I’ve been slacking with the postings but I certainly haven’t been slacking with my running! Last weekend I ran a 25K race at midnight and the weekend before that I ran a 1.3 mile race at noon. You could call these the ultimate extremes, one at high noon for the shortest distance I have ever [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of 5K and 10K races during the spring and I finally got up to where I felt confident trying something longer. So last Saturday I went to San Antonio, TX to run the 10th Annual SARR Carrabba’s Classic Half Marathon. Since it was my first it was naturally a personal [...]
Last Saturday I ran a truly great 5K race that I kind of knew was going to be close to impossible to top on Monday in the 10K just two days after that 18:13 5K. Monday morning I drove to Arlington, TX to run the American Heroes 10K race. There just aren’t that many 10K [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I ran a 10K race last Saturday. Well I actually ran an almost 10K. The course was supposed to be 6.214 miles but it ended up being only 6.05 miles. That is what the measurement was on my Polar RS800cx with the calibrated footpod and it is the same measurement that I got once I [...]
Last weekend I ran another race. It was another 10K and I did alright. at my last 5K race I ran a 19:29 which means that in theory I should be able to run a 40:32 10K. How do I figure this? There are calculators on-line that do just that. They predict race pace from [...]
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 [...]
The day of my big race came and gone. I ran my first 10K race in over 18 years. Had you asked me last summer or even last fall if I would ever run again I probably would have said no way. But here I am with a 5K race and a 10K race behind [...]
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 [...]