Dick Pond Athletics & Fast Track Racing Team to 2010
Dick Pond Athletics and Fast Track Racing Team have come together in 2010 to provide the Chicagoland running community the opportunity to train and race with an award winning team.
Please download and read our 
Membership Information document to learn how to run with the best.
Barrington Hills Group Run on Saturday, July 31st
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Come join us for 8 to 20 mile long run along hilly roads and past large estates. This is a great area to train for long hilly races like Boston.
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Location: | Barrington High School |
Map & Directions: | Google Maps |
Route Maps:
| 10.3 mile Route Map
12.5 mile Route Map
15.3 mile Route Map
20.75 mile Route Map
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Time: | 7:00 AM |
Park in the Barrington HS parking lot off Hart Rd., just north of the tennis courts.
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| The Barrington Hills Group Run is on Saturday the 31st of July 2010 at 7:00 AM. There are 13 hours, and 55 minutes until then! | | | Barrington Hills Group Runs are held on every Saturday from all year round except if falling on Independence Day, Christmas . |
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Long Grove Run on Sunday, August 1st
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Come join us for this hilly 10 mile run.
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Location: | Village Tavern in Long Grove |
Map & Directions: | Google Maps |
Route Map:
| 10.2 mile Route Map
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Time: | 8:00 AM |
Park in the Village Tavern parking lot, which is the first left off Old McHenry Rd. west of Robt Parker Coffin Rd.
This group run is cancelled because of the Rock N Roll Half Marathon.
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| The Long Grove Run is on Sunday the 1st of August 2010 at 8:00 AM. There are 1 day & 14 hours until then! | | Long Grove Runs are held on every Sunday from every Sunday all year round except if falling on Independence Day, Christmas . |
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Dick Pond Fun Run on Monday, August 2nd
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Join the Fast Track team at our sponsor's popular group run.
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Location: | Dick Pond Athletics' Schaumburg store |
Map & Directions: | Google Maps |
Route Maps:
| 4.0 mile Route Map
7.0 mile Route Map
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Time: | 6:00 PM |
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| The next Dick Pond Fun Run is on Monday the 2nd of August 2010 at 6:00 PM. There are 3 days until then! |
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Wednesday Night Track Workout on Wednesday, August 4th
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Pace Post
| Group I | | Matthew Jeromin | | | Group II | | Braden Renshaw | | | Group III | | Barb McGovern | | | Grace Wasielewski | |
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Come on out to our very popular Wednesday Night Track Workouts. There will be plenty of motivation to go around!
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Location: | Harper College outdoor track |
Map & Directions: | Google Maps |
Time: | 5:45 PM warmup/stretch and 6:30 PM start |
You may download the Fast Track 2010_MONTHLY_WORKOUTS_AND-PACE_CALCULATOR_July.xls |
| The Wednesday Night Track Workout is on Wednesday the 4th of August 2010 at 5:45 PM. There are 5 days until then! | | | | Wednesday Night Track Workouts are held on every Wednesday from all year round except if falling on major holidays. |
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About
Dick Pond Athletics and Fast Track Racing Team have come together in 2010 to provide the Chicagoland running community the opportunity for all runners to come train and race as a team. The impact of the team is the camaraderie, friendships and self-satisfaction in pursuing excellence.
Our "Power of the Group" philosophy is our strength. Our runners train and compete in road races and marathons together throughout the Chicago area and across the nation. Whether you are training for your first 5K or your 40th marathon, all runners are welcome to come train with us. Read on to learn more about one of the Chicago area's newest racing club and to find out how to become a member.
Wednesday Night Workouts
The Fast Track Racing Team will be training every Wednesday this summer. Below you may download our interval training workouts, which are posted every month.
Other weekly training runs that some of us do year round are listed on our Athlinks page. Once there, click on the "Where We Run" feature.
Fast Track's Extracts
Twitter Feed
Introducing the Fast Track Racing Team Twitter feed! This feed will be used for short announcements regarding workouts, races, and get-togethers. All information posted on this Twitter will be available on the team website, but will now be in convenient Twitter form. If you wish to receive text messages from this Twitter feed, follow the instructions below.
How to get text messages from the Fast Track Twitter:
- Go to http://twitter.com and sign up for an account
- Using your phone, text message the word "START" to 40404
- Follow the instructions that are text messaged back to you (first send your Twitter username, then your password, then the word "OK")
- Head to http://twitter.com/FTRacingTeam and click the "Follow" button
- When you see the green check mark and "Following," click the little phone button immediately to the right
- You will now receive text message announcements from Fast Track!
NOTE: By default, you will NOT receive text messages from everyone you follow on Twitter. If you do NOT want to receive text messages, skip step 5 above when following a Twitter feed.