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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, September 28, 2007

Friday Night: More Treadmill

I got in from LAX by about 7:30 p.m., was in Bally's - The Woodlands by 8:00 p.m. and got an hour in on the treadmill.

Ten minute warmup, then I did some intervals -- two (2) minutes (to simulate a 400) and then three minutes "recovery". The goal was to do this for up to an hour ... but the treadmill when I was doing a sixth 400 started to go "haywire" changing speeds intermittently.

Interval: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
Recovery: 4,4, 4.5, 4,6, 4,7, 4,8

When I got to the 5.8 mph interval, that's when the treadmill went nuts. I switched to another machine (different brand and just a completely different feel) and then did a nice and easy 25-minute slow run while reading a bit of the latest edition of Running Times that came in the mail while I was gone.

posted by WalkSports.com | 10:04 PM

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