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This time of year is really cool because there are a couple of relays that are very popular in town. Most road races are individual, so it's pretty awesome to get a team of 4 or 5 people together and go after it. The first event was the Zilker Relays. This is a 10 mile relay of 4 people. So each person gets a 2.5 mile leg. This is a great distance because it's short enough to make it accessible to a lot of people and you can pretty much go all out on it and not...
So this morning I had planned on running this little 5K, the "Get Your Rear in Gear 5K", which benefits colon cancer education etc... So the problem is that I did a 13.5 miler yesterday morning to the top of Mount Bonnell no less, and stuck with DV and Joseph. We were definitely the "fast runners" on the day. So then I had this dream last night that I was walking to the race and realized that I still had my work pants on, and I had this pair of stretchy shorts in my other hand. I couldn't...
Well, I did my first 5K this morning since running with Gilbert's Gazelles, and it was interesting for several reasons. The good news is that I finished 2nd overall (woohoo!), the downside being that there was really only one fast runner and he smoked me(dang!) It was really a community fun-run so the competition level was pretty low, but any time I can race and be timed, it's a good experience. I woke up hoping to feel good. In fact, I felt pretty poor. My outside right knee was really stiff from Thursdays' track run. My left inside...
My mailbox was once a strong, manly, fertile obelisk of rock-hard limestone. It was so large that it was somewhat conspicuous in front of my modest South Austin home. Then what I will only refer to as "the event which shall not be named" occurred. In an act of utter disregard for all that is solid and supple, some guy that was obviously under the influence of something rammed my mailbox at what must have been at least 55 mph. Oh, yeah, forgot to mention my coworker, Aaron, had parked his innocent and unsuspecting 92 Camry in front of my...
Today was the 3M half marathon. What a day! I got up at 4:50 on about 4 hours of sleep (tossed and turned like I always do before events). This is my first running event since splitting the Austin marathon 5 or 6 years ago. I slugged a protein shake w/ banana, got in the car and headed north. It didn't take me nearly as long as I thought to make it up north with no traffic, which was great because I had plenty of time to "do ma thang etc..." before the race started. I saw some Gazelles, and...
I did my first run at Meriden today with Gilbert's Gazelles. This was a pretty intense run. We did 5 laps of the approximately 1K loop. I ran together with Roger, Chris and Phil. The up and downs are pretty difficult. Running down the steep incline towards the end on Meriden, I could hear my feet slapping the pavement. I need to figure out how to mellow that out. Chris was dropping the pain on us basically at will, but it's always good to have a rabbit. Then afterwards, he skipped the other exercises. That's not even fair. ...
I did my first really long run in a while today. "Long" is a relative term, but today's run was around 14 miles. I felt really good almost the whole time. I didn't run very fast after Thursday's "tempo run", which was intense, probably 7.5 minute miles on average. I was still a little sore from the training last week. I'm really just getting back into the running "stride". The Thursday tempo run is basically a 4 mile "race" with all of the guys/gals in the group. It was my first tempo run. I run with Gilbert's Gazelles...