Houston Running

One of the leading sources for the discussion of Houston-area (and Texas as well) road racing. Focus and attention will be given to Houston-area runners, specifically HARRA members, that compete in outside-of-the-area events as well as those who do interesting things that aren't captured in the various media outlets, such as Inside Texas Running, Runner Triathlete News and Roberta MacInnis' Running Notebook in the Houston Chronicle (all fine publications and columns but with limitations too).

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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, July 27, 2007

Activity Updates - July 23-29

Monday, July 23 - An hour on the elliptical trainer (5.01 miles, level 16, no sticks), 45 minutes on the stationery bike and then 2.1 miles with Waverly (26:30.31 - 12:37 pace).

Tuesday, July 24 - Just under 5 miles at the Knox Junior High track in The Woodlands. (Waverly did two miles and walked another half miles as a cooldown.)

Mile 1 -- 11:41.01 (Warmup with Waverly) - 2:50.18, 2:59.18, 3:01.41 and 2:50.24
Mile 1.75 -- 7:45.68 -- 2:49.72, 2:34.90, 2:21.96 (When I saw the first drop of 15 seconds, I wanted to do two more laps like that, but I was kind of spent after the third one.)
Mile 2.75 -- Four (4) 200s and walked the remaining 200s as a recovery
52.22 - 2:20.81
50.50 - 2:18.01
52.02 - 2:22.60
54.25 - 2:23.27
Yeah, yeah, I know. Sean Wade does 400s in time like this. :)
Mile 3.86 -- 11:18.19 over 1.108 miles (10:12 pace) - 2:42.65, 2:50.98, 2:54.72, 2:49.84
Mile 4.97 -- 11:20.64 over 1.108 miles (10:14 pace) - 2:48.39, 2:53.29, 2:52.98, 2:45.19

This was a good night for me. Waverly's warmup mile was really good although we weren't intentionally pushing hard. I need to learn how to do what I did in the 3/4 mile in a 5K race. Four (4) good 200s. And the last two miles (in the outside lane) were good because they were comfortable and not at a breakneck pace.

Wednesday, July 25 -- Nada.

Thursday, July 26 -- Nada might have been better because the run at Memorial Park this evening absolutely sucked ... but it was 5.8 miles!

Loop 1 -- 10:14.24, 10:50.94, 9:46.09 -- 30:51.27 (10:38 pace)
Loop 2 -- 10:49.66, 11:24.01, 10:27.55 -- 32:41.22 (11:16 pace)
Total -- 5.8 miles / 1:03:32.49 (10:57 pace)

Seen at the park? Jacob Tonge, Avi Moss, Stephen Major, Jack McClintic and Luis Armenteros.

After going to Bally's in The Woodlands to put in 45 minutes on the stationery bike, I got home and Waverly and I did 2.1 miles in the subdivision and covered the distance in 26:48.33 (12:46 pace).

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