doggie

5 miles in the 'hood with doggie this morning.

rain

Me and Misty got in 6 miles at Townlake this morning.  Thankfully we dodged the rain!!

acid

It's looking like I'm a go for the Tinajas 13.1 in 2 weeks.  I had a great 10+ miler at Barton Creek Saturday morning.  10.23 miles in 2:31 for 14:48 mpm.  I did Rudy's loop twice finishing coming up the POS trail so I got in lots of elevation.  That should serve me well at Tinajas.

Yesterday I made the mistake of taking doggie to Townlake to do the Mopac/ Congress loop.  She was so freaked out the entire time.  She easily expended enough energy for us to have gone 10 miles from being frantic and running away from people, sounds and things.  I never heard of a dog being so freaked out about seemingly regular sights and sounds.  It's like she's taken some acid and is on total sensory overload.  I've vowed now that that's the last time I'll try that.  From now on we'll stick to the woods.  She's fine there.  I had thought about doing Kens loop but the last time I took her out I rolled and ankle pretty good so I was stressing on that a bit.  I'll just have to be more careful when I'm with her in the woods.

getting there

6 miles this morning.  1 easy warm up run/walk mile with doggie and then a harder 5 in the 'hood.  Ran 53:44, 10:42 per mile.  I feel like I'm getting there!!

400 miles

Me and Misty and doggie got in a 4 miler at Townlake Saturday and me a doggie got in a 5 miler yesterday morning in the 'hood.  Saturday's miles got doggie over the 400 mile mark since we got her!!

hurts so good

The nasty weather kept me inside this morning.  I worked the foam roller instead!!  It's hurts so good....

14:01

I had a good run at Forest Ridge yesterday.  For a change I left the voice volume on my Runkeeper app on.  It really worked out good with the voice giving me updates on elapsed time, minutes per mile and distance traveled.  As I got going I began to focus on listening to the minutes per mile.  After a few miles I set a goal of trying to stay under 14 minutes per mile for the whole 7 miles.   It really made me push myself harder than I normally would have and ended up having really good time for as few miles as I've run this year.  The distance seemed a bit short at 7.18 but I was really happy with my finish time of 1:40:33.  The funny part is that ended up at a 14:01 pace!  That's okay, it'll be a great goal in the future to get that down.  The really cool part is that I've been running out there for 18 years and my benchmark for that course is typically in the 1:30-1:35 range so I was very happy with yesterday's time.  It also tells me if I can continue this positive progress I should be good to at least limp through the Tinajas 13.1 in 4 weeks!!  One more positive note is that my right foot/ plantar seems to be in pretty good shape too!!  It's not perfect but I seem to be managing it okay.....

starting

Me and doggie got in a good 4 miler in the 'hood this morning.  We were actually pretty slow but I did the 3rd mile in 10:30!!  Woohoo!!  After being sick for over a week I almost feel like I'm starting back from scratch but at least I'm STARTING!!