Does anyone have stories or background on this club? I went to their website and was impressed with their president George Parrot's philosophy and the articles he had written. Back in the 70's he mentions Doug Rennie ran for them as well. The training articles were engrained with the Lydiard principle. It is refreshing to see a club now a days that is reinforcing the concept of building up for a better runnning performance rather than just go out and run for fun without regards to training.
They have a lot of pretty good kid runners. And the kids do run high milage and race a lot. But the adult runners do not make any sort of dent in the PAUSATF Grand Prix XC or Track season. That is all I know about them.
Jogging, social, super-seniors, youth, ultra club.
The Buffalo Chips is a great club for connecting with other runners in Sacramento. The workouts that are held every tues night, in any weather, have had up to 70 or so peeople in the fall and the workouts are run on a business park loop versus a track to accomodate the number of people. They also have track workouts on thursdays, organized tempo runs and long runs on the weekends.
George Parrot is not the president and he has not been the president for 20 or more years. Parrot is a key figure in the club because he sets the workouts. He does believe in the Lydiard philosphy and 20 or so years ago yhey had a strong racing team back who could handle the mileage and the distance. I personally think he's dead on regarding the LSD and volume and the workouts held on tues night have a good amount of volume for someone running 80+ per week.
But when i've gone to one of these workouts, there seems to be no purpose. They go out and run each of these long repetitions (up to 2 miles!) as hard as they can and try to run each one faster than the previous one. When I went to the workout, I was running around 70 mpw but the racing format of these workouts was really taxing and i suspect that many of some of the slower runners out there don't come back very often and therefore don't stay with the club long enough to improve. It's too bad cause back in the 80's they were running pretty well on the PA circuit.
Check out Fleet Feet Racing in Sacramento if you're looking for a great club in the Sacto area:
Could you give an idea of your PRs, age, goals, and expectations of a club?
There are many in the Sac area, but could give you some ideas based on these.
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