High-Octane

Got to Las Veas today so I had to run on the TM to do my repeats. I was really not that pleased with the workout as you cn ee from my notes below... couple of bad runs...too many other things of priority right no...not sure but hopefully it will get better in a week or so.

First competition today...Just See and React!

12/5/2011
Mile	Time	HR	HR %
2.25	Warm-Up
1600m	6:00:00
2 Min	Recovery
1600m	6:10:00
2 Min	Recovery
1600m	6:15:00
1,75	Recovery
2	Cool-Down
Total	18:25:00	0	0%
Avg. Pace	6:08:20	Total Miles		7
Treadmill in Las Vegas
Indooor
Target: Repeats - 10-20 Min. Warm-up, Stretch, 3 x 1600 @ 6:12 pace, 1 Min. Recovery between each, 10 Min. Cool-down. Wasn't really happy with this run. Recoveries were too long and I had to hold the side rails for part of the second two repeats making

Acts 20:27

For I have not hesitated to proclaim the whole will of God.

Squeezed in 1 hour on the stationary bike today. First day of roping competition and things didn't go great. The competition format is fairly complicated and I won't go into too much detail. We (my team partner and I) had a penality on the first steer. Our 3 times for the day were 9.3(+5), 8.7 and 7.3. Without the penality we would have been setting 5th overall (375 entries) and in the drivers seat for a big win. But because of the penality, we are now pushed back to the consolation portion of the roping where the drop our first time and we finsih out the roping with 2 more steers. We should be setting pretty good in the consolation with our two fastest times but now we have to rope 2 more with no penalities to get into the money instead of only one. Actually without the first penality we would have already been in the money. Oh well...this is more like playing 4 round of golf against 375 other very good golfers. It makes for some really tough competition. since this is the national finals, there are many of the best ropers from all over the US and Canada here. The roping and competition is great but LV stinks!

Well first a report on the roping competition: Things didn't go any better today. We had another penality on our fourth steer to put us out of the competition. Again without the penality we would have been very close to the top at 2nd....Oh well this type of competition is very hard to compete in. I have another division to compete in tomorrow...hopefully we'll have a little luck this time.

Running was again on the TM at the hotel. Today was a tempo run with two miles warm-up, 3 miles at 6:45 and then a cool-down mile. I think I've lost a little of my confidence since I had to decrease the incline after mile 1 thinking I wasn't going to be able to finish this run. At the end I was able to pick up the pace a little to finish the last mile a little faster and help my confidene a little.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for my long run later this week if I'm still here in LV...may have to run 18-20 on the TM...oh no!!!

 

12/7/2011
Mile	Time	HR	HR %	Max HR
2	Warm-up
1	6:44:00	161	85%
2	6:44:00	165	88%
3	6:34:00	168	90%
1	Cool-down
Warm-up & Cool-down Miles were 8:30 to 9:00
Tempo Miles	20:02:00	165	88%
Pace	6:40:40
Teadmill in Las Vegas
Indoor
Target: Tempo Run - 2 Warm-Up, 3 Miles @ 6:45 pace, 1 Miles Cool-Down Set the treadmill at 1% incline for the first mile but had to reduce it to 0% after that to complete the run. Streat

Psalms 139: 14

I will praie You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Well, I wouldn't say things went great at the World Series Team Roping Finals for me today but I did have a little luck. Even with 2 penalties I made it back to the main finals. With this qualification I got into the money and will rope on Sturday for the bigger prize money. I won't have a chance for the 3 diget payout but could win a few K more with a good final run. Tomorrow is an off day so I think I'll go out for a 20 mile run to get my mind off roping.

Today I went to the gym and clocked 20 miles on the stationary bike.

Yeah...I completed the 20 mile RLRF workout on pace. It was on the TM but I'm hoping I don't get called on it and disqualified :-) This is my third attempt to complete this workout on pace. It's funny because three weeks ago I skipped three weeks out and ran 18.5 @ 8:03 (on the road). I guess I've had a mental block on the 20 miler. I'm still a little concerned because this 20 miler on the TM seemed harder than the 18.5 on the road, even though the 18.5 miler was a lot faster than todays run.

I drank 40 oz of Gatorade and 32 oz of water throughout this run. This seemed to be about right on the fluids. I should probably eat some goo next time on this long a run.

On the roping note, today is an off day for me. Tomorrow will be the Finals where I rope one more steer for the bigger prize money. I've won my entires and expenses back already, now's the time for profit!

 

12/9/2011
Mile	Time	HR	HR %
1	8:26:00	143	73%
2	8:26:00	144	74%
3	8:26:00	147	76%
4	8:26:00	146	75%
5	8:26:00	148	76%
6	8:26:00	150	78%
7	8:26:00	151	78%
8	8:26:00	150	78%
9	8:26:00	150	78%
10	8:26:00	151	78%
11	8:26:00	152	79%
12	8:26:00	154	80%
13	8:26:00	151	78%
14	8:26:00	153	80%
15	8:26:00	154	80%
16	8:26:00	155	81%
17	8:26:00	156	82%
18	8:15:00	159	84%
19	8:06:00	159	84%
20	7:20:00	163	87%
21	Cool-Down
Total	167:03:00	152	79%
Pace	8:21:09
Where Run
68 Degrees
Target: Long Run - 20 Miles @ 8:26 The treadmill would only run for 30 minutes and then stop so I reset it every 3 miles but only took about 10-15 seconds to do that.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven"

Ok...Here's the details of the roping finals:

My partner and I went into the final round in 43rd place out of 44 total teams taken to the Finals. Because of two penalities (two +5's) in the second and third round I did not think we would even get into the finals. Competition at this level usually does not allow that to happen. Luckly we were three blistering times on the three steers and even with the +10 seconds added we slipped into the cut. Overall there were 375 teams entered into this event with the first place payout at $200,000.

As we were at the back of the pack, we were the second team to compete. I told my partner to be ready and that i was not going to let up and play it safe. I believed that if we made a good run on the last steer we could move to about 15-20 and double the money we had already won.

The steer we drew to rope was not one of the best ones. He was bigger and faster than most of the other steers and also had smaller horns (which is not typically good). The good thing was my horse has been really working (running hard) all week. We pinged the barrier and were a blistering 7.4 on this steer. I don't know what happened after that but lots of teams just kept messing up, missing, breaking barriers, roping legs...all sorts of bad things. I guess we kinda scared them with the fast time and they were all gunning for it. When the dust settled we had won the fastest time in the short round (finals) and ended up moving from 43rd place to 6th place. This is unheard of in this type of event at this level of cometition.

Total winnings for the day: $ 27,500

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