begin.

Practice Wednesday & A Bling Update

Team Skullduggery (Rich, Carl & Carrie) took home the gold in the Big Mouth Adventure Race in Oswego on Saturday.

Steve won his age group up in Libertyville Saturday in the Reach out & Run 5K. Anyone else race - throw it out there.

Kirk got 2nd in his age group in the Race to Wrigley

Practice Wednesday 6:30. Meet at the bike trail parking lot on 151st Street about 1 block west of Harlem. But don't park in the parking lot. Park on Catalina Dr. which is on the South side of 151st Street so we don't get locked in by the FP police. We'll do the famous "bridge to bridge" workout. A tempo run of 3 miles followed by a tempo run of 1.5 miles.

Saturday Practice - On Your Own

Many of the Saturday Regulars are racing this weekend so there will be no official practice.

However if you want to run with someone feel free to use the blog to set something informal up.

1/2 marathoners should be getting in a 10+ mile run this weekend.

See you all Wednesday.

A Funtastic Wednesday Practice

Meet on Fun Drive and then run a fun practice.

Meet at the pool parking lot in Centenial Park in Orland. Right off Fun Drive like last week.

We'll start our warm-up at 6:30.

Saturday Practice - Only one choice

We need a long run
It's going to be in the 50's!
We haven't been there for a while

Waterfall Glen -8:30
http://www.dupageforest.com/PRESERVES/waterfallglen.html
We'll park in the trail head parking lot which is on Cass Avenue about two blocks South of I-55.
It's on the west side of the street.

If any half marathoners want to get a couple of extra miles in be there at 8:15 and ready to run - we could get in 11 miles

17 people at the workout last night - pretty cool ....