Wednesday Night Workouts are back!

Written By Mike Smith

Starting April 4th at 6pm we’ll begin “track” workouts at ConVal.  All workouts are geared off 5K goals but work well for all distance goals.  Want to improve on your marathon time? 5K speed work will do it for you.

April workouts below:

April     4th        Bread and butter 200’s

    11th        300/200 workout

    18th         Negative split run

    25th        10 lap TT

Coming up!  Valhalla RC is hosting a Citizen’s mile at Mascenic HS preceding its home meet on May 5th.  Wondered what your official mile time is?  Show up for the 9:40 race and rip four laps on Mascenic’s “classic” stone dust track and then hang around and watch the local teams compete!  Sure to be a good time.

June 16th, 8am    Caddyshack Classic 5K, held at the Shattuck golf course, Jaffrey, NH , run the beautiful back nine on the golf course with views of Mount Monadnock on likely the most scenic 5K you’ve ever run.  Sign up on active.com

Mike Smith

Co president Mike Smith has been involved with running since he took up cross country in middle school.  While never one of the top runners across the state, he did come away with a 16:35 xc PR before he stepped away from competing in his youth.  Shortly into adulthood Smith came back to the sport for good, both as a means for fitness and simply to keep active and resolve some unfinished business.  Looking to see if there was something left for him in high school sports, he became the head coach for his alma mater, Mascenic, and coached there for twenty five years before hanging up the head coaching position this past year.  His teams racked up ten Division 3 team titles (8 boys, 2 girls) and qualified and competed at the New England championships twice.  Not bad for a school of 270 kids.  When not coaching, Smith is often found running, talking about running, or wandering around the woods and trails of New England.

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