Terry's Running Blog

Morning run, Temp 60'

Trying to get my legs fully recovered by running easy today.

Time 49:09,  Mile avg. - 8:12

Morning run, Temp 66'

It must be getting close to the WBR because the temps are heating up.  I decided to do a 3 mile tempo run and not push it all out.  I avg. 6:13 miles or 14 seconds slower than last time I did the tempo run.  I assume a tempo run is ok 3 days before a race.  Any more runs will be very easy pace until the race.

I went on the WBR web site and viewed the winner of the 2007 WBR video contest.  It gets you excited to run and it had my neighbor in it that is a great runner. 

Distance 7 miles, Time 46:45,  Mile avg. - 6:41

Noon run, sunny, windy, temp 90'

Decided I needed to get use to the heat for the WBR.  Ran with Tyler.  The sun and heat definately have an effect.

Distance 5.2 miles,  Time 43:05,  Mile avg. - 8:17

Noon run, sunny, temp. 85'

One final attempt to get use to the heat for Ragnar.  Easy run with a few speed ups to get the legs primed.  No running tomorrow for me just dreams of speed and road kill.

Time 41:35,  Mile avg .- 7:46

The Wastach Back Relay was fun in an unusual way as usual.  I'm glad to be on team "2 Slow 2 Win 2 Dumb 2 Quit" with great people and good runners.  We took 35th overall and 2nd in the submasters men division with a 24:21:15.

I ran in van#1 in the order of 1) me, 2) Kevin, 3) Will, 4) Scott, 5) Tom, & 6) Paul.  We started at 3PM.  I was hoping to win my leg as I started the run but when I heard Ron Greenwood was also running that leg I figured 2nd place was probably my new goal.  It was fun riding up to the Logan with the team and around the race and watching all the runners.  Being the 1st runner has its advantages.  I got to start the race with about 20 other runners which makes it feel like a normal race.  I was feeling gooood.  I started off fast and was in the led until we turned a few blocks down the road so I at least impressed the people watching the start.  Very soon after turning the corner Ron slowly passed me.  My 1st mile was in 5:55 and my average for the 5.15 miles which had a net elevation gain of 65 feet was a 6:15.  I was happy because Ron only beat me by about 45 seconds and I got 2nd.

My 2nd leg started at about 11pm.  It was 1 mile to the top of Trappers loop summit and then 7.5 miles steep down.  My miles were as follows: 7:59, 5:30, 5:34, 6:02, 6:21, 5:43, 5:26, 5:39, last .49 was in 5:57 avg.  The total was a 6:02 avg.  I had to slow done on mile 5 because my left quad started twitching like it didn't like the down hill abuse and was thinking of cramping up or I probably would have gone sub 6 avg for the leg.  Net elevation loss was 1400 feet.

See next days blog report of 3rd leg that starts at 7AM 

I started Leg 25 at about 7AM.  It started at the south end of Rockport Reservoir and gradually climbed up to Oakley city with about a 400 foot net elevation gain.  It was about 43 degrees but the sun had come up so overall great running temperature compared to yesterdays 1st leg of about 85 degrees.  My body wasn't happy that I was doing yet another fast run with little sleep.  Right of the bat my side started aching but not bad and after about a mile I started to feel a little better and I started to speed up.  The team gave me some water after about 2 miles and I was thirsty for it, even in the cooler temperatures.  Probably wasn't rehydrated quite enough.  At about mile 3 my left quad decided it wanted to cramp up and I actually walked for about 30 seconds.  I HATE walking in a race.  Anyway I started up slowly and kept increasing the pace and my body let me do it.  From then on I was able to run good.  I picked off 31 people on that leg. 

It felt really good to be done.  I drank alot of fluid and was feeling happy.  Kevin ran after me  on leg 26 and handed off to Will.  After Kevin recovered, who took some great pictures during the race, we got back in the suburban and headed down the road.  After about a mile we saw Will walking.  It was then that I guessed I might get another opportunity to run.  We talked to Will and his knee was bothering him.  I took off my sweats and he gave me the batton and off I was again.  This was a fun leg for me because there was no expectations of how I was suppose to do.  I took the 1st mile easy with a 7:17 trying to get my body adjusted to the idea of running again then I picked up the pace as the course started to go down hill.  the next miles were 6:45, 6:31, 6:43, and .24 miles in 6:30 avg.  with an overall average of 6:48.

Everyone on the team had a fun time and many stories to tell.  Tom ran great but wasn't pleased with his results, Kevin was running after breaking his leg in several places a year ago,  Paul and Scott ran tough.  Kerry ran the second to last leg of about 6.9 miles in the heat and looked wasted at the finish but happy.  Unforturnatley Steve found out his dad had a stroke right after the race.  Hope everything is ok.  Anyways lots of stories and memories.