Wednesday 19AUG2026

About a year ago, probably a bit more, invited me to his AM run.  It is bunch of folks from his Catholic Church.  They have dubbed me, in good spirits, the sole member of the heretic division.  There have been other heretics that have shown up, but they ususally don't come back.  It might be the 0515 start that scares them off.

Every Wednesday they go.  In the winter it is at the BHS track, in the summer it is at BHMS.  Some of the winter workouts are tough to rally for ... heading out at o'dark 10 after is not easy when it is in single digits and the wind is tagging it.  But they must 3 to 10 people each week.  They call themselves the Coyotes because they saw one at crack of dawn on one of their first gatherings five years ago.  

This morning was a kind sixty something degrees, perhaps a tad humid for Colorado.  We did the typical ten minute warm up (too short for me so I add on a bit ahead) with a couple of strides and they talked through what they wanted to do.  This AM was 4x8, 4x4.  For the longer reps, it is understood that we will also "time out" the rep - meaning if the leaders hit the 8 in 3 minutes, anyone else short of that stops and jogs to the start.  This is done to keep us together on time (ish).  I was getting about 700 meters on the reps this AM, and then doing about 95 for the 400s.  

I have decided my only goal for these is to breathe hard, get the heart thumping vs. worrying about a specific pace.  It breaks me up from doing the typical 9 plus minutes stuff.  8 miles on the morning.