Sunday Afternoon Treadmill / Airport Run
More on the El Scorcho 50K/25K trip to Fort Worth later.
After returning my rental, I ran from the IAH Rental Car Facility back to the Parking Cents parking lot to where my truck was parked. Pretty pleased with the results: 10:57.85 for 1.15 miles = 9:32/mile.
Got home, showered, went to Bally's and ran 50 minutes on the treadmill. 4.7 mph for the first 45 minutes and then added .1 mph every 30 seconds to finish at 5.7 mph.
Alright, maybe a little bit of the El Scorcho now!
Saw TIR teammates Nick and Niki Bellnoski of Katy (via Huntsville) and Becky Spaulding of Houston earlier this morning. Niki finished 4th in the 50K for the women one place behind one of the classiest female runners in town, Suzy Seeley. Nick dropped after about 7 to 8 laps. Becky finished the 25K after running 20 miles earlier in the day.
Niki is training for the Cactus Rose 100. Becky isn't. It must be the lawyer in her.
That means in the last two weekends I've seen 7 of my current and new teammates - Jessica, Joe, Sarah, Erin, Niki, Nick and Becky. I've already told Quarles that I'll drive to Lufkin if we need to do a time trial in February to make sure he's ready. (He told me he did six miles on the treadmill yesterday morning.) Speaking of Edwin, he and Donna were in Dallas this weekend and Saturday morning they were taking the girls to Six Flags.
Also seen at the El Scorcho Run -- good friends Steve and Paula Boone, the faces of the 50 States Marathon Club.
(Note: In case you haven't noticed, the times for the Lunar Rendezvous Run are gun times. Why have the starting mats if you aren't going to post chip times? It's perfectly fine for quickly determining age group winners, but 95% of the people - who should be wearing watches and know their times - want to see their chip time posted, not their gun time.)
After returning my rental, I ran from the IAH Rental Car Facility back to the Parking Cents parking lot to where my truck was parked. Pretty pleased with the results: 10:57.85 for 1.15 miles = 9:32/mile.
Got home, showered, went to Bally's and ran 50 minutes on the treadmill. 4.7 mph for the first 45 minutes and then added .1 mph every 30 seconds to finish at 5.7 mph.
Alright, maybe a little bit of the El Scorcho now!
Saw TIR teammates Nick and Niki Bellnoski of Katy (via Huntsville) and Becky Spaulding of Houston earlier this morning. Niki finished 4th in the 50K for the women one place behind one of the classiest female runners in town, Suzy Seeley. Nick dropped after about 7 to 8 laps. Becky finished the 25K after running 20 miles earlier in the day.
Niki is training for the Cactus Rose 100. Becky isn't. It must be the lawyer in her.
That means in the last two weekends I've seen 7 of my current and new teammates - Jessica, Joe, Sarah, Erin, Niki, Nick and Becky. I've already told Quarles that I'll drive to Lufkin if we need to do a time trial in February to make sure he's ready. (He told me he did six miles on the treadmill yesterday morning.) Speaking of Edwin, he and Donna were in Dallas this weekend and Saturday morning they were taking the girls to Six Flags.
Also seen at the El Scorcho Run -- good friends Steve and Paula Boone, the faces of the 50 States Marathon Club.
(Note: In case you haven't noticed, the times for the Lunar Rendezvous Run are gun times. Why have the starting mats if you aren't going to post chip times? It's perfectly fine for quickly determining age group winners, but 95% of the people - who should be wearing watches and know their times - want to see their chip time posted, not their gun time.)
posted by WalkSports.com | 5:30 PM
4 Comments:
I believe they intended to do chip times, but had a problem. At least that's what I gather from Joe's blog...
Sarah, I saw that. Of course, after I made this post!
I've been to a lot of races, though, that have done it like the end result was on Saturday. Wear the chip only to sort out the age group awards at the end.
Have you put together a list yet of who is running in San Antonio? How many teammates are registered?
I might want to go run the half.
Tiggs, I'm in for the San Antonio full...not exactly for a TX Showdown caiber time, but in, nontheless.
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