Email #1 from Don Garber

Administrative: Shoe / Clothing clinic----your clinic will June 6th at the YMCA. For those of you who cannot make it, I will post the handout on the website later in the week

Routes-- The routes will generally be posted by Wednesday on the website.... We will not have mass quantities of these at the runs, so review the route and print yourself a copy before coming out on the weekend. Check out the website as it also has a message board where you can ask general questions and a lot of other good features.

Weekday runs... Over the next few weeks, talk to your teammates and find out when they run during the week. If you have several people who want to start running at specific times, let me know and I can post it on a separate page on the website. Look for more details later.

Book / Training Schedule... make sure to get it this weekend. Also, if you want an electronic version of the schedule, just let me know and I can forward it to you.

Training: Over the next several weeks, the first thing you should be concentrating on is to develop consistency. Nothing is more important that developing consistent, repeatable training habits. I call it "making it a part of your life". Making sure you get those runs in during the week. Not letting life derail you. Make an appointment with yourself to train. Put it on your calendar if you must. If you develop the habits when you are only running 30 or 40 minutes on Wednesday then the habits will stay with you when you need to be spending more time running later. If you get in the habit of missing runs now, it will be hard to change later.

Consistency. Discipline. Dedication... The things that get you to and thru the marathon. Have a good week. Be at your group run next weekend.

Don Garber -Head Coach

Note: Don sends weekly emails that I will share with our team. I will remove the information that is only relevent to those in Richmond to save space and avoid confusion