Groveton Bear Chase Marathon

Well I ran the Bear Chase marathon today and it was tough. Not that it was a demanding course more like tough because my body was a little more tired then I wanted it to be. I went out pretty fast around 750 minutes pace and felt pretty descent thru the first half. The only parts that bummed me out were the dirt trail parts of the marathon they really slowed me down. Guess I need to spend more time in the park to over come that. I finished with a time of 4hrs3min39sec. This is slower then I wanted to finish but I accept it because the more I have thought about it I have a had a great marathon season. I ran 5 marathons in my first season shaved 26 minutes off my first marathon time and completed the Marathon Challenge. What do I have to be mad about I see next season being a time of broken PR's and possibly a BQ yr. I also wont forget the great time I had at TIR and I'm looking forward to running that great event with the members of 7 hill. Let me take a chance to tell Katy way to go on your run. Hey don't think for a minute I didn't think about cutting my run to a half. You yourself have had a great season and I'm proud of you.

Advice from the Jedi Master!

Well today I called on the Jedi Master A.K.A. Ken and asked for advice about running two marathons so close together. Heck I figured who better to get that kind of advice from then someone who's 66 and has ran more marathons asleep then I have all my life. Ken if you read this Im giving you a compliment not putting you down. That being said he adviced me to go for a light 1 to 2 mile run and then take tomorrow and friday off so that my body has time to heal from last Sundays Marathon. So I ran two miles really really really slow in the rain and it felt COLD. And this will be all my running till saturday morning. In the words of another great jedi master Yoda " May the force be with you"

6 miles to Happiness

I went out today for my recovery run and had decided to keep it light, somewhere around 4 miles but being the hard head I am it turned into 6 miles before I knew what I had done. Sometimes I just forget to look a my Garmin to see my distance. At least I can look forward to a lot less soreness tomorrow because of today.
Keep running and smile life is good.

Rest Day

Well I took the day off today and went and had my post race massage. It always help to get the soreness out. Watched a little soccer and did somethings at the fire station. Tomorrow I will go out and jog a few miles but nothing major. Hope everyone had a good Monday.

Big D Marathon!!!

Well I had a great day today and I let myself down at the same time. The weather in Dallas was great, it was predicted to get to 80 but stayed around 59. The course was really hilly but that wasn't a problem for this boy from hilly Huntsville. I met a few nice people that I hung with for about 8 miles. Then came my problem, Mother Nature called and it cost me two dang minutes. I finished at 4:00:21.30. As most of you know I was shooting for a sub 4 hour marathon so that i could take it kinda easy this next weekend in Groveton. Oh well Groveton is flat and I'm ready, I WILL get the dang sub 4 hr time I want come hell or high water. Some of you may ask why am i trying so hard my first year of marathoning. I want a good point to start out at this next Marathon season on my quest to BQ.

Lets see Final results for today- 4:00:21.30(PR)
Overall place 106
Age group place and this was the best part: 17th woo hoo

Days Like today!!

Well today I started out my run planing on just gettting a few miles in to stay loose but not over do it. The tempature was ok here in huntsville around 74 at least thats what the internet was telling me. As I got about two miles into my run. I decided just to go where my feet took me and it was great I ran down some streets I havent ran down in a long while all thru Forest Hills. Never felt any pain and actually felt relaxed. I ended up running close to 7 miles.

5 days and counting

Well Dallas is 5 days away and I ran 6 miles today. No pains to speak of and the heat wasnt to bad. More tomorrow.