Quintuple PR weekend!

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That’s right! I’m proud to present not one, not two, three or for but five new fresh personal best times from this weekend. Well they aren’t all mine but they’re very close to my heart so I feel the need to talk about them all. The first four happened at our local 5K, the Aledo [...]

Firemen’s 5K Run. Another PR And Some Hardware For The Drawer

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The weekend before last I ran a 5K on a whim and ended with a PR of 19:05 that was 24 seconds better than my last one. Last weekend I had a planned 5K and I hoped to beat that 5K time. I had high hopes due to the nature of the course. It was [...]

Went For A Fun Run, Ended Up Winning A Race With A PR

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I wasn’t going to race this last weekend but I ended up running a 5K. After last Saturday’s 10K my 5 year old son, expressed great interest in wanting to run with dad. So last Sunday I took him to the local track after my 8 mile long run where he promptly got side stitches [...]

My Smokin’ 2nd 5K Race

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I have started running on 1/12/10 as my choice of cardio exercise to replace my trusty hour of elliptical in front of  the TV. I have been running very diligently since then and I have seen constant improvements in my training by faster and faster paces for the same effort. But the real test comes [...]

My First Race Report

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I have signed up for a 10K for the end of February as my first race. And since I’m not big on doing things in a half ass fashion and I’m an all or nothing kind of guy I started a training program for the race 3 weeks ago. This training plan calls for all [...]