Gang, we had two noteworthy performance yesterday at the Pike's Peek 10k.  David Wertz and Beth Young both ran huge, huge PRs, and demonstrated that they are both now squarely part of the local elite.  Dave's race was truly amazing.  In the coaching business we talk about athletes having breakthrough races, and while I've been in the game for over 25 years, I'm hard pressed to recall many bigger breakthroughs than Dave had yesterday.  His previous PR, which itself was a major breakthrough, was 33:32.  Dave absolutely destroyed that time yesterday.  Indeed, Dave ran a 5k PR en route, then ran the second half faster than the first half, thereby running a second 5k PR in the second half of the race.  It's not like Dave is some jogger who just took up the sport--he had already established himself as one of the better local runners in the fall, but this performance is an improvement by an order of magnitude.  And the fact that Dave has done this at age 35 is nothing less than remarkable.  Beth's race was almost as impressive, as she knocked over 80 seconds off her PR.  Beth is gearing up for the Green Bay Marathon on May 14, and I expect that I'll be telling all of you about that race in glowing terms!
 
The forecast for tomorrow is not particlarly promising, but let's not let the possibility of a little rain keep us from having a great practice.  As I like to say it's a great night to run with NOVA no matter the weather!  The workout will be 6 x 800 with a 400 jog.  Try to cut them down, so that the first rep is the slowest and the last rep is the fastest.  As always, if you have any questions, give me a holler.  See you out there!