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Location: Spring, Texas, United States

I'm a mid-to-the back of the pack runner who probably enjoys promoting runners more than I do running myself ... I've completed 21 marathons (with a 4:47:32 PR! in Austin) and 52 half marathons (with a 2:09:58 PR! in Oregon) since November 2003 ... I've done a marathon in 12 states, half marathon in 23 and an event in 30 states and one Canadian province ... I have a 13-year-old daughter, Waverly Nicole, who completed her first half marathon in January 2006, made only two B's each of the last two years, was the only sixth grader to sing a solo (Carrie Underwood's Don't Forget To Remember Me) in their choir program (adding Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw in '08) and scored a 19 on the ACT in December 2007 as a seventh grader ... Waverly and I are members of the following clubs -- the Seven Hills Running Club, HARRA and The Woodlands Running Club ... I'm Marathon Maniac #308 ... I edit HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and write a column for Runner Triathlete News called, "Talking the Talk" ... I'm also the running columnist for the Courier of Montgomery County ... I'm a three-time winner of TAPPS' Sportswriter of the Year Award as well as TABC's Golden Hoops Award.

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Bouncing Back

For the fifth day in the last six (6), I got in a decent-to-excellent cardio workout. They look like this:

Tuesday: 30 minutes on the stationery bike at the Marriott Courtyard in Albuquerque. (Was kind of disappointed that I didn't go further, but my overall fitness had dropped since the beginning of May.)
Wednesday: 59 minutes on the same bike. (Was really pleased because mentally there were times that I wanted to give up. I was doing an interval program.)
Thursday: 50 minutes on the elliptical trainer (4.71 miles) at the Bally's in The Woodlands. (Was really pleased with this workout even though I got on the machine at 9:05 p.m. Was close to when I can hammer more miles than minutes - 6+ miles for an hour.)
Friday: 60 minutes on the stationery bike and 32 minutes on the elliptical trainer (2.82 miles) at the Bally's in The Woodlands. (Again. Real, real happy with the workout even though I was short 8 minutes of my goal for the elliptical trainer.)
Sunday: 60 minutes on the stationery bike at the Bally's in The Woodlands.

I survived the temptation to go out and do a 5K yesterday although I fell short of my goal of going to volunteer for one.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

John-
I don't know how you find the energy to do a 5K every weekend it seems:) I only have enough energy to do one a month right now! Not a whole lot of good summer ones to do though, so I think I will take a break on racing til August/September.
-Jessica, a Houston Runner

6:29 AM  
Blogger Sarah said...

I'll be at the Summer Kickoff Fun Run tomorrow if you're in the mood to drive all the way down to League City... :)

8:37 AM  

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