Exercise

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

I had a tempo run at the gym this evening. I ran for 10 minutes to warm up then ran at 6.1 MPH for 10 minutes, then I ran two intervals, the first at 6.5 MPH and the second at 7.0 MPH. I felt very good about the run this evening, I felt I could

Tonight I run two and a half miles on the treadmill at the North Pure Gym. It was my first time at the north facility. The facility was really nice, much larger and the was not as crowded. I jogged on the treadmill for forty five minutes increasing the speed for one minute than decreasing

Tonight I ran intervals on the treadmill at the gym. It went pretty well, my fastest interval was close to 8 MPH, I’m not sure how long I held that speed, I had worked up to that speed by increasing the speed every 30 seconds by about a half mile per hour. I probably held

I ran for thirty minutes on the treadmill at the gym tonight, the pace was set at six MPH or ten minutes per mile. I was able to hold this pace most of the way, I slowed down three times and the last seven minutes I ran at 5.5 MPH. Unfortunately, my nose started bleeding,

I went to the gym again tonight and worked out on the treadmill. I ran an abbreviated set of intervals which consisted of two intervals, where each interval was at 6.5 MPH and lasted for 4 minutes. This is quite a bit less than I was doing a couple of weeks ago. My goal over

Today I ran some sprints. It consisted of 8 repeats of running for one eighth of a mile at a pace of 7 minutes per mile then walking while I waited for the heart rate to drop below 105 beats per minute. I had trouble reaching the speed and I was about dead by the

I did an interval run this morning, and what a difference twenty-four hours make! It clouded over last night and the temperature was 48 degrees this morning. I was sweltering in my three layers of clothes when I was running. I ran at the track over at Webb Middle School. There was one other runner

Ran an easy 2.25 miles today. Went over to the track at Webb Middle School and did a mile (4 laps). It’s the first time this year that I have been over there. There were two other people working out. I got there shortly after 7 AM. I need to go more often, it would

Today I did a tempo run, I tried to keep my pace below a 10 minute per mile for 2 miles. I felt that I did pretty well, each time I checked my watch I was doing a little under 10 minutes. There was a few places that gave me trouble, the final uphill run

I ran 3 miles this morning. What a change several days make; the temperature was about 70 degrees when I started, and the humidity was about 100%, compared to several days ago when the temperature was below freezing. The Garmin record is here. Later: I need to get moving a little earlier or moving a

Ran 4.08 miles at a 11:30 pace with Daniel, his wife Andrea, his mother-in-law Marilla and Zoe their 10 year old dog. The temperature was not a problem at a little above 60 degrees, however the wind was noticeable. The motionbased report is here.

It was cold again this morning, I dressed more warmly than on Wednesday’s run. I wore the same pants, gloves and headpiece. Over the mid-section, I wore a light sweat-wicking tee shirt, my blue warm up clothes, and my reflective windbreaker. For the most part, I was warmer, except I was sweating, so when I

It was cold this morning, the TV said it was in the mid 20s, thus the short run. I also did not get the GPS going until about 1/8 the way through the run so it registers a little short. It should say about 1 mile. Heres the link to the run. I wore my

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

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

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;

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

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

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