nice n easy II

6 more easy miles this morning at Barton Creek.   Plenty of walking too.  It seems the adjustments I made to my right insert are working.  Very little discomfort in my right foot the last 2 days!!!  I think I'm ready to start building my mileage toward the Cactus Rose 100 mile on Oct 27.  I'll be shooting for 115-120 miles for May and then I'll think I'll need to average at least 140 miles per month for June, July, Aug and Sept to give myself a chance at finishing.  Cactus Rose has only a 50% finisher rate by the way. I may as well go ahead and throw out my bigger overall goal of finishing the Tejas 300.  That includes the Bandera 100k the first Saturday in Jan and the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile the first Saturday in Feb along with Cactus Rose.  It's a pretty daunting challenge but for now Cactus Rose will be the focus.

April 80 miles

nice n easy

Nice and easy 12 miles this morning.  Sam V and I started at 630 and did the old Wed night run and then met Misty at 360 and ran walked back to the HOL.  My time was 3:25.  I think it was a good start back.  My knee was a bit achy but the adjustment I made for my neuroma seems to have worked very well......no flare up!!!  I take it!!!

hot

Marc G and I got in a hot 5 miler at Kens and the Mountain Goat trail yesterday afternoon.  Wow, does that run in the heat kick your ass!!   I was pretty sure my heart was going to come right out of my chest!!!  It took us 1:37 to navigate the 5+ mile course.  We did a lot of walking and recovering.  It was a new trail for Marc and he enjoyed it.

I think I feel a little zippier ( is that a word ) when I'm running lately.  I'm hoping the clean eating is beginning to pay off.  More good news.  190.5 this morning.  I'm thinking that 183lbs really can be a reality!!

Adjustments

Ran 5 miles at LBL/ Zilker/ Barton Creek Greenbelt in 56 min yesterday afternoon.  I started at the mopac footbridge, ran the first mile and continued on the RR tracks thru Zilker to the BCG trailhead and turned around at the 1 mile point.  Good run, everything felt pretty good besides the neuroma.  It was debilitating but it did flare up.  I think I can make some adjustments to get it it fixed..

Houston

Got in 4 miles at a park near my sister in laws house in Houston Saturday morning.

Dark

Good 7 miles this morning at LBL.  I did the first 6 in 1hr exactly.  I definitely feel like I'm starting to get back in shape now.  My knee seemed better but my neuroma acted up a bit in a weird way, not as bad as it could be though.  We're 4 days away from a New Moon so it was pretty dark on the trail this morning.

Saturday

Saturday Misty and I both got in some good trail time.  We started at Spyglass and and both did our own thing.  I got in 10 and Misty did 5.  It was Misty's first time traversing the trails solo and there were a couple of hiccups but she made it okay.  My 2nd run in the NB 1110's went okay.  My neuroma did act up some starting around 7 miles but never got bad.  I'm hoping it was just due to wet shoes.  Sometimes that'll do it.  My time was 2:23, a little slower than I had hoped for but all in all a good run.

193.8

Got in a good 6.5 miles at St Eds yesterday afternoon!!  I'm really enjoying exploring the inner trails there after so many years of doing the same ones over and over again.  The 2 mile flat out and back is a perfect warm up before getting up into the hills too!!

I believe this was just my 4th run after my layoff but I think I felt strangely energized at times yesterday.  I wonder if the "cleaner" eating really is making a difference?  I weighed 193.8 this morning down from 202.7.  Pretty fancy scale weighing my fat ass in tenths!!!

The maiden voyage for NB 1110's went pretty well.  It's not a great shoe, the sides aren't very stable, my feet move around in them quite a bit but, the important thing is that my neuroma did NOT flare up.  That is hugely positive!!

35 minutes of yoga this morning!!

LBL

7 miles at LBL this morning!!  I did it in 1:18.  I'm pretty happy with that considering I purposely held back a bit.  Bootcamp tomorrow morning is gonna have me sore as hell from a long layoff.  The Thursday morning run I have planned with Shan and Mark is going to be painful but it'll be good to run with my old pals.

The RESET I posted on Mar 26 was mine and Misty's first day of no meat.  We are attempting to go vegan.  Our good neighbor Mark has been all natural for a month now and has lost 25lbs.  What he's most excited about though is how much better he feels and how unbelievably high is energy level is.  His life has completely changed in a matter of weeks.  He also reports that his otherwise dormant libido has returned.  Misty and I have talked about doing this in the past but after literally seeing the overnight change in Mark that made up our minds.

So, I started out that Monday morning at exactly 200lbs.  We ate well all week but then pounded some beer Saturday and ate a bunch of veggie pizza and the next Monday I was up to 202.7.  That is my high of alltime.  Talk about a backslide!!  I got back on track though and was down to 195.1 yesterday morning.  After eating a bunch of peanuts and snacking on some chips and hot sauce (yesterday evening we looked at the ingredients of Julio's, our favorite salsa, and the last ingredient was the dreaded MSG) my weight was 197.1 this morning.   It's all good though.  I know it's going to be a bit of a roller coaster with the weight.  I do feel like I'm in position to dip below 195 by Friday morning.  That's the goal......we see!!!!

Life

Misty and I did the Hell's Hills 10k yesterday.  The original plan was for me to do the 50k and Misty to do the 25k.  Well, life got in the way again.  During my 3 week hiatus from running I decided to move down to the 25k and do it with Misty.  I think she was a little nervous about being out on the trail by herself so she was pleased with my move to the 25k.  Well, life continued to get in the way.  Misty's back flared up really badly during the week to the point where she got a steroid shot Thursday morning.  At that point I was pushing really hard for us to NOT do anything at HH's.   Misty's stubborn self wasn't having it though.  We did the 10k and she killed it.  Due to her work schedule she has been inconsistent with bootcamp and hasn't done much walking either, but she rocked it in 1:34!!!  I couldn't believe it.  I was really astounded with how much running she did. I told her several times that she would be hell on wheels if she even got in a little training!!

This morning I joined in the club run.  Chris H hosted it because David J was recuperating from a successful 50k at HH's yesterday.  I swear it seemed like that course is 6 miles.  I had some fun and met some new peeps too!!

I'm back...

I got in 5 miles at St Ed's this afternoon.  It was my first run in 3 weeks.  I took the time off to give my tingly knee a rest.  Last week I decided to go ahead and set a Dr appt and after a thorough exam amd x-rays the news was positive.  The Doc said my knee is good to go, no problema's!!  It sure was nice being out in the woods exerting myself, exploring new trails.  The knee was still weird. though.  The Dr said it could be some sort of nerve thing going on and maybe I should see a neurologist at some point.  Glad to be back!!