You ever get out there on the track or the trail, and in the middle of a workout think to yourself, “what in the world am I doing? I mean really, who do I think I am? This is waaaay too much work just so I can finish 247th in the Not Your Ordinary 10K? […]

1000 meter repeats at Zilker Park. Beforehand Gilbert said, “minimum five, maximum eight.” After my fifth repeat, Gilbert said, “The men do more than five.” Ok. I did six. Some others, maybe not just men, did eight. Typical morning. No wanna wakey-wakey. Hungrier than normal. Kick something in the dark. Granola bar, park at Barton […]

Weekly popgun/sparkler/blackcat Monday morning run with Fletcher, the runner/rocker dude, et. al. I could only fit in 5 miles this morning due to time constraints (those darn kids and their schools!), but it was a healthy five miles (actually probably 5.25). It was a beautiful morning, the moon was slight and the skyline looked gorgeous […]

Thursday was 1200s. I’ve never done 1200s before and it was a weird distance for me. I wanted to stop after 800, or throttle down a bit for a mile pace, but at 1200 I didn’t know how to run consistently. Something has happened to my “group” in the morning, and for the first 3 […]

Just getting the recent workouts in the book before I forget. Saturday was a 7+ mile jaunt with Andre, Pat, Nelson and new boy John (but sometime Gazelle). Andre said his diaphragm was hurting (uh, you’ll have to ask him) so we took it slower than usual, maybe 8:00/mile. Coming up on the last 2 […]

2K repeats. 7:31, 7:39, 7:36. my 2K repeats in June were 8:02, 7:44, 7:20, so I guess I was a bit faster on average today, but slower at peak. This morning Gilbert gave his usual “start out slow, finish fast” speech, but I could tell 5 seconds into the first repeat we were going too […]

So I was slightly disappointed in finishing third at Blanco, but I was also pretty happy about finishing third at Blanco. Which is about right. Because on Sunday, I went over to my mom’s house and my sister, who was visiting from Houston, asks me about the tri and I tell her I finished third. […]

The Blanco Out Back Triathlon Mini Gator is probably the shortest, smallest tri in Texas. I wanted to win. I finished third overall and won my age group. Aww man … Yay me. Jessica also competed, and did well, as did five good friends of mine. So I did well, it was fun and I […]