After much back and forth, I decided to do the 7-mile run this morning that some other Gazelles have organized. Based on the much faster and deadlier Bomb Run on Friday mornings with Gilbert, Bernard and that crew, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to hang on this run, known variously as the “mini-bomb”, […]

“So what are you training for?” “Oh, nothing. I just like coming to class.” Yeah.

Gilbert tricked us. He said we were to do five mile repeats. “That means you need to do the first one sloooooww. For you guys … a 6:50 pace.” So of course it seemed like everyone went out too fast. I was last in my group and coasted in at 6:45. I didn’t feel good […]

Or so says Dalton. But me, well, I don’t know about that. My back and leg have been in somewhat intense pain for about a week. I think it’s the sciatic nerve, though I have no clue about that stuff. I just know the pain starts in my left lower back, goes down by butt, […]

As long as I’m up and “bloggin’”, might as well add another one, eh? We did 2K repeats at Zilker on Thursday, and I think I may have actually done the training correctly. Gilbert emphasized that we were to run the first one slow and the last one fast, but of course he used much […]

Jessica said “i want to read more blogs from you, so please get bloggin’.” Uh oh, now I feel the pressure…. Anyway, a few weeks ago, I vowed to “build up a little endurance by actually doing the “long runs” that Gilbert asks us to do on the weekends”, so here’s an update on those. […]

Jessica and I were talking last night about tempo run, specifically about how much we dislike it and how it feels like we aren’t really improving. I even started thinking about this blog entry, and how I would title it “Tempo Run, How I Loathe Thee”. But alas, today’s 4-mile tempo run wasn’t too bad, […]

Man, re-reading the previous entry, I stand by my assertion that those blow-by-blow accounts of workouts are really boring. Look for fewer of those to come. So Jessica and I joked the other day that the night before running class I should just sleep in my running clothes so that I could just wake up […]