Weekend Race Update

It was a huge racing weekend for the ThunderDome Running Crew.  We had runners racing in Colorado, New York, and Pennsylvania...the Wisconsin race was canceled.  It is finally rolling into the time of year where all the hard work (base training/mileage) is paying off and the legs are coming around.

Dave Romano raced to a 5k PR of 20:42 in the 2nd of 3 races in the Frozen Foot Series held in Elizabethtown, PA.  Dave has been running for less than a year and continues to train and race tough leading up to his half marathon in a couple months.

Kathy Fodor's team raced in the Runner's Edge 3 x 2 mile winter trail relay held at Bethpage State Park, NY which was the site of the 2002 & 2009 US Golf Open. Kathy's team placed 4th out of 39 teams. The cool part about Kathy's team is that her team was made up of the most awesome running family in NY. Her son Thomas ran a blistering 2 mile relay leg along with her husband Will. Will is the elite runner race director of one of the all-time best road races in the United States the Cow Harbor 10k in Northport, NY. Kathy is prepping for a 5k in New York City the Coogan's Salsa, Blues, and Shamrock 5k on March 6.

My wife Erin raced for a second weekend in a row. She ran the 5 mile and I raced the 10 mile at the Snowman Stampede in Littleton, CO Saturday. Coming off of a 40:45 effort at the Cullen run 5 mile in Wauwatosa, WI, Erin raced to a new 5 mile PR of 39:54 on Saturday. PR's at altitude do not come very often.

I stuck to my 8 week base training plan by just logging miles & strength workouts and expected to have tired legs going into the race. The "just compete" goal worked great - ran 52:50 for 10 miles and ended up 2nd behind a 24 year old runner who ran for Penn State and is now a part of Brad Hudson's Boulder, CO elite training group. He won the race in 52:09.  Up until the 8 mile mark I was 12 seconds down but just could not hold pace over the last 2 miles, it is still early in training so eventually that fitness will be there.