Author name: Gary

This evening I ran five miles on the Hike and Bike trail around Lady Bird Lake. I was prepared for a hot slog similar to last week, but about a mile into the run the wind came up and it started raining lightly which cooled the air down and made running a whole lot more […]

This evenings run was a hot, hot, hot, about ninety seven at the beginning and it dropped all the way down to ninety five by the time I quit. To top it all off I did not hydrate enough through out the afternoon. When it came time to leave I realized I had not been

Yippee! I did it. I finished the Congress Avenue Mile in 8:53. That is an all-time record for me (At least since, I was in high school — but I do not remember the details of my running times that far back.) That was a pace of eight minutes and fifty-two seconds per mile! That

I did a long run this evening. Running from Mo-Pac to I-35 along Town Lake Trail. It took about one and a half hours at an average speed of about five mile per hour. My heart rate was a little higher than I would have liked at 129, it was thirty two minutes in the

This evening I did four intervals at the gym preparing for the 2008 Puma Congress Avenue Mile this Saturday. I was wanting to get an idea how long it would take to run a mile. The first interval was a warm up interval where I wanted to get my heart rate up to 125 beats

This evening Daniel and I went the Barton Creek Greenbelt for a four and a half mile run. It was a really good run, the clouds looked heavy like it could start raining at any point, and we felt a few drops at the start, but it never did. The two main things that happened

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

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

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 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

Today I got a personal record (PR) in the Statesman Capitol 10K. I ran it in 1:09:59. Since I rode the bike for 4 hours in yesterday’s Rosedale Ride, I was not expecting to have a great race time in the 10K. I felt I would be happy just to run the race and not

I ran the Daisy 5K this morning. It was a beautiful morning with a lot of runners out. The race started at the Rogue store, just east of the freeway. The area looked pretty depressed, with numerous homeless people (I think) in sleeping bags on the lot just across the street from the starting point.

This evening we went for the first trail run of the season. Daniel, Doug, Michael, Charles and I met at the powerline entrance to the Green Belt at about 5:30 PM, (after work). Charles was riding his bike, so he went his own way and we did not see him after the start. He went

I ran the Star Flight 5K today. Did not get a PR (Personal Record) for a 5K but was close. I ran the race in 31 minutes which is a pace of 9 minutes and 58 seconds. It is my second race with a sub 10 minute pace, which is good for my first race

I ran intervals this evening at the gym. I did 9 intervals with the fastest a bit below eight MPH, of course that did not last long, about forty five seconds. Somewhere near the middle, I ran one interval for two minutes at seven MPH. I think this is helping my speed. I need to

I did a tempo run this evening. First I warmed up for ten minutes, then I ran for 20 minutes with a slightly increasing pace, the first ten minutes was at 6.1 MPH, the next five minutes was at 6.3 MPH and the last five minutes as at 6.5 MPH. Between each increase I paused

Tonight was interval night at the gym. I ran for forty minutes and did eight intervals. I started at six MPH and worked up to seven MPH, I did two intervals at seven MPH than started working back down to six MPH. Last night, after I got home, I was exhausted. I think it is

Long easy run at the gym this evening. Ran for 1 hour at 4.5 MPH and covered a little less than 4.5 miles. It took several treadmills before I found one that I liked — the audio seems bad on the North side the building. I watched CNN getting ready for the Texas debate with