NEED TO KNOW: Week 14 (Race Week – Virtual La Jolla Half)

Saturday @ To La Jolla Cove (from Crown Point) 

• Meet: Crown Point Shores - http://bit.ly/egv7B7
• Map: Click
• Strava: Click

Sunday @ La Jolla Half Marathon Virtual – RACE DAY

This year La Jolla Half Marathon is going to be interesting as it is going to be a virtual race. Below are two route options you can use for your virtual race.

• Strava Modified La Jolla Course: Click
• Strava Alternative Half Course (Big Loop): Click

Social Events:  Aaron's Birthday Parade (Sunday 4/26/20 6pm to 6:15pm)

Articles: Click   

NEW Treadmill Workout 1.5: Click   

NEW Core Workout: Click   

NEW Bootcamp Workout: Click   

Dynamic Stretching Video: Click   

Cooldown Stretching Video: Click   

Schedule: Click    

Discounts: Click

 

                         

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Hi everyone!!!!

We have a busy weekend with a long run on Saturday, some of us doing the virtual La Jolla and we are going to try something that will look like a social event.

Look over all the details in this post and watch the video because there is a lot of info. Have a great run this weekend and maybe we will see you on Sunday.

LJ Half Race Info

This year La Jolla Half Marathon is going to be interesting as it is going to be a virtual race. Below are two route options you can use for your virtual race.

• Strava Modified La Jolla Course: Click
• Strava Alternative Half Course (Big Loop): Click

Running LJ Half & Related Training?

Many of us are running LJ Half, many are not.  If this is your goal race, then this is the big final push and Taper.  If you are continuing on to the RnR race AND running LJ Half, you have a choice if you want to push hard or not. If you are NOT running the race, but continuing onto the RnR, then you have a slightly different path:

• LJHM Only  – You are in Taper mode. You will do NO more hardcore specialty runs such as Hills or mega V02max sprint workouts.  You are tapering down. 
• LJHM + RnR  – You have a choice. If you are going to run hard, follow a taper for the most part and then do the race.  Plan on a quick week reverse taper to get back into things.  If you are just going to do it for some practice, then you won’t have to taper as much and you’ll want to “get back on it” very quickly after the race.
• No LJHM, RnR Only – You will still practice an active “Recovery Week” this week, but then be ready to push on next week.  Plan on doing a LONG run next weekend (4/28/14) which I’ll have more details out soon.

Remember, running very hard (hard training runs or racing) – is very stressful to the body so you HAVE to actively plan your schedules around the types of running you’re doing.

This Week’s Training

As I mentioned above, we are in a Taper week for La Jolla Half. In regards to training, we are resting up for race day. As for the RnR group, we are 6 weeks away from the big race and we are in our last cycle of building up mileage....this means that for the Full Marathoners you will see you Thursday and Saturday runs are creeping up. Some notable items for each group:

• Run/Walkers (ALL) – We are back up in mileage this week. The LONG run will be 110/160.
• Intermediate RnR HALF – We are back up in mileage this week. The long run will be doing 11 mi.
• Intermediate LJ Half – Race week / Taper week.
• Intermediate FULL – We are back up in mileage this week. The long run will be 16 mi.
• PR Chasers ­­­­ – We are back up in mileage this week. The long run will be 20 mi.

Upcoming Group Runs & Clinics

Below are the run maps and the group run locations.  At the very bottom of this post are detailed instructions on the meeting locations.

Saturday @ To La Jolla Cove (from Crown Point)

From Crown Point, head North around Sail Bay to the ocean and head North into La Jolla along the beautiful “bike path” and neighborhood of La Jolla.  It’s an Out & Back, so turn around where your schedules tells you, but you can easily get all the way to the Cove for a 15mi run, or the Shores, and further if you wish.

 

• Meet: Crown Point Shores - http://bit.ly/egv7B7
• Run:To La Jolla Cove (from Crown Point) - http://bit.ly/1aGDfmy

 

As Always

Please let us know if you have questions.

See ya out there!

Coach Aaron

Detailed Meeting Locations

This is where we will meet on Tuesday and/or Saturday. Don’t get lost :) 

Crown Point Shores Park (Southern Lot)

3550 Crown Point Drive, San Diego, CA 92109 -  (Address is not exact)

We'll meet at the Southern end of the most Southern parking lot in the grass area along the edge of the lot, closest to Ingram Street bridge.  Plenty of parking lot parking. There is a set of restrooms and water fountains in this end too.

http://bit.ly/egv7B7