I ran intervals this evening; I was planning to do three intervals of one mile each at six and a half MPH, but in reality what I did was more like this: Interval one = 1 mile at six and a half MPH. Interval two = .6 mile at six and a half MPH. For …
Several days ago I received the results from my recent blood test. Here they are:
This evening, Daniel and I went for a run together at the Barton Creek Greenbelt. It was really good to see water flowing in the creek again, even if it was muddy! Hopefully by the time Ken gets here next week it will be much cleaner — like it was last year. We entered the …
Today I ran the Texas Round-Up 10K foot race. I did it in 01:08:46 with a pace of 11:04 per mile, which is very close my goal. I finished ninth in my class of 60-65 year old men. There were ten in my class–alas– and 873 timed runners overall. The actual number of participants was …
I ran this evening with the ARC Thursday Evening running group. We met at 6:15 PM at the rock under the Mopac bridge. There were about 8 runners, including Jack, Bill, Josh and Troy (the leader). The group was a whole lot faster than I remembered from last year; perhaps it was a different group. …
I ran intervals again tonight. I used the Advanced Training option called “Wed Interval” that I created several weeks ago and refined last week. There are some modifications that need to be made: I need to add press lap button to the start of the first 12 minute run. I currently have it set to …
This evening I ran with Daniel on the Barton Creek Green Belt. Last week we had talked about finding the Airmen’s Cave. So today we found it on Google Earth and stored its location in our GPS units. Then this evening we let our GPS units direct us to the cave. After a short bit …
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Today I attended the first ACA Hosted Ride Program, hosted by Sarah F. Most of the group seemed to be folks who had participated in a triathlon last year, and they were just getting together again. It was a friendly group, even to me as a newcomer and outsider. (One participant ran in a 5K …
Saturday was an active day. Here are the three things that I did: Walk to clothes cleaners: Walk to barber shop:Walk to barber shop and coffee shopFind more Walks in Austin, TexasBike ride to grocery store and post office:
I had a nice easy run this evening at the gym. I have been reading Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy – Until Your 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and M.D., Henry S. Lodge. I have decided I need to go to the gym more and do more exercise in the aerobic …
I believe a painting of the coat of arms described above was commissioned by Tante Lisette as a gift for my father the year she died. It was found in her desk drawer, together with a note from my mother asking for a “coat of arms” for my father’s birthday gift. Much later, I found …
I ran intervals this evening. I set up an advanced workout on the Garmin that consisted of the following: Run until heart rate goes above 130 BPM. Run eleven minutes at 6.5 MPH. Repeat the following steps 8 times: Go until heart rate goes below 120 BPM. Go until heart rate goes above 145 BPM. …
Tonight Daniel and I ran a little over four miles on the Barton Creek Greenbelt. The weather was perfect with a temperature of about 70 and wind around eight MPH–not that we could feel it in the canyon, with tall trees and cliffs all around. We started at the 360 Access Point and ran up …
What a day for a race, it was beautiful! The temperature was a little chilly at the start but once we got going it was unnoticeable. The temperature was 47F with a ten MPH wind, but by the time the race ended the temperature had warmed up to a whopping 53F. I did not do …
I did a long easy run at the Gym Friday evening. I had the pleasure of shutting the gym down. We have a big build at work happening first thing next week, and there was a million little things I had to do before I left work, so I did not get out of work …
Tonight was interval night at the gym. I did seven intervals: the longest was almost ten minutes at six MPH, the fastest and shortest was at eight MPH and lasted about a minute. Before I got to the gym I really did not want to do intervals, yet once I was done I wanted to …
Wednesday evening I ran 5 miles with Daniel on Lady Bird Lake. It was overcast and tried to rain several times. All in all, it was a very good run; I was not sure how I would do after giving blood two days earlier. At about mile four, I did walk about 200 yards, but …