Nov. 3-4 Weekend Update
It is a couple of minutes past midnight on Sunday morning. I'm watching the Internet coverage of today's U.S. Olympic Men's Marathon Trials and I'm kicking myself that I wasn't there earlier today as there was no rain! Ugh!
(Congratulations to Ryan Hall, Dathen Ritzenhein and Brian Sell and how sad about the passing of Ryan Shay. Just a testament that things can happen to any of us at any time.)
Normally, I would throw caution to the wind and just do it; however, I thought that rain was going to be in New York City from Hurricane Noel. I had made it back to Houston on an earlier flight and was able to get reward travel into LaGuardia. I just didn't know how I was going to manage the rain with the cold and the wind.
So instead of going to New York City, I was able to get in an 8.48-mile run this morning with the Woodlands Fit half marathoners. (Karen, when I mapped mine, that is what I came up with!) It was a run that I needed to get in as I've recently fallen off the truck for about the 39th time over the last three or four years.
From a time standpoint, I wasn't happy. But I felt good out there.
Mile one was fast. Why? I was running with a guy who is in absolutely the best shape of his life, Rick Cook. After about 8 minutes, I told Rick that I needed to back off. I hit the 1.99-mile mark in 19:19.12 - which isn't my 5K best, but for where I'm at, it is OK.
Mile 2.72, I had backed off to 28:01.88 and by the finish, which was longer than Bill's "8 miles", I was in at 1:30:36, which was a pace of 10:41 per mile.
I've got to get back and doing at least an hour of something from here on in.
Fri., Nov. 2 - Ran 1.3 miles from the office (I had to go in for about an hour and a half at 4 a.m.) to breakfast. Walked back a good bit of that to Bally's where I went and hammered out an hour on the stationery bike.
Sat., Nov. 3 - 8.48 miles in 1:30:36, 10:41 per mile.
Bill had introduced Rick and I to the rest of his Woodlands Fit group before we got started. Of course, when you run 100 miles, you get a round of applause which Rick so richly deserved. :)
With me, they said, "Oh, the sportswriter!"
I had Waverly bring over both the award for the Montgomery County Triple as well as the medal for the Texas Independence Relay.
I held off the second group for about 2 miles while Rick was off chasing the first group that went off.
We had breakfast with Bill at Skeeter's and then Waverly and I later met with Bill this evening at Denny's in Spring as we're preparing for a really special situation in The Woodlands that will come up in October 2008.
(Congratulations to Ryan Hall, Dathen Ritzenhein and Brian Sell and how sad about the passing of Ryan Shay. Just a testament that things can happen to any of us at any time.)
Normally, I would throw caution to the wind and just do it; however, I thought that rain was going to be in New York City from Hurricane Noel. I had made it back to Houston on an earlier flight and was able to get reward travel into LaGuardia. I just didn't know how I was going to manage the rain with the cold and the wind.
So instead of going to New York City, I was able to get in an 8.48-mile run this morning with the Woodlands Fit half marathoners. (Karen, when I mapped mine, that is what I came up with!) It was a run that I needed to get in as I've recently fallen off the truck for about the 39th time over the last three or four years.
From a time standpoint, I wasn't happy. But I felt good out there.
Mile one was fast. Why? I was running with a guy who is in absolutely the best shape of his life, Rick Cook. After about 8 minutes, I told Rick that I needed to back off. I hit the 1.99-mile mark in 19:19.12 - which isn't my 5K best, but for where I'm at, it is OK.
Mile 2.72, I had backed off to 28:01.88 and by the finish, which was longer than Bill's "8 miles", I was in at 1:30:36, which was a pace of 10:41 per mile.
I've got to get back and doing at least an hour of something from here on in.
Fri., Nov. 2 - Ran 1.3 miles from the office (I had to go in for about an hour and a half at 4 a.m.) to breakfast. Walked back a good bit of that to Bally's where I went and hammered out an hour on the stationery bike.
Sat., Nov. 3 - 8.48 miles in 1:30:36, 10:41 per mile.
Bill had introduced Rick and I to the rest of his Woodlands Fit group before we got started. Of course, when you run 100 miles, you get a round of applause which Rick so richly deserved. :)
With me, they said, "Oh, the sportswriter!"
I had Waverly bring over both the award for the Montgomery County Triple as well as the medal for the Texas Independence Relay.
I held off the second group for about 2 miles while Rick was off chasing the first group that went off.
We had breakfast with Bill at Skeeter's and then Waverly and I later met with Bill this evening at Denny's in Spring as we're preparing for a really special situation in The Woodlands that will come up in October 2008.
posted by WalkSports.com | 12:34 AM
1 Comments:
It was great to see you Jon! And Waverly too! Hope to see you both more often.
I don't know what to say about the distance. My Garmin said 8.24. Maybe she's acting up??
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