Spring Training for Eugene

Training for a long race goes better if you run with a group that shares your goal and a coach who has helped hundreds runners reach it previously. You set the goal, and I provide the group support and coaching advice for carrying out a proven training plan.

Our next round of training points toward the Eugene Marathon or Half (April 29^th). You can, of course, train for other races. But you must make the necessary adjustments in distances, and we can’t promise full support for those runs.

The Eugene Running Company has sponsored our training team since its launch in 2005. More than 500 runners have joined us, and their finish rate in halves and marathons is greater than 99 percent.

Most runs start at 8:00, with previews of the route emailed to registered runners each week. Weekly results are posted on this blog.

If you’re joining us for the first time this session, the training fee is $50 for these two months. If you paid that amount in winter, the additional fee for continuing in March-April is just $25 (which many of you paid in advance). Fees are payable at the store before your training begins.

We welcome runners of all abilities and experience levels. However, we strongly recommend that marathoners have a recent 13-mile run or race, and that half-marathoners have run at least four miles before this round of training begins.

The spring schedule:

March 4th – 5 miles for half, 7 for marathon (Joe is away)

March 10^th – 15 miles for marathon (on Saturday at 9:00, Whole Foods)

March 11^th – 6 miles for half

March 18^th – 7 miles half, 8 for marathon

March 24^th – 18 miles for marathon (on Saturday)

March 25^th – 8 miles for half

March 31^st – 9 miles for all (on Saturday of Easter weekend)

April 7^th – 21 miles for marathon (on Saturday)

April 8^th – 10 miles for half

April 15^th – 10 miles for marathon, 11 for half

April 22^nd – 6 miles for all

April 29^th  – Eugene Marathon & Half (7:00 start)

Our next round of training will target the Newport Marathon and Half (June 2^nd) and the Love Liberates Half-Marathon (June 23^rd). Target halves for summer-fall 2018 will be Coburg in July (when training will overlap with Love Liberates, for a single fee if you’ll run both), Florence in September and EWEB in November.

(Photo: Most of our 2017 Eugene team)