Citius RC - Thursday Tempo Workout

Citius RC is hosting another Thursday tempo workout on October 15, meeting up at the South High School parking lot in the Washington Park area. It's a free session, and it starts early—5:30 AM—so you'll be done and on with your day before most of the city is even awake.

If you're not familiar with the local running scene, it's a bit of a patchwork. On any given morning, you've got track junkies out at 5:55 AM, brewery casuals meeting up around 6:30 PM, and trail purists who don't own a treadmill. These Thursday tempo sessions sit right in the middle of that. They're pitched as one of the city's best-kept social networks, and this one is framed as early, unglamorous, and exactly what you want if you're actually training for something. It's not a casual jog; it's a tempo workout, which means you're holding a steady, challenging pace for a set distance—the kind of run that builds the engine for a race.

That's the core of it: it's for people who are training. If you've got a goal on the calendar, this is the kind of session that helps you get there. And because it's a group run, you've got a built-in set of paces to lean on, which makes it a lot easier to hold that tempo than trying to nail it on your own. Between the runs, you'll find other runners in the same boat, which is where the social side comes in.

It all goes down at the South High School parking lot in the Washington Park area of Denver. It's free to join, and it kicks off at 5:30 AM on Thursday, October 15.