Wednesday Aug 22, 2007
I'm a member of a summer
cycling group with Rogue Training
Systems. We started in mid July and will finish in mid
October. The goal is to work up to riding a century (100
miles).
On Sunday August 19, we rode from Bee Cave to north Austin to
downtown Austin and back, 40 miles. I hadn't ridden 40 miles in
a single day in at least a couple of decades. I uploaded my
Forerunner 305 (GPS)
data to MotionBased. While my
motion time was 2:58, for a 13.5 mile per hour average, I also
had 31 minutes of rest time.
This coming Sunday, we'll be riding the Krause Kruse out of
Krause Springs for 4 to 4.5 hours. At 13.5 miles per hour, I
can probably just do the 60 mile loop. But there will be an
opportunity to bail out and do a 43 mile loop instead, if things
aren't going well. So I'll be playing this one "by ear" as they
say.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2007
I haven't blogged about running for a while, maybe because it's
just taken up a routine part of my life, not an all consuming
passion like it is when I'm doing marathon training. I'm just
training for a half marathon this winter, and I have to say I
like running fewer miles and not devoting so much time,
particularly on weekends, to running.
Since I decided not to do a marathon this winter, that knocked
me out of even starting the Austin Distance
Challenge right away. So I've only felt compelled to run
one race, the IBM
Uptown Classic 10K back in early October. I contemplated
others, but due to conflicts or just not being interested, I
haven't done any.
I was originally training for the AT&T Austin
Half Marathon on February 18, 2007, but due to yet another
Cub Scout conflict, I'm going to run the 3M Half Marathon on
January 28. I wanted to run both, but I made a vow not to let
my running get in the way of Cub Scouts or family activities
this winter, and have done well with it.
Finally, I was happy to see fellow runner and Sun blogger Scott has taken up
running again. Keep it up Scott!
