Marathon and Half Marathon Route Link 50K Add On Route Link We are a week and a half out from the SWET “Run From Covid” 50K, Marathon and Half Marathon. Here’s how this is going down: The Run From…
2021 Winter Running Groups
Take Social Distancing to a New Distance With the pandemic raging all around us, we need to be taking care of ourselves. The vaccine for Covid-19 is months away, but your physical and mental health can’t wait for that. Go…
Southwest Endurance Training Fall Enrollment Update
We are one week away from our fall sessions starting. 10K/Half Marathon Group Starts August 1, 5K Running Start begins August 4 and Marathon Group starts August 8. We have set up the groups to target goal races like the…
2020 STaT Wrap Up
We are super proud of our runners who braved the heat, smoke, rocks, pokey things and Covid to complete our STaT program. After crunching the STaT stats, in the group that completed the sanctioned final mile, there was an average…
Fall 2020 Tucson Running Groups
Fall Running Groups Begin in August! Coronavirus has disrupted running events, causing the cancellation of most events over the last few months. Race directors are still scheduling Fall events, but the pandemic is still evolving and putting uncertainty into upcoming…
5K Running Start Groups Resume and STaT Begins May 27
Coronavirus isn’t done with us yet, and we all have a role to play to keep to keep ourselves and each other healthy. We have been agonizing over the decision to resume our groups over the last couple of…
Announcing Spring 2020 Running Groups
New program and changes to an old fav. Gotta mix it up and keep it interesting around here! All of this thinking about spring and summer running while updating the website has got me looking forward to running in a…
Winter 2020 Enrollment Numbers
It’s beginning to look alot like running season! Southwest Endurance Training’s Winter 2020 training groups kicked off this week. We’re here with an update on our membership numbers. SWET’s total enrollment numbers for the session, as of this writing, are…
Running Shoe Life
I’ve been getting a bunch of “Hey Coach, do you think I need new shoes?” lately. “Let me see.” (runner presents the bottom of the shoe for inspection, the tread is paper thin and the foam is flat) “Holy mother…
What It Takes
I stumbled on this “gem” today while I was doing some research to update our website: You absolutely, positively, do not have to “run like a legend” to run the marathon. It’s garbage attitudes like this one that discourage new…