Saturday Practice 4/2

Great spring season guys! We turned it up a notch from last year and everyone stepped up and handled the extra workload. The added 100's & 200's we tacked on the end will pay off at the end of races - throw a few in yourself at the end of your workouts once a week or so. Saturday - Meet at Little red Schoolhouse at 8 am. We'll do a tempo and some hills. Group 2ers will like this workout too. Regarding shirts - e-mail me (richm259@comcast.net) the size you want. If you're not sure make it to next Wednesday's practice. I'll have shirts available for you to try on and hopefully jackets. Dues will be 20-$25 per person with that you'll get a jacket and a shirt. Much of the cost is offset by our sponsors. If you want additional shirts there will be an addl. charge. I'll have that exact amount by next week. Regarding dues - I also need to determine the final amount and I'll start collecting in a few weeks.

Wednesday March 30

Last week on the indoor track. Be warmed up and ready to go by 7.
It's relay night! We're going to pair up in teams of two and do 400m intervals - more details on Wednesday night.

Afterwards let's celebrate at Buffalo Wild Wings for drinks and/or dinner. Try to join us.

I have t-shirt samples which I'll bring Wednesday. You'll have a chance to pick your size. You'll only have 2 weeks to do this so try to try to make practice. Hopefully the jacket samples will be here too.

Saturday Practice 3/26

Meet at Waterfall Glen (Cass Ave 2 blocks south of I-55) at 8am on Saturday. Long run/fartlek

Speaking of fartek, try to start incorporating it into one of your weekly runs - you'll get double the benefit of the run combining a aerobic and anaerobic workout into one. Have fun with it - don't be too structured. Here's a pretty good article explaining it.
http://articleannouncer.colombot.com/primary-advantages-of-fartlek-work-out-an-interval-training-exercise-routine-to-enhance-anaerobic-as-well-as-aerobic-capacity/

Next week is our last run on the indoor track. To celebrate let's go out after practice. Mark your calendars.

Wednesday Practice 3/23

Meet at LW East High School. Warm-up from 6:30-7 and we'll start practice at 7.
We'll meet here for 2 more weeks than we'll move to Centenial park in Orland Park.

We had a great turnout on Saturday with 15 runners including 5 from group 2.

Here's the potential team jacket. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.companycasuals.com/jimcoleman/b.jsp?id=1017840&parentId=750

Saturday Practice 3/19

Meet tomorrow at Little Red School House (9700 S. 104th Ave.) at 8 am. We'll do a long run with a tempo mixed in. If any Group 2ers will be there throw down a post.

It's great to see everyone get stronger on Wednesday nights. Keep up the hard work, racing season is right around the corner.

O'Bling KaChing

TT&T cleaned up at the Running o' the Green

Jerry(PR), Gaspar and Francisco swept the 40-44 AG
Rich won the 45-49 AG
Bruce won the 50-54 AG
Andrea (new runner) was 2nd in the 30-34 AG
Caitlin Nelligan 2 in the 15-19 AG
Sue set a 8K PR
http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php?race_id=17996#racetop

Practice Wednesday LW East Be warmed up and ready to go at 7 pm.

Looks like jackets won. I'll start getting some samples.

If you haven't yet friend us on Facebook. We're close to 100 fans.

Saturday Practice - Post 666

Meet at 40 Acres at 8am.

Run with the guys - or the girls(Kim and Michelle will be there doing an 8:30-8:45 pace).

Good luck to all the skulls racing on Sunday in Tinley.

Great workout yesterday crew. It looks like everyone's getting faster.
Remember you have to make at least 5 practices to get a Skull label for your car.

Wednesday Practice 3/9

LW East High School
Warm-up 6:30. Be ready to run really fast by 7.

Thanks to your generosity we were able to collect $100 bucks for the park district supervisor. I'll have a card. We can all sign it and give it to her Wed.

Dues & TT&T apparel . Next week we'll start collecting dues. Probably $20-$25. In exchange for that you get to run with a great team for a year and get a piece of the highly sought-out TT&T running gear. Guaranteed to put fear in the heart of your competitors at the starting line.
Please vote for what you would like for this year. See survey on the right.
Note if jacket wins that will raise dues to the $25-$30 level.

Do your leg drills, run and vote. See you Wed.

Saturday Practice 3/5

Let's meet in Lemont and do the 10 mile Quarryman course.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Lemont&state=IL&address=55+Stephen+St&zipcode=60439-3632&country=US&latitude=41.675841&longitude=-87.999343&geocode=ADDRESS

Meet here and be ready to go by 8am. There is parking.


I'm not having a lot of success getting a Group 2 on Saturday. So I'm going to leave it to you to talk to your teammates and group up. Let me know and I'll post it and spread the word.

There is a group of women that run Friday afternoon at 3:30. They meet by the Palos Police Station off of 123rd street. Carrie/Sue/Karen = post some details.

We're gonna vote on the team uniform- singlet/shirt - starting next week. Check the blog by Sunday for details.