Bob's blog

Finally getting over the illness that struck me last weekend. My stomach felt stable enough to try a short easy run so I went from work and looped around 11th ave to memory grove and back.

My legs were dying to run but my gut barely held. Got home in 1 piece.

Dillon woke me up at 1:00 AM. I have the problem of not being able to fall back asleep after becomming conscious enough to feed my son; thus I had to operate on 3:00 sleep today. Any advice from the expert parents out there on getting back to sleep?

Ran a tempo workout with Luke today. Started out at JM  and ran north on 11th east to 11th ave. Started tempo on 11th ave heading east, turned at Virginia and ran back to memory grove. Ended tempo on 4th ave up from memory grove. 19:51 for the 4 mile tempo for me, roughly 19:40 for Luke. He looks good. Cooled down 4th ave back to JM. 

Ran my extended city loop yesterday. Took the first few miles easy and ran progressively when my legs felt like it. At mile 10 I finally fely ready to push the pace a bit and ran 2 miles at MP. Ended at 1:32.

Legs took longer than I anticipated to warm up (4 mi). Felt fluid after they did.

I think I am the only guy not tapering for the 10k tomorrow. It is hard to read all the other blogs and still feel competitive in a race like that. I need to remember that tomorrow is not the goal, just a stepping stone towards a good marathon performance. 

Ran 8 easy miles on treadmill. Tried to listen to my ipod but my earphones kept falling out of my ears. Does anybody know of a good pair of wrap around earphones?

Ran the striders 10k today. My goal was to treat the race as more of a speed workout. THus cruise the first 5k and run progressively the rest of the way. I started the day by warming up on the 4 miles of the course I had not seen. The hills were not as bad as I had previously thought. Sorry Paul, not dissing your GIS skills.

So I started out as slowly as the leaders would let me, which still felt fast. I really tried not to push the pace up the climbs as I am not in clinbing shape yet. At the top of the last climb I knew it was time to start racing so I gradually started running faster and faster. At this point there were only 4 in contention; Paul, Corbin, Joe and me.

At mile 4.5 I decided I had plenty left to go for a win so I pushed the pace and nobody responded. At that point I just concentrated on quick turnover and high knees. I could hear Corbin catching me but I don't currently have the high end speed to do anything about it so I stuck with my game plan. It worked this time...as Tom Petty wrote: every body gets lucky sometimes.

Cooled down 3 miles.