Second City Track Club

Overdistance at the Glen...

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Welcome to SCTC Sylvana Northrop!!!

Sylvana is from Cupertino, California and recently finished up her education at UC San Diego majoring in cognitive science. During her time in college, she earned PRs of 4:20 in the 1500 and 15:45 in the 5k; setting school records in both events.

We are very excited to help Sylvana see how good she can be over the coming months and years as a member of our team!

Welcome to SCTC Ali Gillooly!!!

Ali started out at Iona then transferred to Loyola where she earned her Bachelor's in Human Resources and received her MBA. On the track she ran 16:53 for 5k and 35:33 for the 10k.

This fall she will be transitioning to the roads and making her marathon debut at Chicago. We are extremely excited for Ali to add to our team culture and performance this fall and beyond.

48 Hours Of Racing 💨💨💨

Different start lines, one HECK of a weekend!!!

Indy Mini Half
Josh 64:26 / 50sec PR / 4th Overall
Patrick C 90:20 / 4min PR
Allison 90:47 / 3min PR

Philly Broad Street 10miler
William 47:29 / 3rd Overall (4:45 pace)
Jack 48:28 / 7th Overall (4:51 pace)
Ryan 50:10 / 19th Overall (5:01 pace)

Schaumburg Marathon
Matthew 3:08 / 10min PR

So proud of these athletes 😊

It starts from the ground up...

Taking care of the details so we can focus on the work 🤝

It was that kinda day...🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

One of our best ever team 5k's at Ravenswood Sunday; 18 raced with 14 coming away with PB's!

INCREDIBLY PROUD of this group!

Paolo 14:59 / Overall Win
Kyle 15:29
Nate 15:54
Sabrina 16:42
Zach 17:12
Adéle 17:13
Maeve 17:21
Lindsay 18:07
Athena 18:23
Rebecca 18:30
Jeff 18:42
Meredith 19:13
Patrick 19:25
Bella 19:47
Lauren 21:00
Erin 21:15
Lili 21:31

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☘️SHAMROCK☘️

This was our 11th Shamrock as a team and we had our largest crew yet; 43 raced and 29 came away w/ lifetime bests! In the team competition; our Men's teams were 5th and 13th while our Women took 9th overall.

Our Men were led by William taking 16th in 23:46; he was followed by Josh 24:09, Eric 24:17, David 24:21, Jack 24:42, Matt 24:58, Kyle 25:02, Steve 25:33, Greg 25:34, Mikael 25:47, Nathan 25:50, AJ 25:52, Nate 26:00, Brett 26:07, Bryce 26:12, Chuck 27:54, Nelson 28:17, Brad 28:22, Zach 28:40, Deonta 28:42, Russell 28:47, Kahlil 29:32, Liam 29:44, Vignesh 30:25, Jeff 31:54, David 32:10, Patrick C 32:57, Patrick S 34:11 and Connor in 34:23.

Our Women were led by Sabrina taking 33rd in 27:50; she was followed by Caitie 28:08, Maeve 29:09, Adele 29:10, Lindsay 29:24, Avery 29:26, Grace 29:42, Meredith 31:05, Allison 33:07, Alyssa 35:23, Lili 35:40, Erin 36:31, Cat 40:29 and Sarah in 41:45.

HUGE thank you to .event for putting on this incredible event!

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Ready to (sham) rock and roll! ☘️🕺🏻✨

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Osaka Marathon

Incredibly grateful for giving a few of our athletes the chance to compete .official 🙏

A good measure of an athletes progress isn't how they are when things are perfect; it's how they are when things are not...Paolo (2:19) and Jin (2:42) both came within a minute of their personal bests on a warm day. Carlos had his first healthy build since 2023 and the goal was to get to the line and through the line healthy; which he did in 2:31. VERY proud of these 3 athletes 😊

Houston Marathon
2:30 / 4min PR / 6th Overall / 3rd American

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When Mimi joined SCTC in July, she felt stagnant; she was still running fast but it wasn't her best. The definition of insanity is repeating the same process expecting a different result; she already had incredible work ethic and character, just needed change her process.

People become good at what they choose to practice; we had 6 months to prepare for the demands of marathon. Months before Houston she did plenty of overdistance work to make the duration comfortable and she did plenty of work around marathon intensity to make 5:45 pace comfortable. Weeks before she just mixed the two together. You will become good at what you choose to practice.

There wasn't much to be said heading into Sunday; it was now habit and routine. She didn't need to have the race of her life, just needed to be Mimi and in that process, she had the race of her life.