We encourage you to join this great training program with the DC Road Runners! Details below:
The DC Road Runners Club (dcrrc) has developed its 10-Mile Group (TMG) Training Program specifically with the Army 10-Miler (ATM) as its target race. This is a 12-week group training program, costing $40, which is scheduled to start on July 12, 2008. It meets each Saturday morning for a group run at different locations around the DC-metro area. The location usually changes every two weeks. The Program is planning to meet for the first three weeks at Gotta Run Running Shop in South Arlington on Pentagon Row at 8 am.
The Program will take registrations and payment at that location prior to the Saturday long run those first three weeks. After that the Program will switch meeting time to 7:30 am on Saturdays, and meeting locations, to places TBD.
The Saturday runs get increasingly longer until they are in the 10-12 mile range by the end of the Program. You should be able to run 3 miles or longer at the onset of the Program to consider taking the Program, and get your doctor’s approval before you embark upon strenuous physical activity.
There will be different paced running groups. Each runner is offered the opportunity to do an organized track workout on his or her own each Wednesday evening during the Program.
http://www.dcroadrunners.org/track.asp
Each runner will be assigned a volunteer group leader, and should run on their own two to three other times each week, three to six miles each time.
The cost of the Program does NOT include the cost of the ATM registration. Race entry does NOT come with the Program, each runner should sign up for the race on his or her own, although running in the race is not required to take the Program. The runner must be a dcrrc member to take the Program.
The ATM race is already sold out. There are plenty of other races in the fall that the Program should enable a runner to enter, such as the Baltimore Marathon weekend Half-Marathon the week following the ATM, and other local races.
Keep watching the dcrrc website for further information on the TMG Program. http://www.dcroadrunners.org/ You may sign up for club membership by going to the website and downloading a club application form and sending it in to the club, prior to coming to the first or second week of the Program and registering for the TMG Program.
The Program will also accommodate participants who wish to run in the Rediscovery 10K Race on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 8 am on Haines Point in DC, starting and ending at West Potomac Park. This 10K component will also cost $40 and will meet at the same places and times as the TMG Program. It starts on Saturday, 7/12/08 at 8 am at Gotta Run Running Shop and runs for 14 weeks. It will meet for training runs two additional weeks, on Saturday 10/4/08 and Saturday, 10/11/08. Participants wishing to run in the 10K race should be prepared to run/walk 1.5 miles the first week.
Further directions and information will be provided via the Forum chat room on the dcrrc website.
http://www.dcroadrunners.org/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=15 To get a feel for how the Program has been operated in the past, peruse its blog at http://dcrr.blogspot.com/
