Thursday Workout Recap / Run with Waverly
After racking up some good quality miles last weekend, I fell off the cart a bit Monday thru Wednesday while working in Bloomington, Indiana. When it is as cold as it is, the motivation becomes a bit more challenging to go out and run or even just make it to the gym.
I'm more of a night runner, but I'm even concerned about doing that there now because of not being able to see a spot of "black ice" on the road, falling and hurting myself.
Getting back to Houston, however, always seems to get me back on track and when I need a pick-me-up, it means heading to Bally's in The Woodlands.
Thursday evening after flying in from Indianapolis and seeing that Waverly and Gena made it back safely, I went to Bally's to post a relaxing 60 minutes (although I got stuck reading a People magazine) on the elliptical trainer (random, level 15, 5.40 miles) and another 30 minutes on the stationery bike (random, level 6).
After getting back home and having something to eat, Waverly and I went out for a 2.1-mile loop in the subdivision.
While at the Hampton Inn in Tullahoma, Tennessee (my wife's parents' hometown) on Tuesday night, Waverly logged 30 minutes -- completely on her own motivation -- on the treadmill -- in two stretches: one of 20 minutes and then another of ten (10).
Tonight the idea was to go fairly easy knowing that the plan was to run for three (3) hours on Saturday morning; however, we covered the 2.1 miles in 26:46.83 - a nice leisurely 12:45/mile pace for Waverly. (She did 12:00/mile at the last RTW and 12:33/mile in the Jingle Bell Run.)
We then went over - at 10:20 p.m. this evening - to my sister and brother-in-law's house to view the Channel 13 KTRK-TV piece on the two of us. It was very well done. I was pleased (except for my shorts running up my butt when they showed us running off into the distance.)
There was a funny exchange between Bob Allen and the two co-anchors at the end. The one male co-anchor (I know his name, but I can't think of it) said, "Walk? Interesting name for a runner, isn't it?"
I've had fun at packet pickup at races before. They'll ask what my last name is and I'll say, "Walk". And then I'll chime in, "Yeah, but I think I'll try to run it today." Always good for a chuckle. :)
I'm more of a night runner, but I'm even concerned about doing that there now because of not being able to see a spot of "black ice" on the road, falling and hurting myself.
Getting back to Houston, however, always seems to get me back on track and when I need a pick-me-up, it means heading to Bally's in The Woodlands.
Thursday evening after flying in from Indianapolis and seeing that Waverly and Gena made it back safely, I went to Bally's to post a relaxing 60 minutes (although I got stuck reading a People magazine) on the elliptical trainer (random, level 15, 5.40 miles) and another 30 minutes on the stationery bike (random, level 6).
After getting back home and having something to eat, Waverly and I went out for a 2.1-mile loop in the subdivision.
While at the Hampton Inn in Tullahoma, Tennessee (my wife's parents' hometown) on Tuesday night, Waverly logged 30 minutes -- completely on her own motivation -- on the treadmill -- in two stretches: one of 20 minutes and then another of ten (10).
Tonight the idea was to go fairly easy knowing that the plan was to run for three (3) hours on Saturday morning; however, we covered the 2.1 miles in 26:46.83 - a nice leisurely 12:45/mile pace for Waverly. (She did 12:00/mile at the last RTW and 12:33/mile in the Jingle Bell Run.)
We then went over - at 10:20 p.m. this evening - to my sister and brother-in-law's house to view the Channel 13 KTRK-TV piece on the two of us. It was very well done. I was pleased (except for my shorts running up my butt when they showed us running off into the distance.)
There was a funny exchange between Bob Allen and the two co-anchors at the end. The one male co-anchor (I know his name, but I can't think of it) said, "Walk? Interesting name for a runner, isn't it?"
I've had fun at packet pickup at races before. They'll ask what my last name is and I'll say, "Walk". And then I'll chime in, "Yeah, but I think I'll try to run it today." Always good for a chuckle. :)
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