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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.

Friday, August 12, 2005

A New PTR on Thursday Night!

You're asking yourself: "What is a PTR?"

Since PR's have been few and far between lately (the last being on Saturday, April 30 at the half marathon distance in Iowa), I set a new personal treadmill record (PTR) for the Precor Commercial model! (Having a best for each different brand is like having a PR for the track, the road and the trail ... lol)

Seriously, with it raining this evening in Albuquerque (the most I've seen since I've been working here), I ran 7.79 miles in one hour! I started the run at 6.4 mph (anything less felt like I was jumping from one rock to another) and then moved it up .2 mph every four (4) minutes. The last four (4) minutes were at 9.4 mph.

I think I hit the 5K mark in the mid 26s and I crossed 6.2 miles in 49:26! (As I said in Tuesday night's post, I place no validity in the number of miles! I'm just having a little post-workout fun!)

Bottom line is that I ran hard and felt good about it!

posted by WalkSports.com | 12:26 AM

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