Tuesday Night Two-Hour Treadmill
A nice comeback, eh? I meant to last night, but went to get a bite to eat late and when I got back here to the hotel ... I didn't make it downstairs.
I feel pretty good. I'll pound the pavement this weekend out-of-state (after getting the trails Friday night as long as things stay on schedule.) I hear that "Coach Bill" is doing "double secret blind" workouts and that he'll be ready for the Brumble at Bear Branch (i.e. Nike South)!
Kept it simple and steady. The 4.0 mph setting on this brand - and it is one that has the TV monitors mounted in front of you (yes, it is Pasadena ... although not quite Hollywood) - doesn't feel like you're tip-toeing on it like the one at Bally's in The Woodlands.
So ... it was 4.0 mph to start and every 10 minutes bump it up .1 mph to 4.5 mph to get through hour #1 -- and then repeat!
Rick Cook would tell you that there wouldn't be enough money to keep him on a machine that long, but I'm not sure that I'd go traipsing up and down Arkansas hills for 20 hours this weekend like he will in the Arkansas Traveller 100. (I'll do battle with Central Park's rolling hills for something over 2 hours in the Grete's Great Gallop half marathon on Saturday.)
My speed is a function of my weight, my diet and the number of miles I put in (or how much I work out, including crosstraining activities.) I understand that.
And, to some former readers of this blog's surprise, I also don't care either.
When I feel like doing what I want to do to enjoy what it is that I'm doing, I'll do it. On my timetable and not anybody else's. :) We all have different goals. You want a sub 3-hour marathon and you're willing to put all of your marbles in that basket to get there and I want to run a marathon and a half marathon in every state -- and experience all life has to offer!
I've got a great column coming up in Runner Triathlete News in November, I hope, that I wouldn't have if I hadn't gone out to one of the Rice University Friday night All-Comers track meets. That same night, I got to talk about the sport with Jon Warren, meet a good guy in Glen McMicken - a publicist with the USATF, sports information guy at Rice and now assistant track coach at HBU, and watch Brett Riley try his hand at seven or eight different events - including the hurdles!
Here's the way I look at it: If I spent all of the hours running or working out that I did writing, compiling statistics and delivering a level of information on the sport that it is pretty darned good - and respected by many, I'd probably be doing all of the things other people want me to do.
But I like me ... just the way I am. All of the good things, and even some of the bad things.
How's that for a positive rant? And, oh yeah, in case I forget, I have a great daughter! :)
It looks like my Conroe Courier columns are starting to go online now. Here are the last two: September 25 and October 2. (And, ouch, they messed up the first sentence on the second one!)
I feel pretty good. I'll pound the pavement this weekend out-of-state (after getting the trails Friday night as long as things stay on schedule.) I hear that "Coach Bill" is doing "double secret blind" workouts and that he'll be ready for the Brumble at Bear Branch (i.e. Nike South)!
Kept it simple and steady. The 4.0 mph setting on this brand - and it is one that has the TV monitors mounted in front of you (yes, it is Pasadena ... although not quite Hollywood) - doesn't feel like you're tip-toeing on it like the one at Bally's in The Woodlands.
So ... it was 4.0 mph to start and every 10 minutes bump it up .1 mph to 4.5 mph to get through hour #1 -- and then repeat!
Rick Cook would tell you that there wouldn't be enough money to keep him on a machine that long, but I'm not sure that I'd go traipsing up and down Arkansas hills for 20 hours this weekend like he will in the Arkansas Traveller 100. (I'll do battle with Central Park's rolling hills for something over 2 hours in the Grete's Great Gallop half marathon on Saturday.)
My speed is a function of my weight, my diet and the number of miles I put in (or how much I work out, including crosstraining activities.) I understand that.
And, to some former readers of this blog's surprise, I also don't care either.
When I feel like doing what I want to do to enjoy what it is that I'm doing, I'll do it. On my timetable and not anybody else's. :) We all have different goals. You want a sub 3-hour marathon and you're willing to put all of your marbles in that basket to get there and I want to run a marathon and a half marathon in every state -- and experience all life has to offer!
I've got a great column coming up in Runner Triathlete News in November, I hope, that I wouldn't have if I hadn't gone out to one of the Rice University Friday night All-Comers track meets. That same night, I got to talk about the sport with Jon Warren, meet a good guy in Glen McMicken - a publicist with the USATF, sports information guy at Rice and now assistant track coach at HBU, and watch Brett Riley try his hand at seven or eight different events - including the hurdles!
Here's the way I look at it: If I spent all of the hours running or working out that I did writing, compiling statistics and delivering a level of information on the sport that it is pretty darned good - and respected by many, I'd probably be doing all of the things other people want me to do.
But I like me ... just the way I am. All of the good things, and even some of the bad things.
How's that for a positive rant? And, oh yeah, in case I forget, I have a great daughter! :)
It looks like my Conroe Courier columns are starting to go online now. Here are the last two: September 25 and October 2. (And, ouch, they messed up the first sentence on the second one!)
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