Thursday Night 5:30pm Workout: 1600 meter - 1000 meter - 800 meter latter intevals at Ala Moana Beach Park

Invite your friends! This week the 20014 GAR Champions: Tomas Puzey and Polina Carlson will both be joining the workout! We will meet tomorrow night at 5:30pm, Ala Moana Beach Park behind the tennis courts (mountainside/Diamond side) for a quick workout interval latter of 1600meter - 1000meter - 800meter with a 1/4 mile jog recover between each. Please come warmed up before and then will perform a short dynamic warm-up prior to the intervals. I'm proud of everyone who braved the rain and ran amazing at the Great Aloha Run on Monday! Way to start out the 2014 racing season! Here is a link to video and article about the race: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/24747618/thousands-take-part-in-the-30th-great-aloha-run See you tomorrow! - Coach Nate

Thursday night Run Group: Dynamic warm-up followed by 12 x 400-meter repeats with 1 minute rest between each. End with 10-16 minute cool-down. Everyone is welcome to come out for a speed workout as a final tune-up before the Great Aloha Run. Meet at 5:30pm at Ala Moana beach park behind the tennis courts (mountainside/Diamond). - Coach Nate

This Thursday Night 5:30pm: Come out for Farlek running workout 2 min hard - 2 min easy x 12

We will be meeting this Thursday night at 5:30pm at Ala Moana Beach Park (behind tennis courts, mountainside) for a long Farlek workout with 2 minute hard surge followed by 2 minute easy for 12 repetitions. Total workout time = 48 minutes. I recommend you perform a warm up for 10 minutes before and a 10 minute jog cool-down. Hope to see everyone, along with anyone that would like to join for the first time! - Coach Nate

Thursday workout: 5 x 1 mile repeats. Hope to see you at Ala Moana Beach Park at 5:30pm!

Champion Running Group! Thursday we will be running 5 x 1 mile repeats (goal is to run faster each repeat) with 2.5 minute jog rest between each mile. Workout will be followed by easy 2 mile cool-down run and stretching. Hope to see you at Ala Moana Beach Park behind the tennis courts (mountainside/diamond) at 5:30 pm for an inspirational talk and dynamic warm-up before the run. Remember, think like a champion, live like you are a champion, and be a champion! Someone is always looking up to you and looking to you for help or inspiration: be someones champion this week! - Coach Nate

Dr. Nate's Champion Running Group Tomorrow Night (Thursday) at 5:30pm at Ala Moana Beach Park behind the tennis courts (mountainside): Come out for some speedwork 5-6 x 800 meter repeats to start gearing up for upcoming 10k and Great Aloha races!

Polina and I are looking forward to running with everyone.  Invite a friend, all are welcome!

- Coach Nate

Above picture is from a 1500meter race I ran in 2008 at Pacific Lutheran University.

Running Group Tonight at 5:30pm at Ala Moana Beach Park

Aloha Champion Runners! Happy New Year! Our first run group of the new year will be tonight at 5:30pm in Ala Moana Beach Park behind the tennis courts (mountain/diamond side). We will get a good warm up in and then perform 3-5 x 1000m to 1200meter interval repeats to get some leg turnover and the lungs challenged. Hope to see you there! Bring friends. Lets start our Great Aloha Run and Hapalua training off with a bang! Coach Nate update: Whew, I had a busy December! After the Honolulu Marathon I took a month off from running, moved to Kailua, spend Christmas and New Years on the mainland, got married, and went on a honeymoon. Excited to get back into a training routine with everyone. Just started running again yesterday and have been performing core and strength training. I'm feeling up to the challenge of 2014 and I want to challenge you to decide to not stay in the comfortable and stretch to the incredible when it comes to life and your training! - Coach Nate

No Running Group until January 9th, 2014 at 5:30pm...Enjoy the Holiday and see you next year!

Dr. Nate's Champion Running Group will NOT meet this Thursday. If runners want to meet to share marathon stories and do an easy run, I encourage that. We will take a break for the Christmas and New Year's Season and resume running group January 9th, 2014 at 5:30pm at the same place (behind tennis courts, Ala Moana Beach Park). I hope to see all of you and new faces this January to start training for the Great Aloha Run, Hapalua Half Marathon, and your next marathon. I looked at all the marathon results and scanned for everyone's names, great running! I'm a proud coach! I would love to hear your story about your Honolulu Marathon experience this past weekend. Please post on the Facebook group page or email me at championrunninggroup@gmail.com. What was your time? Was it close to a PR? How did you do in your age group? Any other interesting things that happended. I hope to write about my first marathon experience this month, it was quite interesting. I respect the marathon distance even more now. Merry Christmas and enjoy a few weeks off and let your body recover. God bless, Coach Nate