Mile in Seattle. More!

Hello, UO Running Club — (Saturday, February 1, 2025)

We had 71 people at our second Tuesday evening track session at Hayward!

Entries are now open for the Club Mile indoors in Seattle on Friday, Feb 14 (Valentines Day). Contact me now at email heino@uoregon.edu or text me at 541-954-0263. We’ll use several criteria to pick our entries. First criterion is attendance beginning with the first day of fall term. Details below.

—We’re up to 53 paid Club members. You MUST pay the $50 Club fee before you travel to your first meet.

—Twelve weeks now until Eugene Marathon weekend!

WINTER TERM WEEK #5

Mon, Feb 3 — 3pm: relaxed run from IM field

Tues, Feb 4 — 6pm at “fire station corner” of Hayward Field:

— Do your warmup run before 6pm.
— Be at the fire station corner of Hayward Field (17th and Agate) by 6pm. We will all go in together, then the gate will close. Don’t be late, you won’t get in.
— Leave no trace.

All middle distance runners and distance runners —
Drills, strides
3 x 800m (cutdowns? Varied pace? Tactical?) 400m jog-walk
3 laps (lactate threshold, not in lane one)
2-3 x 400m (1500m date pace) 200m+ jog-walk
3-6 x 200m (faster) 200m jog-walk

Sprinters — Michael Donawa’s workout or:
Drills, strides (both running start and “leaning-falling”)
3-4 x “Speed Zones” ... 30m buildup to high speed 30m, then
30m ease-out (“wave to the crowd”) walk back
1-2 300m (high quality but not max) 5-10 minutes rest between

Wed, Feb 5 — 3pm: relaxed run from IM Field.

Thur, Feb 6 — 3pm: relaxed run from IM field, plus abs or planks (both?).

Fri, Feb 7 — 3pm: relaxed run from IM field or lactate threshold workout (tempo run 15-20 minutes, or cruise intervals 3-4 x 4:00 with 1:00 jog)

Sat, Feb 8 — on your own: exploring run.

Sun, Feb 9 — on your own: longest run of week … Super Bowl! Now 11 weeks ’til marathon and half.

CLUB MILE IN SEATTLE

We’ll take two vans to Seattle on Friday, February 14, to race an indoor mile that afternoon at 1:30pm with the clubs from UW, OSU and maybe Boise State. Van departure time from UO will be really early on Friday morning.

If you wish to be considered for the mile, contact me at heino@uoregon.edu or text me at 541-954-0263. Deadline for consideration is 10am on Wednesday, Feb 5. Travelers will be announced that evening in an email to the Club.

Selection of our entrants will be based primarily on participation (the more you’ve come to our 3pm Club runs this school year beginning fall term, the better).

Travel and race on the same day. Stay Friday night in College Inn hotel next to UW campus, four people per room. Sightseeing including Pike Place Market on Saturday. Drive back to UO on Saturday afternoon, arriving after 6pm.

You pay for your own food. There is no entry fee or trip fee but you must have paid your $50 yearly Club fee if you travel.

Departure on Friday from UO is early! Race is at 1:30pm on the Dempsey Indoor track (307 meters per lap). Vans will stop for pre-race meal.

About 24 runners will be able to travel. If you are unwell that morning, you must not go.

This isn’t the most important meet of the season. It’s just the first.

TRACK MEETS IN 2025.

‘NEED A COMPETITION SINGLET?

I still have green competition singlets. I bring them to 3pm workouts everyday. $25 cash.

EUGENE HALF-MARATHON, MARATHON, 5KM

It’s not too early to look forward to the biggest road races of the year in Eugene! They are on Saturday, April 26 (5km), and Sunday, April 27 (Eugene Marathon and Half-Marathon). They all finish in Hayward Field! Here’s the link:

https://www.eugenemarathon.com/

In the 5km race, if you beat Flapjack (men) or Flapjill (women), you win a year’s supply of Krusteaz pancake mix…

NEW TOTAL: $50 TO BE IN CLUB. 53 HAVE PAID. YOU?

**If you’ve paid online and you’re NOT on my list below, let me know at heino@uoregon.edu. 51 people have paid the Running Club yearly fee:

Ben Blonigen, Michelle Lopez, Kellan Murakami, Henry Domnarski, Patrik Balazs, Carter Phillips, Erik Danzer, Ashton Curl, Daphne Vostral-Shauer, Toby Brewster, Tim Scott, George Hervey, Mandy Ho, Hayden Brandt, Eli Bernell, Jack Snowden, Cooper Kingsbury, Jai Shah,

Robin Fernandez, Carson Houchen, Amalie Odegaard, Erik Barr-Zeilon, Miles Freightman, Nikhil Gujadhur, Evan O’Malley, Josh Gordon, Renee Gordon, Rodrigo Torrellio, Ari Yamada-Levy, Michael Little, Wesley Pheffer, Erinn Vargas, Seth Lewis, Emmett Reynier,

Jacob Cohen, Erick Munene Njue, Shannon Hugard, Avery Hackenberg, Hana Mazur, Izzy Pope, Rosie Baquie, Charlie Kirkendall, Lynell Cuddy, Madi Pizzuti, Zenon Reece, Jacob Weiner, Alessi Kwan, Jacob Long, Henry Dennis Nahl, Amelia Cuomo, Johnathan Propes, Dylan Williams, Maddie Snyder.

Your first week of Club attendance is free. After that it’s $50 for the rest of the school year. What a bargain!

(We have a fundraising requirement to be a Club Sport. And every van which we drive to a meet in Oregon or a weekend excursion costs us about $100.)

Here’s how you pay:

— Bring $50 cash to any workout, or a check for $50 made out to “UO Running Club”, or

— Two ways for electronic payment:

a) Go to https://ecommerce.uoregon.edu/order_form/emucs-club-sports-member-dues, or

b) Go to uorunning.com, our Running Club website. In the upper right corner click on “donate”, then “electronic donation”. We are the Club Sports Running Fund. You become a “donor” to the U of O Foundation.

If you donate online, please let me know!

ONLINE SIGN-UP FOR NEWCOMERS

For the 2024-25 school year, all Club members, both returning and new, must sign up before actually running with the group. If you signed up during fall term ‘24, that covers you for the whole school year.

Here’s the link:

https://uoregon.campuslabs.com/engage/submitter/form/start/644843

‘See you on the field,

Tom Heinonen

coach

Who we are. What we do!

UO Running Club gives students the chance to get together to run, train and race. Most of our sessions are steady runs. A couple of days each week we offer harder training sessions (intervals, repetitions, hills, tempo runs, cruise intervals).

The club is coached by Tom Heinonen, a member of the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame who coached the University of Oregon women for nearly three decades. In his time coaching the women, he transformed the team from a young program into an NCAA powerhouse. He retired in 2003 to start the club and has been coaching it since.

In the Fall, we compete in collegiate cross country races throughout Oregon, then finish our season at the NIRCA Championships, where we face other college clubs. In the Spring, we enter in collegiate track meets. Several of our runners earn the opportunity to race at Hayward Field each spring. There are road races throughout the year.

We have a wide range of talent and commitment levels, from recreational runners to All-Americans.

Club members receive an e-mailed workout schedule for the following week every Sunday. There is no fee to join the club.

All running sessions are optional. To join, just show up to one of the practices or contact one of us.

The Running Club is a great way to get together with students and to enjoy running!

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'Starting a Running Club?
'Building Your Club?
Read this, a document written by our Club leaders!

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