| Location: Florence,TX,USA Member Since: Aug 06, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: ENTRY 1: Age 61 and I'm still alive and running. . . . . . ENTRY 2: Austin, TX, Muddy Buddy Masters, 1st place, 2005, 2006, and 2008 with Karen F. (see picture above - Karen H.; Karen F.; Me; Carey) (Karen H. & Carey did an Ironman in Idaho in June 2007) . . . . ENTRY 3: St. George Marathon 2001 3:18:03; 2002 3:15:56; 2003 3:18:04; 2004 3:19:03; 2005 3:37:21; 2006 & 2007 did not make the lottery. 2008 3:54:04 (tough). . . . . ENTRY 4: 2007 San Antonio Marathon - 1st place age group 60-64. . . . . ENTRY 5: Eight consecutive Boston Marathons since 2001. Best time so far was 3:35:09 in 2003. Age 55. . . . . . ENTRY 6: Pikes Peak Marathon 5:56:33 in 2005. 3rd place out of 54 runners ( group 55-59) Age 58. . . . . . ENTRY 7: Pikes Peak Marathon - 2008 - 2nd place in my age group (33 registered, 23 finished) running in the snow and ice the last 2 miles of the Ascent at the top . . . . . . ENTRY 8: 3M Half Marathon at a 7:11 pace in 2005, age 57. . . . . . . ENTRY 9: Congress Avenue Mile Austin, TX 5:46 in 2004. Age 57 Short-Term Running Goals: Entry 1: Get in a full 6 months of prep for 2009 Boston, no excuses, run a strong Boston. . . . .Entry 2: Use Pilates methods for core strengthening and flexibility improvements.. . . . . . Entry 3: Get completely healed from the muscle disorder that has plagued me since February 2006 (Polymyalgia Rheumatica) Long-Term Running Goals: Entry 1. Complete 10 consecutive Boston Marathons - I have done 8 so far. . . . . . . Entry 2. Continue running marathons through my 60's and into my 70's, 80's and 90's. Personal: Married, 2 children, 2 grand children. My 9 year old grand-daughter is convinced she is a runner. My 4 year old grandson loves to wear his Boston Marathon and Pikes Peak Marathon t-shirts. He wants to run the mountain with grandpa. Favorite Blogs: |
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A beautiful warm evening in Austin, TX, with temps in the 80's but fresh air after the rain storms we had this weekend. 2 miles warm-up, then drills with Donnie and the group. We had about 30 or more of us here tonight. A lot of folks were doing congrats for me and Aaron doing Boston last Monday, good friends.
Then Donnie had us do "circuits". Run hard 100 meters then do 10 push-ups, run hard 100 meters then do 10 lunges, run 100 meters hard then do 10 ab-crunches, run hard 100 meters then do 10 jumps. Repeat this routine for all 4 laps of one mile. Karen F and I ran this one together.
Then we ran 2 miles cool-down after a lap walking recovery. A fun evening. Only one week since Boston but it felt really good to give it a push. | | Add Comment |
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| Cross training tonight on the weights. 35 minutes of leg extensions, leg curls, ab-crunches, push-ups. I increased the weight each round. Legs felt shaky after the workout, felt good. | | Add Comment |
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A nice warm evening in Georgetown, TX. I met Tom at 5:00 PM at the parking lot near the Lake Georgetown dam. Tom had to be back by 1 hr 30 min, so we went on a discovery trail run along the northeast side of the lake. A nice challenging trail with rocks and roots and tree branches and all with enough up and down running to make this a good challenging run.
We pushed the pace at 10 minute segments and then took a 1 minute recovery walk, and repeated this for the entire run. By the time we finished I could really feel it in the upper legs. A great workout. We will probably do this kind of running on most Wednesday's as part of the Pikes Peak Marathon training. | | Add Comment |
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Ran alone at Lake Georgetown. Warm evening with temps in the 80's but not too humid tonight. I did some exploring, starting at the top of Outlook Park and running down below the dam and back up, then across the dam and over to the Cedar Park area and found the running trail on that side of the lake. Ran the trail which had several nice up and down rough rocky segments. This was my first time on this trail and it was special to do some discovering.
On the return trip I found the trail that went down below the dam and back to the trail that I had run at the beginning of the run.
I wore my heart monitor and watched it so I could run different segments in different heart rate ranges. During part of the run I would do some fartlek runs and push the pace getting the HR up to 165 and it felt good to do it. Overall just a great run to discover these new trails. It will be fun to show Tom these trails next Wednesday evening. | | Comments(2) |
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