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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.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Thursday Evening Treadmill Speed Workout

Nothing on the books for Wednesday after five or six solid days of workouts, but I made it to the gym earlier this evening after flying in from Kansas City (through Love Field).

I did ten (10) simulated 200s at two (2) minutes each (probably should more realistically go 2:15 or 2:30), but I ran hard nonetheless.

First 10 minutes - 4.5 mph
5.3, 4.5, 5.4, 4.5, 5.5, 4.5, 5.6, 4.5, 5.7, 4.5, 5.8, 4.5, 5.9, 4.5, 6.0, 4.5, 6.1, 3.5, 6.2, 3.0

Why the drop off at the end in the recovery? I had a hard time slowing down. I could do the interval. It was just - on the treadmill - hard to get back to 4.5 mph and hold it, so I slowed it down even more.

50 minutes of total running. I need to do this more often, I think. (Waverly got in 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and then 25 minutes on the recumbent bike. She knows that when she gets back from church camp on the 19th that she has to step it up or she will NOT be ready for volleyball tryouts the first week of school. The question is: How bad does she want it?)

For me? Personal trainer workout tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. and then the Toughest 10K in Texas in Lampasas on Saturday morning.

posted by WalkSports.com | 8:32 PM

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