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Extra training fun

Coached practices run Tuesday and Thursday. The rest of the week, members organize their own workouts: track mornings, long rollerskis, open-water swims. Everyone is welcome, and there is no signup.

How it works

Someone posts a workout in the club Slack with the where, when, and what, and people react with an emoji if they plan to come.

These workouts are informal and not coached. The Thursday track sessions started with one member "wanting to do the speed workouts I would be doing anyways with other people."

When a practice gets cancelled, members often meet at the usual time and place and do the workout anyway.

Standing invitations
Thursday Track Club
Thursdays at 7 AM, spring through fall

Interval workouts at a Minneapolis track, with an optional group warm-up run to get there, a pace chart so all speeds can do the same workout, and a coffee stop after.

The Sunday Roll
Weekend mornings, dryland season

A long rollerski, up to three hours, at Elm Creek, Carver Park, Lilydale, or around the Grand Rounds. Long and short groups start staggered so they finish together, then everyone goes to brunch.

Open-water swims
Summer Saturdays

Member-taught lessons and open swims at Twin Lake inside Theodore Wirth.

Snow-day skis
Whenever it snows

Informal skis posted a day or two ahead at Hyland, Elm Creek, Wirth, or Battle Creek. During the March 2026 blizzard a group skied across the Stone Arch Bridge.

A dozen members on the track under a dramatic storm sky after Thursday Track Club
Thursday Track Club, May.
Helmeted rollerskiers gathered around post-practice treats
Rollerski treat crew, May.
The annuals
The TCSC Classic

A run over all 18 closed golf holes at Theodore Wirth each November, tee box to green, about 4.5 miles. 2025 was the third annual.

Tour de Ice Cream

A casual bike loop of four metro ice cream shops each August.

Birthday skis

A ski-your-age-in-kilometers day in January, and a 34-mile birthday rollerski around the Grand Rounds in May that bikers and inline skaters join too.

Time trials

A 10K rollerski time trial at French Park in November, track miles in August, and a 2-mile benchmark each spring.

The club also puts on its own fall race: the TCSC Dry Tri.