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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.

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    • Running Start 5k Group Training – Begins 3/14/23
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    • 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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Power Walking, Really?!  

Posted on: July 16, 2022 Last updated on: July 16, 2022 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
But SWET is a running group! Why Power walking?  Sometimes you need to walk before you run!  We are bridging the gap for individuals who are just beginning on their movement journey. While our Running Start 5k is a beginner…
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Southwest Endurance Training Spring 2021 Training

Posted on: March 13, 2021 Last updated on: March 13, 2021 Written by: Brandon Comments: 1
Spring is in the air, vaccines are going in arms, let’s go run!   I, for one, am happy for it to be warming up outside.  I am happiest running when it is warm, my running gets lazy when it’s…
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SWET Run From Covid 50K, Marathon, and Half Marathon Details

Posted on: November 25, 2020 Last updated on: November 25, 2020 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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2021 Winter Running Groups

Posted on: November 20, 2020 Last updated on: November 20, 2020 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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2020 STaT Wrap Up

Posted on: June 27, 2020 Last updated on: June 27, 2020 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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5K Running Start Groups Resume and STaT Begins May 27

Posted on: May 15, 2020 Last updated on: May 15, 2020 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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Announcing Spring 2020 Running Groups

Posted on: February 7, 2020 Last updated on: February 7, 2020 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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Winter 2020 Enrollment Numbers

Posted on: December 13, 2019 Last updated on: December 13, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
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…
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Experimenting With Running Nutrition

Posted on: September 12, 2019 Last updated on: September 12, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
You should be trying new running nutrition strategies. I had a seven mile run scheduled for yesterday afternoon, a medium length run according to my marathon training plan.  It occurred to me that I had left the house without a…
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SWET STaT

Posted on: August 20, 2019 Last updated on: August 20, 2019 Written by: Brandon Comments: 0
What is STaT? SWET recently completed its STaT pilot program.  STaT, Strength, Track and Trail is a departure from SWET’s typical training profile of running slow distance on only roads.  STaT’s goal was to take pre-conditioned runners and give them…
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