DC Road Runners Club 10K Training Program

THE 2009 10K TRAINING PROGRAM: The DC Road Runners Club 10K Training Program starts on Saturday, 2/21/09 at 8 am at the Gotta Run Running Store on 1101 S. Joyce Street #B-12 in Arlington, VA 22202. (That’s in Pentagon Row in South Arlington, just off Army Navy Drive. Parking is in the lot in the rear of the store.)

The Program costs $40 for a twelve-week training program, which meets every Saturday morning at 8 am for a long run at varied locations around the DC Metro area. The first four weeks will meet at Gotta Run, then change locations on a schedule to be announced. Saturday mornings will be devoted to running with a pace-appropriate group, starting at a distance of two to three miles in the beginning, and building up to six to seven miles by the end of the program. The group long runs should be combined with two or three shorter runs per week, which will be the responsibility of each runner to do on his or her own. Volunteer coaches will attend to each group run.

The goal race will the Capitol Hill Classic 10K on Sunday, 5/17/09. In 2008, 9 participants of the Program finished the Capitol Hill Classic 10K. Several Program participants continued their training by signing up for the 10-Mile Training Program in July and ran the Army 10-Miler in the fall.