I went for a long run this morning. It was about 8 miles, I had planned to meet up with the Sunday Morning Austin Runners Club group, but I was an hour late. So I ran most of the course myself. I started from home and ran 2 miles to the starting location, then ran […]
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Originally posted on RANDOM THOUGHTS FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008 I was cleaning out drawers today in preparation for getting furniture ready to move for the new carpeting job. (Carpet will be “Native Colors” a soft brown in Karastan’s “Divisadero” line, with little flecks of red and blue-gray in the brown, to help hide stains.) I
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Today Elizabeth, Marilyn, Tom and I traveled to three locations looking for birds. The sites were Mount Bonnell, Emma Long Park, and the Wild Basin Preserve. All three areas are part of the Balcones Canyonlands. The birds that we saw were as follows: Kite (Emma Long Park) Sandpiper (Emma Long Park) Turkey Vultures (Emma Long
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A visit to the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory with Elizabeth, Tom and Marilyn. A chilly day, but sunny. We saw a number of ducks and some grebes: Eared Grebes, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Green-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Buffleheads, Ruddy Ducks, Coots. We also saw some turkey vultures and several sparrows we couldn’t identify.
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St. Nicholas (ascetic Bishop of the early church in Asia Minor, feast day Dec. 6th, known as the patron saint and protector of children) became Santa Claus (jolly old elf with red suit, a big round tummy and a chuckling laugh, flying the world on Dec. 25th with 8 tiny reindeer)
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Today I took a long ride through downtown Austin. I have always wanted to take such a ride on a holiday when all the stores are closed and the streets are empty. I explored some of the streets that I dared not ride on at normal times, like Guadalupe from the University to where Lamar
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Last night the wind was blowing, the temperature was dropping, and I was thinking, “Thank goodness I don’t have to go out tomorrow!” Today the sun is shining, taking off that 27-degree chill quite rapidly, and it might actually become a nice day. But I still don’t have to go out if I don’t want
Since I hadn’t heard from Daniel about our Sunday run, and since I am recovering from a bad cold, I thought I would try a new (and hopefully easier) run that’s about a mile from home. So I met up with the AAWC (Austin Athletic Wellness Center) runners, a running group associated with the ARC
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Had a very good run this morning with Daniel, his wife Andrea, his mother-in-law Marilla and Chloe, their 10-year-old dog. We started at 9 AM and ran a little over 5 miles at about an 11 minute pace. The temperature was a little above freezing with no wind. In other words a perfect day to
One quarter of the way through my Interval run it started raining. I had adjusted the distances on my two intense legs and I was just getting them dialed in. The new interval session is as follows: Run until lap is pressed. Repeat the following 4 times. Run .33 miles keeping pace below 8:45 minutes
This morning I went for an easy run. I was planning to do 12 miles, my last long run was 10 miles, but that was under ideal conditions: I was running about 20 miles per week, I was 5 lbs lighter, had not given blood during the previous week and I had not been to
I ran the Trail Of Lights 5K this evening, but I just about didn’t make it. I left a more than an hour before the race, but I should have known something was wrong when I hit the heavy traffic at about 45th street on Mopac. I was moving only about 35 mph on the
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I really needed to get out and run tonight, for the last several weeks I have been sloughing off. First was the two weeks in Europe then giving blood on Monday and they said not to exercise for 24 hours. Then to top it all off, my usual Wednesday group had other things to do;
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I gave blood during the blood drive at work today, because I know that my type O blood is always appreciated. I try do this minor civic duty on a regular basis, so I went out and I gave a pint of blood when the blood van visited our company. This brought back many memories
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Getting To Switzerland Our beloved daughter Larissa is getting married to Mr. Hans-Georg Freiermuth in Zürich, Switzerland on November 24, 2007! After receiving that news, of course we begin making plans to travel to Switzerland. By the end of September, we have airplane tickets and a hotel reservation. (At this point, $.60 = 1.00 CHF)
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I had big plans for this weekend but the sore throat that’s been bothering me for several weeks got in the way of most of activities. Saturday I helped the Huntington-Surrey Robotics Team with their robot. Well, I stood around and gave a few suggestions. There were plenty of adults helping. The official start time
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Wednesday night’s run was interesting. Normally I run with my Wednesday group, but that is petering out now that daylight savings time is ending, the holidays around the corner, cold weather, etc. Several weeks ago we met Amy and her friends on the Town Lake trail and they invited us to run with them. So
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I had a real hard time getting going last night for the run. Yesterday it turned cold and I just did not feel like running. Finally about 9:30 PM I changed into my running cloths and hit the road. Here is a table of the results. It’s interesting how my first intervals are very close
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The Tuesday run will be very similar to last week’s run. The main difference is that I will do 8 intervals instead of 6 and the min speed has been changed to 8:45 minutes per mile as opposed to 9:00. The workout is as follows: Run until lap is pressed Repeat 8 times Run 0.25
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The Susan Kormen Race for the Cure 5K was a great race in spite of all the difficulties. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong in getting ready for the run. First off, the alarm did not go off at 5. Last night I very carefully set the time back to regular time. At
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Today I did the Tour de Gruene, starting in Gruene Tx. My day started at 6 AM when Mike picked me up for the ride down to Gruene. It took about 50 minutes to get there. The temperature at start time was a little under 60 degrees. I had worn my red coat but decided
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I had a physical exam today. Dr. Hahn found everything okay. My cholesterol was about 179 which is okay, however, I will start taking Lipitor in a couple of days. This is based on the presentation I attended several months ago about cardiovascular health. The presenter had a compiling case for taking the drug.
Tuesday run went a whole lot better than expected. I expected the times to be 9 minutes or more and I thought I might have trouble getting all the laps below 10 minutes. Here is the results: Lap Time Pace RT 1 2:09 8:36 0:54 2 2:13 8:52 1:17 3 1:59 7:56 0:35 4 2:15
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Here is the plan for tomorrows interval run. Wait until lap key Repeat 6 times Go .25 miles at a pace of 8:00 / mile to 9:30 / mile. Let heart rate go under 105 bps. Wait until lap key. Go 1 mile The first interval will start at the top of the hill and
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I have signed up for both events this weekend. Wurst Bike Ride in Gruere. (Saturday) Komen Austin Race for the Cure (Sunday)
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I have added a new advanced workout to my Garmin 305. The name is “Nov Long Run” and consists of the following steps: Wait for lap key 12 miles with not target speed, heart rate or time. cool down for 1 mile Hopefully, I will get to use this sometime this month. Next weekend is
I ran 10 miles today. Daniel, and his wife Andrea ran with me for the first 6 miles. Andrea’s mom joined us for several miles. It was a beautiful run, the sky was clear, the temperature about 60 with very little wind. We ran at about a 12 to 12.5 mile pace. You can check
This was my first tempo run this season also the first with my Garmin 305. I was hoping to be able to run as fast as I had last season but alas I was much slower than before and there were some strange anomalies. The most interesting one was my heart rate. I’ve used 165
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Why a blog of my own? I want to have a better record of what is happening in my life — my running, and eating. Also help my memory.
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In October 7, 2007, Marilyn and I were out for the Luckenbach run with the Volkssportverein Friedrichsburg. Here are some of the pictures that we took. I had heard about Luckenbach, which is just a few miles from Friedrichsburg, for a long time. Both places started as mid-19th century German settlements in the Texas Hill
Marilyn and I traveled to the very small settlement of Mountain Spring, Nevada.
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