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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.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Recent Runs (Thur/Sat/Monday)

Last Thursday, I put in 33 minutes on the treadmill at Bally's in the mid-to-late afternoon. I had plans to run another 40 minutes on the road, but that was short circuited due to a tragic accident to a friend. (Half was done at 4.7 mph and the back half at 4.8 mph)

After being totally beat and exhausted from Friday and working Run The Woodlands 5K in The Woodlands on Saturday morning, I put in 50 minutes on the treadmill Saturday evening (from 7:10 to 8 p.m.) and this was the same type of run -- 25 minutes at 4.8 mph and 25 minutes at 4.9 mph.

I traveled to Jackson, Mississippi yesterday and had designs on an evening treadmill run; however, that didn't happen. So while I was up making out my road racing/social schedule for the month of July, I figured I might as well get my rear end in gear.

So at 5:40 a.m., it was out the door for a planned 40-minute run. Since there isn't a nice, straight out-and-back to run, I ended up going almost 46 minutes on a cloverleaf route that crossed between Ridgeland and north Jackson.

The route looked like this and I covered 4.4 miles in 45:59.59 for a pace of 10:27 per mile. This run was done started out at an 80-85% level and ended up feeling about 85-90%.

posted by WalkSports.com | 4:46 AM

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