Day One Fun

What a nice evening to start a summer training program. This cool weather is almost scary because you know the heat is coming. Christopher (my oldest son) and I walked over to Yokuts not knowing what to expect. What was unexpected was that we were not the first at the park. Brooklan, her son and her a couple of friends had already been at park for awhile hitting the jungle gym. Her 2.5 year old definitely has her energy.

Then Ariey suddenly appeared like Nixon in 1968 "tanned, rested, and ready."It was nice to see him and he said Edquist was coming by too. Of course, edquist just got home from a roadie to San Diego and had a six dollar burger before practice. All that was missing was Holt to make it seem like old Driller days. Guess he is lifeguarding up at BC these days.

We also had my first youth runner from the Rio Bravo Greenly district who is looking to get ready for the fall cross country season. Nick ran cross country last year and ran the 3000 in track this spring.

After a mile or so warmup run we did a couple 1200 meter runs at 5k pace. The small loop at Yokuts park is dead on 0.75 miles. The Andrews ran the first in 4 flat followed by Brooklan and Christopher in 4:50 and the others were under six minutes. After a short 3 minute rest, they were sent off for another one.

Ariey picked up the pace a bit and did the second in 3:50 and was followed by burgerman in 4 flat again. Brooklan and Christopher ran a a second or two faster on the second one. All in all it was a nice quick workout to kick off the summer.

If you would like to join us, please do. We meet at Yokuts every week night at 6:30pm except for Tuesdays when we go to either the McFarland or BTC Summer Series 5Ks. More info HERE.