Tuesday Treadmill / Wednesday Airport
I'm pretty fortunate to know quite a few people. When you write about the sport on a regular basis, folks typically get to know who you are (or they've seen me before but don't know me) - and I get learn about them as well.
Last Friday afternoon, while on the stationary bike at Bally's, one of my TIR opponents, Juliee Sparks, walked up after finishing her workout. I think Juliee said that she was halfway - 20 weeks - until she gave birth to her and her husband's second child. She was in great spirits, looked well and it was a pleasure to catch up a little bit.
Later that evening while we were watching Rodney Hayden at Waterway Square in The Woodlands, we saw the individual responsible for the incredibly-successful November 2006 Run For Hans 5K at Run The Woodlands - Beth Whitehead. If she never wears a smile, I'd be surprised because every time I've seen her she's grinning ear to ear about something. I got a nice big hug out of it. :)
Yesterday at Bally's, the local running trifecta was completed when I saw The Woodlands retiree Bill Rowe working out on the treadmill. I've seen Bill often at many events on the north side of town. (He got done while I was in the middle of my run and we chatted for about five minutes.) He was wearing his green CB&I Triathlon shirt from earlier this year and indicated that he's excited about being able to do both the Huntsville Half Marathon and Ten For Texas, which this year are one week apart.
On the treadmill next to the right of me was the former Kory Weaver, who ran the 2006 Huntsville Half Marathon in 2:11:52. (She was in the 35-39 age group.) Since then, she said that she had married, but had commented hearing Bill's conversation with me that the Huntsville Half was a tough marathon. I told her that I had run 50 half marathons - including three in the city built on seven hills - and that it was perhaps the toughest (aside from Leadville) that I've done. And, by the way, she said that she had recognized me from being out at races. How? She said, "Isn't that your daughter?"
I did a little bit of a progression run, but I didn't get the whole way through that I had hoped. I started out at 4.5 mph and upped it .1 mph every five minutes. I got a 60-minute run in, but the mph settings went more like this:
4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
Still I got sixty (60) minutes in - pretty good and hard!
Now it is Wednesday afternoon. I'm sitting at Hobby Airport, because I have to take Southwest to Kansas City (MCI) tonight due to a $200 cheaper fare than Continental, and we're already late for our 3:40 p.m. departure (it is 3:50 p.m. now) because of lightning in a 3-mile vicinty of the airport. Sooooo, I may not get to go to the Royals-White Sox game at Kaufmann Stadium like I had planned.
Final project presentation tomorrow with our client, home tomorrow evening and then Austin this weekend (for some fun) and back to Jackson, Mississippi next week for work.
Last Friday afternoon, while on the stationary bike at Bally's, one of my TIR opponents, Juliee Sparks, walked up after finishing her workout. I think Juliee said that she was halfway - 20 weeks - until she gave birth to her and her husband's second child. She was in great spirits, looked well and it was a pleasure to catch up a little bit.
Later that evening while we were watching Rodney Hayden at Waterway Square in The Woodlands, we saw the individual responsible for the incredibly-successful November 2006 Run For Hans 5K at Run The Woodlands - Beth Whitehead. If she never wears a smile, I'd be surprised because every time I've seen her she's grinning ear to ear about something. I got a nice big hug out of it. :)
Yesterday at Bally's, the local running trifecta was completed when I saw The Woodlands retiree Bill Rowe working out on the treadmill. I've seen Bill often at many events on the north side of town. (He got done while I was in the middle of my run and we chatted for about five minutes.) He was wearing his green CB&I Triathlon shirt from earlier this year and indicated that he's excited about being able to do both the Huntsville Half Marathon and Ten For Texas, which this year are one week apart.
On the treadmill next to the right of me was the former Kory Weaver, who ran the 2006 Huntsville Half Marathon in 2:11:52. (She was in the 35-39 age group.) Since then, she said that she had married, but had commented hearing Bill's conversation with me that the Huntsville Half was a tough marathon. I told her that I had run 50 half marathons - including three in the city built on seven hills - and that it was perhaps the toughest (aside from Leadville) that I've done. And, by the way, she said that she had recognized me from being out at races. How? She said, "Isn't that your daughter?"
I did a little bit of a progression run, but I didn't get the whole way through that I had hoped. I started out at 4.5 mph and upped it .1 mph every five minutes. I got a 60-minute run in, but the mph settings went more like this:
4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
Still I got sixty (60) minutes in - pretty good and hard!
Now it is Wednesday afternoon. I'm sitting at Hobby Airport, because I have to take Southwest to Kansas City (MCI) tonight due to a $200 cheaper fare than Continental, and we're already late for our 3:40 p.m. departure (it is 3:50 p.m. now) because of lightning in a 3-mile vicinty of the airport. Sooooo, I may not get to go to the Royals-White Sox game at Kaufmann Stadium like I had planned.
Final project presentation tomorrow with our client, home tomorrow evening and then Austin this weekend (for some fun) and back to Jackson, Mississippi next week for work.
posted by WalkSports.com | 1:50 PM
2 Comments:
so...Is Juliee planning on being slower for next year? I plan on being marginally quicker.
If you're only going to be marginally quicker, I may have to look to make a trade for a "Runner To Be Named Later". :)
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