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Southwest Endurance Training

Southwest Endurance Training

Coach-led running and power-walking groups and training in the Tucson, Oro Valley and Marana areas.

  • Training Groups
    • 5K Performance Training Group
    • Race-Walking 5K Training Group
    • Running Start 5K Training Groups
    • STaT – Strength, Track and Trail
    • Summer Running – SWEThogs 10K
    • 10K-Half Marathon Training Groups
    • Marathon Training Group
    • Track Workout Only Option – Wednesday Night Fast
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    • Running Start 5k Group Training – Begins 3/14/23
    • 5K Performance – NEW GROUP begins 3/14/23
    • Power Walking Group Training – Begins 3/16/23
    • STaT (Strength, Track, and Trail) – begins 5/31/23
    • Winter 10K to 13.1 Group Training – begins again late July
    • 26.2M Training Group – begins again late July
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    • Gwen: Road To Dopey
      • Gwen’s MJF Foundation Dopey Fundraising
    • Autumn: Learning to Run
    • Myron: 5K After Hip Replacement
    • Andrea: First Marathon
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Category: Runner Stories

Finding This Group Changed My Running

Posted on: July 3, 2019 Last updated on: July 3, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
That Was Me… All 300 Pounds of Me. I was a hot mess.  Well, let’s be honest, I am still a hot mess, but I am a mostly healthy hot mess now.  I have struggled with my weight and living…
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I love this running club.

Posted on: May 4, 2019 Last updated on: May 4, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
One of our runners (Gar) asked me a few months ago why I coach. “This is a lot of work, why do you do this?” I wasn’t prepared for the question, so I went to the simple answer.  “I love…
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Meet 5K Runner Myron Pecora!

Posted on: April 27, 2019 Last updated on: May 4, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
Think you can’t run?  Myron finished a 5K six months after a hip replacement after training with our 5K Running Start group.   We can get YOU there too.   “About 6 months ago I shattered my hip, landing on concrete…
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Meet Andrea Kravitz

Posted on: March 6, 2019 Last updated on: August 26, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
Meet Andrea Kravitz! “Before starting with SWET in January 2017, I wasn’t a runner. I attempted to start running in 2014/2015 but wasn’t consistent; my first attempt at a half marathon in 2015 was not pretty – I mostly walked…
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