TNT workout

 Me & Jeannie after our workout

Today we met at the Jordan River trail for our long run. The fall team, in their 3rd week, was doing 6, 5, or 4 miles, depending on the race they are doing. The summer team half marathoners (the full marathoners were out of town and did 20 w/me last Sunday) were doing 14.

I started out w/the faster runners, including one of our summer team half marathoners. She hasn't been able to attend the workouts, so it was super nice to have her along today. I did about 3 miles pretty fast, and then about 3 miles more slowly, with going back and forth with everyone. After escorting the last of the fall team walkers back to the start, I went out after our summer team runner (who had decided to do 10 rather than 14) about 1.5 miles and brought her back to the start. Finally, I racewalked way out (about 4.5 miles?) to get our summer team walker (who did the full 14) and then walked in slowly with her.

My Garmin said 16 miles, but I accidentally had it off for a while, so I really did more like 17.5 or 18, I'm guessing. About 2/3 of that was reasonably fast (11:30 or faster) and the rest was slower.

Some tidbits from the workout:
1) I really enjoyed walking with the fall team walkers. They were VERY into learning more about racewalking and were super enthusiastic. It was a blast! I think I might have a racewalking clinic for them.
2) We have 3 guys training for the Dublin Marathon (yes, in Ireland!!!). They are lots of fun and I really enjoyed getting to know them better. I was telling a couple of them that I'm a racewalker, and the one guy says, "Hey, no kidding - a couple years ago I was doing the Salt Lake 1/2 Marathon w/my buddy and about mile 8 we passed this speedwalker. Her shirt said on the back 'if you can read this, you just got passed by a speedwalker'." I started laughing really hard, because he was describing ME! I told him I wore that shirt at the SL 1/2 in 2007 (and of course my shirt said "racewalker" not "speedwalker"), and it was just one of those hilarious small world moments. He said when he saw the shirt that he told his buddy he'd get carried out on a stretcher before being beaten by a "speedwalker". I thought that was pretty funny. We had a good laugh about it and he and his friend seem to be enjoying having me as a coach.
3) The weather was perfect today - started in the upper 50s, and got up to upper 60s or low 70s. It was nice & breezy, so it didn't get too hot. Actually, it was pretty windy, come to think of it, but it didn't bother me. I enjoyed it since it wasn't cold.
4) We saw swallows, LOTS of ducklings, and enjoyed being outside a lot. The river was still quite high from the spring runoff from the mountains.