The SF Marathon Training Group at Kezar Stadium

Track Overview – Welcome to the SF Marathon Training Program Track !

Today was the SF Marathon Training Program‘s first workout on the “Track“. The Track workouts are scheduled once every week on Wednesdays at the Kezar Stadium. The Kezar Stadium opened in 1925 and was built by the San Francisco Park Commission after accepting a generous gift of 100,000 dollars from the estate of Mary Kezar.

The Marathon Training Program co-ordinators came up to the front and introduced themselves.

Once the initial introductions were over, Tom Collier, our track coach, gave us a detailed description of the schedule for track Wednesdays. Tom also brought out a Pace-O-Meter and explained the different pace marks on the pace-o-meter, and told us how we should be feeling at each pace mark on the Pace-o-meter.

Finally, Tom ran down a list of popular running books including one from Running World Magazine before starting our Track Workout. (I will link to the actual list of books once I get it from Tom).

Track Log – Simple Laps on Lower and Upper Track

Since this was the first Track workout of the program, we had it relatively easy. We did warm up laps around the outer track of Kezar Stadium for 10 minutes.

Once we finished our warm up, Tom and the Pacers had us do some stretching exercises for about 5 minutes. These stretching exercises included lunges, butt kicks, butterfly stretches and a few more exercises designed to stretch all major muscle groups all over the body !

After we did the stretches, Tom asked us to run 2 to 3 laps around the inner track in Kezar stadium.

Finally, we did a 10 minute cool down run on the outer track before calling it a day.

I didn’t feel any soreness that night, but the next day, I my legs were very sore from the lunges that I did the previous night.

I consoled myself by thinking “Ok, Pain is FEAR leaving the body. So it’s all good !”

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