Turkey Trot

10 km. Houston Uptown Park. Race could have been better. But it was a morning run that is tough to wake up for and do like an afternoon/evening run. Less than 6 hours sleep overnight (not my fault :-) ). Also training really suffering from being sick over weekend. Body felt tired after first mile instead of ready to race. But after slow start with traffic (all the non-timed 5kers started with timed 10k and no-one respected the start pens), skipped water stops as felt hydrated OK despite heat, got some solid kms together. And geared up for a faster finish. Have to keep telling myself with so many runners this is not my specialty. Good to try and recognize local runners at the turnaround. Results: 669/2208.

Results by RunFAR; www.run-far.com

Div

Age

Sex

ChipTime

ClockTime

Overall

SexPl

DivPl

Total Pace

M 40-44

42

M

52:54

54:33

669

490

67

669

Iain Wallace

Houston TX

2047

42

67 M 40-44

52:53.6

54:32.7

1:39.1

8:31/M

Kenyan Way

9 miles. Memorial Park, progressive run. Slow start. Huring abit on second lap. Tried 3rd and got beter. Got better after hydrating after first lap. About 68F. Enjoyed last lap as not as busy. Good to get a descent run under belt.

Note: Garmin have just added a Player mode which has enhanced maps and graphs. Well done!

Coldplay

Coldplay were in town and I really enjoyed their show. Had seats close to the stage. Sound and stageshow were great. A class act.

Kenyan Way

7.4 miles. Including 10 x 2 hill loops to top path in 20 min session. No break btwn warm-up and hill session. Legs got tired.

Terry Hershey Trail

8.3 miles. Terry Hershey Trail from LFT. Solid run. Cool fall afternoon. All issues with Rocky Raccoon race resolved. Used iPod.

Recovery Run

6.2 Miles. Memorial Park. Nice and slow recovery run. Left knee slight overuse pain and should be OK. Back pain diminishing alot. Listening to iPod. Coolish. 66F.

No Kenyan Way

No training as raining and recovering from race. Weirdly after OK recovery day Sunday hurt back first thing this morning. Had a vacation day at home.

Rocky Raccoon Trail Race

15.5 miles. 2:19:58, 49th out of 256. Huntsville, SP. Schedule worked out to dedicate weekend to running in this and recover. Kinda behind on distance training to do this effectively. Turned out OK. 75th at first turn. Interesting to see where ended. Managed to keep pace going and pass some folks who started too hard or were hurt on numerous tree roots and was fairly strong through to end. Beautiful sunny fall weather and scenery. Cold at start - but no problems 1/2 mile in.

Run to the pub!

2.5 miles. Run to Shakespeare Pub for some great post election beers. Friendly bar.

Election Day

In tune with Obama's policies I'm expecting those hard working elite fast runners with many training miles per week to be redistributed to me. I find it interesting that 3.5% of electorate that voted made the difference and less than 1% more voted between 2004 and 2008 - especially when consider the 1 million new voters minted this year alone.

Kenyan Way

6.7 miles. First run in dark with DST change. Sean lights up hills with truck. They started early and I'd no idea what was going on. Some random rep session every 3 minutes instead of usual 2x10 minute session.

Birthday Run

8.5 miles. Terry Hershey Trail from LFT. Felt OK at beginning. Some great tunes on iPod to keep things going. A bit tired on way back. Little dehydrated and recovering from weekend lack of sleep. Great to be out. Sunny. Cool.