Today was a milestone run. I’ve run at Memorial Park now for almost a year. Its a little less than 3 miles around the park. Ever sense we moved to Houston in 2008, I’ve walked at the park and envied all the runners that could run the loop instead of walk it. TODAY I RAN COMPLETELY AROUND THE LOOP WITHOUT…
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29 Oct 2016 – Sprints
Today we ran 200m sprints at our Saturday session. And Coach Joan really pushed me. I decided to use my watch and measure the distances and pace to see what I can do. Here are my stats from today: Pace Speed Sprint 1 10:24 5.77 Sprint 2 11:04 5.42 Sprint 3 10:13 5.87 Sprint 4 10:46 5.56 Sprint…
17 August 2016: Definitely still summer out there
Summers in Houston are not for the faint-hearted. We had a week of 100 degree days, 90+ percent humidity and generally miserably hot weather. Now the weather has turned to rain, rain and more rain. How is one supposed to keep running in this type of weather? The good news is that I’ve made it to the last 2 weeks…
6/4/2016: Heights 5k Race recap
Rain, rain go away….come again another day! It was wet and rainy on Saturday morning for the Heights “Run the BLVD” 5k! I arrived around 6:45am just in time to be in the photos taken by Coach Joan of our 9 to 5 group. Even with the bad weather, there was 20 of us! Much of the core group and…
28 May 2016: 4 miles today which makes 10 for the week!
This week I “wogged” 10 miles in high temperatures and high humidity. What is a “wog” you might ask? It’s a combination of walking and jogging. I laughed when I saw it in someone else’s blog and I think it’s very descriptive for slow runners like myself. But back to the heat and humidity that I experienced this week. I’ve…
21 May 2016: I’m baaaccckkk….
I went to my Luke’s Locker training class today and I ran for the first time since the Tinkerbell 10k. It was hot, the hills were tough, I sweated gallons — but I did it! We did an interesting workout called the “cloverleaf”. We walked/jogged over to where Waugh crosses over Memorial, by way of Buffalo Bayou. Waiting on the…
30 April 2016: One week to go
One week from today I will be running the Tinker Bell 10k with my sister. Hopefully she will be surprised the day before when we go pick up our race packets and she realizes that I’m running with her! And hopefully I’ll be able to keep it a secret until then. Coach Joan cancelled today’s 9 to 5 running clinic…
24 April 2016: Longest training run EVER!
Today was my final long training run before the Tinker Bell 10k. My training schedule said that I needed to run/walk 6.5 miles. I was so dreading this run that I even reached out to my running clinic buddies to see if anyone wanted to go with me. Coach Toni said she could go – but only in the evening…
16 April 2016: Speed drills
Today was a really difficult workout at the running clinic. It is the second week of the new 9 to 5 class, and Coach Joan pushed us hard. We started out jogging over to the West Gray Recreation Center park. I ran with Kathryn and we ran (well…jogged) the entire way over to the park without stopping! It was the…
09 Apr 2016: Second round of 9 to 5 training
Today I started my second round of 9 to 5 training at Luke’s Locker with Coach Joan. It was fun being an “oldie” instead of a “newbie” and it was fun to see that some of the girls from the previous round are still enrolled. This time Coach Joan is adding a 10k training schedule for the final race on…