Portugal Day Race

Portugal is known for it’s sardine dishes, and appropriately, they gave up canned sardines at the race.  Not exactly race food, but some Agonites said, “LOVE FISH.  I’LL TAKE IT!” 

This being a club points race for men, the following dudes got scored our Team Raffle tickets this time:  MarcoPolo, Captain Crunch, Kernel Kern, G-Man.  Sorry Melissa…last we checked, you weren’t a dude…  Here is the Raffle Ticket Tally.

Name	Raffle Ticket Count
Baldassari	2
Caine	2
Finn	3
Gormanly	3
Iwasaki	1
Kern	1
Laytham	1
Liriano	3
Lubin	2
Martin	4
Masi	3
Miller	1
Montagna	2
Pathak	3
Rallakis	1
Roberts	2
Silvestro	2
Tanaka	2
Wengroff Spencer	1
Yamada	2
Grand Total	41

Next race is at the end of the month:  PRIDE RUN.  It’s only 5M, it’s still open, and you get the best swag in town!  Oh, and it starts at 9AM, which means you might get some extra ZZZZZs.

Speed Work:  400m Tavern on the Hell Repeats.

We’ve had two pretty hard speed work so far, so this week, we’ll take it easy…well not THAT easy, though. 

On the Lower Loop, if you start from the lights at Columbus Circle entrance and head north clock wise, after about 200m or so in, you’ll see a big “400” written by the curb in the rec lane.  That’s the “400m more to go” mark for NYCM.  Your starting point is here.  Your finish point is the NYCM finish line, which is the set of crosswalk lights just past the “Tavern” - there are two set of lights here…the further one is your finish.  Since this is a slight uphill, make sure you are using hill climbing form and quick turnovers. 

Do 8 to 10 of these repeats.  This is to be done at “finishing pace”, so these should feel pretty hard and your lungs should be burning at the end of each repeat.  You get a nice full 400m recovery back down to the “400” starting point.  Agonites should be coming in between 1:35 to 1:50 per repeat.