NCAA, Pre Classic and you
Hello, UO Running Club — (Sunday, June 1, 2025)
It’s June! There are just two weeks left of spring term!
Come and run when your schedule allows. Our track season is over so it’s time to rest or do recreational running. Come and meet us for an easy run any weekday. We’ll meet at 3pm through the end of final exams, then take a break this summer.
‘Need something new to do?
— Count laps at trackside during the distance races at the NCAA Championships?
— Put up the World Athletics advertising signs at Hayward Field for the Prefontaine Classic?
Read below!
NCAA LAP COUNTERS
Here’s a message from Josh Seitz, the director of operations for UO track. He let us work out inside Hayward Field 15 times this spring. This is a great chance to say thank you!
Tom —
We are looking for lap counters again for the NCAA championships. We don’t need as many, and they will receive a polo to be worn this time.
Your crew did great at the Big Ten Championships. Would you mind sharing a survey link again?
NCAA Lap Counting Survey: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5sA3MbzO2J5NdMa
PRE CLASSIC: WORK FOR SWAG AND A TICKET
You can make money for the Running Club, get gear and a ticket to the Pre Classic on July 5.
**Contact Avery Hackenberg at averyhackenberg@gmail.com or 612-417-0790.**
Read this from Jake Willard from TrackTown, a Running Club alum:
‘Excited to get the club involved again this year! We would be looking to make a donation of $1000 to the club for volunteering its athletes to help with both install and removal of signage for the Pre Classic. The schedule we are looking at is:
INSTALL Sunday, June 29
• 9:00am-1:00pm
• 2:00pm-6:00pm
INSTALL Monday, June 30
• 9:00am-1:00pm
• 2:00pm-6:00pm
REMOVE Sunday, July
• 9:00am-1:00pm
• 2:00pm-6:00pm
We would be looking to have around 10 volunteers on site at a time throughout each day to help make it all happen, especially on the two Sundays where the bulk of the signage hanging/removal will take place.
Volunteers will be working with zip ties and wire cutters to hang all the banners around the stadium. All volunteers will get some Pre Classic gear and a free ticket to the meet for helping out.
If the club can provide those 10 volunteers for all three of the days, we can kick in an extra $1000 to the donation, for a total of $2000. For every increment of 5 over the 10 necessary volunteers, we will add an additional $500 as well. The more the merrier!
Contact Avery! ’Club, you’re the best!
Jake
SPRING TERM WORKOUTS: DEAD WEEK
Tuesday, June 2 through Friday, June 6 — 3pm at IM field: easy run, optional strides, abs, planks.
END-OF-SEASON … NOW WHAT?
Some of you have trained pretty hard this spring! We’ve had a lot of success but regardless of how it went for you, after the intensity of a racing season, the next step is rest.
For every high there needs to be a low. Rest and regeneration are part of the training cycle.
Now is a good time to do some easy running…or resting…before you eventually start a mileage buildup this summer for cross country or road races next fall.
If you keep running, do it because you like it, not because you have to. Run for fun, for recreation, because it feels good!
You can run recreationally until the first of July, then start a buildup of mileage for the fall season. Beginning in August I’ll suggest specific workouts with some quality running. The volume of that running will increase through August and September to be ready to start our cross country season (if you choose to) when you arrive on campus.
Now, rest or have fun with running!
‘See you on the field,
Tom Heinonen
coach
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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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