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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.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Sunday Night Run Stinks!

Instead of posting another 8-hour round trip drive to do another distance event, I stayed here at the apartment in Vancouver, rested and got a number of things done - including all of my laundry from last week.

I finished dinner at about 8:45 p.m. I figured that waiting until about 11 p.m. would be good enough to go run.

Although my route tonight had a lot of climbing (1,060 feet over 3.84 miles), I cut it short when I just didn't feel like I would get any benefit from pressing on with what felt like dead legs.

The damage? 42:54.71 over 3.84 miles for an ugly pace of 11:10/mile. (I also logged 30 minutes on the stationery bike Saturday evening although I don't think that that is the reason I felt so dead tonight.)

After looking it up, it isn't that bad; however, it felt a lot worse! But better than a lot of the zeros that I've thrown into the book the past month.

Starting this weekend and for the next two weeks, I get to run a lot with Waverly!

posted by WalkSports.com | 2:19 AM

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