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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, November 11, 2005

Training: One Good Loop, One Blah Loop!

If it hadn't been for a blowout of my back left tire on my Ford F150 pickup truck Friday evening going down Interstate 45 to the Kinkaid-Westbury Christian boys basketball game, I wouldn't have even gotten these 4.2 miles in! It was my first run after New York City and I did the 2.1-mile loop in our subdivision twice. One loop hard and the other one, well, not as hard! Times were as follows:

Loop 1 (2.1 miles) -- 20:36.03 - 9:49/mile
Loop 2 (2.1 miles) -- 23:04.41 - 10:59/mile

Overall (4.2 miles) -- 43:40.44 - 10:24/mile

I thought the mile per minute discrepancy between the two loops was going to be bigger, but it wasn't. I can do better. :) OK, time to get the mileage ramped back up. I've come too far to throw in the towel and just do this for recreation! Run The Woodlands #141 in the morning!

posted by WalkSports.com | 9:57 PM

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