Swimming: Sun, 4/29, 6:30pm

Been practicing your body alignment in the water? It's time for another swim lesson with Andy. Meet in the pool at 6:30pm.

Swimming
Sunday, April 29, 6:30pm
Wilson Gym Pool

Sun Bike, TIME CHANGE

Let's meet at 11 instead of 10. Same place as described below.

Biking -- This Sun, 10 am, Eno River SP

Meet at the Eno this Sunday for a relaxed (read: slow) 24mi ride. Specifically, let's meet at the Cole Mill Parking lot (see highlighted area on map) at 10am.

The route is courtesy of the North Carolina Bicycle Club. I've also mapped it out roughly using this neat pedometer program. You can even check out the changes in elevation along the route! Cool. The ride Sunday looks like it's pretty even, aside from a few hills to start with.

Midterm Evaluations

I thought this could be a good time to get some feedback from y'all. I'm sort of running out of ideas for what our next workouts should be. Please shoot me an email or leave a comment about:

1) What workouts have you liked/gotten the most out of?
2) What workouts would you avoid in the future?
3) What would you like us to do in the future?

Here are some ideas I had for future events, please let me know what you think of them and if you have anything else to add:

1) More swim clinics with Andy. I got overwhelming positive responses from his session on Sunday. I'm thinking to go to a lesson every other week on Sundays at 6:30. How does that time work for everyone?

2) Let's do a race! There are lots of 5K's coming up (e.g. Angels Among Us, Race for the Cure). That could be fun.

3) More 'just us' workouts without a 'guru'. I think we're at the point with running and biking where we've got a lot of great info from our guest trainers, and now we need to just get more miles under our legs and build up our endurance. Jen suggested getting comfortable with running for 40mins before starting track or other "workouts". We could have more 'gym days' too where we spend time in the weight room (how many of us have been doing weights since that time in Feb with Talia? I know I've been slacking...).

Next event: biking, sometime this weekend -- feedback needed

So the next event is biking this weekend. Anyone have a time they prefer? I thought we should do another low key ride. Here's one I suggest, it's by the Eno River State Park and is ~24miles. Here's the proposed route description. And I even entered it into a pedometer where you can see the elevation changes. As you can see, I don't think it's that hilly. Let me know good times for you. I'm thinking Sun morning at 10.

Next training session: SWIM, Sun, 6:30pm, Wilson Gym

Our next training session is with Anna's swim coach, Andy. It should be great! Please be on time, because he's opening the pool just for us. The cost of this lesson is $5 per person.

Please leave a comment so I can give him a head count prior, and let me know if there's anything in particular you want to cover.

Running tomorrow -- *NEW* meeting time: 5:15pm

Reminder: running tomorrow with Jen! We're pushing the meeting time from 5 to 5:15 to accommodate some folks' seminar schedule. And don't worry, we'll be done in time to vote for popbio speaker!

Running with Jen
Thur 4/12, 5:15pm
Washington Duke Golf Course Trail
Entrance near traffic light at Science Dr and 751

Running tips -- from Jen

Jen, a fabulous long-distance runner, and Neil, her husband and a cross-country coach, put together a short document on some running training basics. Check it out. It has great info on nutrition, weight training, recovery, and generally taking care of yourself while training. Thanks for sharing the tips, Jen and Neil!

Next training sessions: Running and Swimming

Unfortunately, it was tough to schedule something for this weekend (being Easter and all), so we're off this week. But, don't despair, we've got TWO events coming up next week with 'professionals'. First, Jen is hosting a running training session this Thursday (4/12), then Andy will round things off with swimming on Sunday (4/15).

Running: Thursday, 4/12, 5pm, with Jen
Meet at the entrance to the Washington Duke Golf Course, at the traffic light on Science Drive and 751. Be prepared to run ~30min, and please be on time!

Swimming: Sunday, 4/15, 6:30pm, with Andy
Meet at the Wilson pool. Do not be late! He's an actual swim coach, and this is an 'official' swim lesson. He's doing this for us at the low low price of $5/person for an hour.