Personal Weekend Wrap Up
This past weekend was fairly busy for me, especially Saturday.
After running better last Saturday and Monday, I sort of stunk up the joint at Run The Woodlands 5K #133 on Saturday as I came in with a time of 31:17.33. (Complete race results can be found here.) I think it is the fact that I wasn't able to really workout or run on Wednesday and Thursday and was just too down in the dumps on Friday to do much of anything.
I got off to a decent Mile 1 start with a time of 9:28.87 and then I was able to put together one of my better second miles in the last six 5K's, 10:07.30. But the last 1.1, I sort of fell apart. It is like I don't have any staying power or it comes and goes (as I had it on Monday in Centerville). I was 10:43.64 in mile 3 and 57.52 in the last .1 of a mile.
If it is a slight weight issue (and believe me, I do not like to get on the scales), here is my dilemma: If I run too much for my size, I run the risk of injury; however, if I don't do enough, I don't have enough energy to burn off more than what I put in my body. (It's kind of frustrating. Especially when I have the staying power to do half marathons on back-to-back days and struggle now with anything less.)
After getting the results ready to send to Don Drewniak in Delaware to upload to Running In The USA, I took Waverly (and my niece, Haylee) to the Astros game against the Dodgers and then just the two of us last evening, we also saw the National Pro Fastpitch Texas Thunder in League City take on the Venezuelan National Team. The Thunder, on the strength of two-time Olympian pitcher Christa Williams from Deer Park, beat the Venezuelans 1-0 in eight (8) innings.
This morning (Sunday), I joined other Houston Striders for 11.4 miles at Bear Creek Park.
After running better last Saturday and Monday, I sort of stunk up the joint at Run The Woodlands 5K #133 on Saturday as I came in with a time of 31:17.33. (Complete race results can be found here.) I think it is the fact that I wasn't able to really workout or run on Wednesday and Thursday and was just too down in the dumps on Friday to do much of anything.
I got off to a decent Mile 1 start with a time of 9:28.87 and then I was able to put together one of my better second miles in the last six 5K's, 10:07.30. But the last 1.1, I sort of fell apart. It is like I don't have any staying power or it comes and goes (as I had it on Monday in Centerville). I was 10:43.64 in mile 3 and 57.52 in the last .1 of a mile.
If it is a slight weight issue (and believe me, I do not like to get on the scales), here is my dilemma: If I run too much for my size, I run the risk of injury; however, if I don't do enough, I don't have enough energy to burn off more than what I put in my body. (It's kind of frustrating. Especially when I have the staying power to do half marathons on back-to-back days and struggle now with anything less.)
After getting the results ready to send to Don Drewniak in Delaware to upload to Running In The USA, I took Waverly (and my niece, Haylee) to the Astros game against the Dodgers and then just the two of us last evening, we also saw the National Pro Fastpitch Texas Thunder in League City take on the Venezuelan National Team. The Thunder, on the strength of two-time Olympian pitcher Christa Williams from Deer Park, beat the Venezuelans 1-0 in eight (8) innings.
This morning (Sunday), I joined other Houston Striders for 11.4 miles at Bear Creek Park.
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:04 PM
6 Comments:
hey we were at the 'stros game as well!!
i have an un-related question btw. I have several pairs of old, but in great condition, running shoes and I wanted to donate them to Shoes for Africa/One World Runners/Kenya Shoe Expedition, but I cna't seem to find a Houston location to drop things off. Does Striders collect this stuff or do you know someone who does?
Cassie,
All of the Houston running specialty stores (Fleet Feet, Luke's, RunSport, On The Run, Finish Line Sports, Finish Strong Sports) take used shoes and recycle them effectively back into the Houston community. They don't publicize this, but if you bring old shoes in they'll take them. No club or organization that I'm aware of in Houston makes regular donations outside of Houston.
Steve, HARRA President Emeritus
thanks Steve!!
Sounds like it was a busy weekend. Even if you "stunk up the joint", the good thing is that you showed up. :)
The Texas Thunder that you mentioned, do they play down at those new ballfields that are off of 45 just past the League City exit? The ones that were made to look like professional baseball fields? I think I'd like to take my wife and daughter to one of those games.
Hope to see you out at a race soon. Take care! God Bless!
Jon- have you seen this blog?
http://woodlandsrunner.blogspot.com
He has a pic from the RTW which I thought was quite cool b/c I really had no sense of how it looks before....
Anyway, hope you're having a good week.
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