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Show WedThursFrl, May 8-10, 2002 The Park Record B-3 Successful softbali Miners lose to Tooele in first round of playoffs but not before team gets taste of postseason By JACKIE ELLIS Park Record Intern The Park City High softbali team walked off the playing field for the last time this season Saturday. With wet eyes and chins down, the Miners hugged each other, still proud of the season they had had. They could not help feeling disappointed, disap-pointed, though, after their 4-2 loss to Tooele in the first round of the state tournament. The team faced an uphill battle from the beginning of the game. Because of their losses to Judge and Union, the Miners were given a very tough bracket. Saturday's game against the third-ranked Buffaloes was held in Tooele. Coach Jenni Jellerson said her girls knew they were facing a hard game. "The other region is tough. Bear River and Tooele are both good schools, but then the competition just drops off," she said. "We knew we had to be first or second in our region to have a better game. It just didnt work out." The Miners were able to score in the second inning, but the Buffaloes answered loudly. With four consecutive consecu-tive errors, the Miners gave up four runs. "We had one error and then the next thing we knew, the bases were loaded and they all scored," said Jellerson. Park City had the opportunity to add more runs to the board in the seventh inning after Somer Flores had a clutch hit, followed by a walk and a hit to leave the bases loaded. The Miners were unable to capitalize capital-ize and finished the inning scoreless. "Their pitcher was definitely hit-able, hit-able, but we hit right to people," Jellerson said. "We did have nine hits to their six, but they were just able to score." year ends Even as they left the field, the Miners were planning for next season sea-son and looking for places in their game to improve. "We still need to work on clutch hitting," Jellerson said, "but our biggest concern is filling the spots of the six seniors." Next year's team is more motivated moti-vated than ever after having a taste of success. Jellerson is continuing to run practices and plans on going to a team camp this summer to make her team hungry for next year's tournament. tourna-ment. "The girls want to learn, but they still have a long way to go," she said. "They still need to leam about the little strategies and intricacies of the game." After surprising some teams and making the playoffs this season, the Miners have bigger goals in mind for next season. "I think it would be nice to win region and take state," said freshman fresh-man pitcher Somer Flores. "We just have to dedicate ourselves to the sport." ROAD RUNNERS kAAj I ETC .4141 I V N II 3jj 1 1 II It Airoyltfin. . ABD HiBQ Tin. 2&J. Sign up with on of the great Anytime calling plans and get Iyocora2.35 1IHMEE0 'Civ 'iz? 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The mental benefit comes from breaking 26 miles into segments, which you know you can do. Even sub-three hour marathoners continue con-tinue to take their walk breaks to the end. One of them explained it this way: "Instead of thinking at 20 miles 1 had six more gut-wrenching miles to go, I was saying to myself, 'One more mile until my break.' Even when it was t6ugh, I always ' felt I could go one more mile. Walk breaks in (he marathon: how long and how often? The following is recommended until . 18 miles in the marathon. After that point, walk breaks can be reduced or eliminated as desired. First-time marathoners should follow the ratios used in training as ". long as they havent slowed down 1 significantly at the end of the long ;ones. If you struggled during the Hast few miles, take walk breaks 1 more often from the beginning. A minimum suggestion for first-time I marathoners would be one minute ;of walking for every 3-4 minutes of running. 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Veram Time goal of more than 6 hours: 1-2 minutes of walking every 1-2 minutes running; Time goal of 5:50-6:00 hours and slower: 1 minute of walking every 4-5 minutes running; ' Time goal of 5:00-5:29: 1 minute of walking every 5-6 minutes min-utes of minutes running; Time goal of 4:30-4:59: 1-2 minutes min-utes of walking every 6-7 minutes running; Time goal of 4:00-4:29: 1 minute walking every 7-8 minutes running; Time goal of 3:30-3:59: 1 minute walking every mile; Time goal of 3:22-3:29: 30 seconds sec-onds walking every mile; Time goal of 3:16-3:21: 20 seconds sec-onds walking every mile; Time goal of 3:08-3:15: 15 seconds sec-onds of walking every mile; Time goal of 2:50-3:07: 10 seconds sec-onds of walking every mile. Why do walk breaks work? By using muscles in different ways from the beginning, your legs keep their bounce as they conserve resources. When a muscle group, such as your calf, is used continuously continu-ously step by step, it fatigues relatively rela-tively soon. The weak areas get overused and force you to slow down later or scream at you in pain afterward. By shifting back and forth between walking and running muscles, you distribute the workload work-load among a variety of muscles, increasing your overall performance perform-ance capacity. For veteran marathoners, this is often the difference dif-ference between achieving a time goal or not. Walk breaks will significantly speed up recovery because there is less damage to repair. The early walk breaks erase fatigue, and the later walk breaks will reduce or eliminate overuse muscle breakdown. break-down. The earlier you take the walk breaks, the more they help you To receive maximum benefit, you must start the walk breaks before you feel any fatigue, in the first mile. If you wait until you feel the need for a walk break, you've already reduced your potential performance. per-formance. How fast should the walk break be? When you walk fast for a minute, most runners will lose about 15 seconds sec-onds over running at their regular pace. But if you walk slowly, you'll have lost only about 20 seconds. Once we find the ideal ratio for a given distance, walk breaks allow us to feel strong to the end and recover fast, while bestowing the same stamina and conditioning we would have received if we had run continuously. Jeff. Galloway is a runner and coach with a lengthy and notable career in both track and road racing. rac-ing. He has coached thousands of runners through completion of their first marathon. The column is courtesy cour-tesy of The Utah Road Runners to help local runners prepare for the racing season, including the Sixth Annual Park City Marathon on June 8. Runners are welcome to email their training questions directly to Jeff. 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