New Years day

After talking to Mike aka totally spoked, at Heathers NY eve party got the bug to do the rocky racoon 50mile endurance trail run. It was a pretty good party I guess,the tarp naked midnight run was funny in a stick a needle in your eye,I don't know these guys kind of way. So on with the trail run,I signed up and didnt tell anybody about it. I think Darla knew what I was doing she would find me on there web site all the time. She like whats wrong with you,all you guys that have this problem you know what I mean. So I think this is the race for me as they run a hundred mile race at the same time and they give the 50 milers the same time to finish 24 hrs. I do the math and feel if I can make it trough the training it's a slam dunk. I start doing the miles,most on the old tread mill. Doing the long runs on the treadmill is easy for me as I have all the things I need close,restroom,fluids,food. And I know from all that time on the website that they have three aid stations that you hit 6 times on a 16.7 mile loop that you do three times so they would have every thing that I needed and wouldnot have to carry everthing. As my Long runs started getting 7,8,9,up to 13.5 hours long The tread was it for me. It just drove Darla crazy,spent the whole day on the tread mill,watched football games you name it,but I finished everyone and each one made me know that I could do it. Did some back to back long days 30miles sat. and 18 to 22 on sunday. Came race day it was cold but clear,no rain or wind. want bore you with the blow by blow but I had a plan kept to it and finished and that was my goal to just finish. Was hoping to finish before dark but still needed 3/4 of a lap when the lights went out so there no way I was running those trails at night. So I walke it in and that put alot of time on my run but thats ok as you don't know how tore up you are until it to late. After the race It came to me how cold it was and by the time I drove to motel I was pretty stoved up.

dallas white rock marathon

in my last post I went from el sorcho to a week before my first 50miler that was in Feb.2010. So it seems that I jumped over the white rock marathon, it was a good race for me and was fun. Just ran as I felt and didnt worry about anything,ran into the normal bad spot out on the lake but it went away fast. Was able to pick it up from 20 on into the finish. Could have ran it much faster but thats the way it works, that was my 6th WR marathon did my first in 1980 and even tho it was a 5hr run it felt great.

So I'm going to get cought up on the old blog. Last we blogged I had just did 25k of the 50k el sorcho well I moved on from that to training for my second 70.3 ironman in austin,tx. My training went well and felt very strong, got a new sleeveless wetsuit and was pumped up and ready to go. But then again no. Came down with flu a couple of days before event. Felt like hammered crap but went ahead and started the event. The swim was just about the best feeling swim I have ever had, the bike was crap, hills,cracks,bumps,gravel,plus all the things they said you were not to do was done all the way in aces. Did not see anybody in the time out cage,but did see some crash victims. Anyway got through it and went on to the run. It was a death march for me but I finished and cut 10 min. of my time. When I got back to town went to Dr. got some meds and after a month of them the head and chest infections got better. Ran the Turkey trot 10k, and the jingle bell 5k, chest still got hot but was better. All the Hart rate training makes for a slow runner but a strong one. On to White rock marathon,got there late had to pee so was the very last one at the very back of all the runners/walkers ect... I guess that was good because I just ran and had a good time finished strong felt good. So I finished 2009 with two marathons,25k,10k,5k,two 70.3 half ironman tris,one sprint tri,3 or4 tshirt rides at +100k so not a bad year.

So here I am a week away from running a 50mile trail run, got the Idea new years eve,so Its now jan. 29 so I have had to cram to get ready so we will see. Thats it for now, more to come.

Wow have not posted up in a while. Well have done the El Sorcho and wussed out again just did the 25k don't know what it was about it was cool,just didn't have it. Done a couple of t shirt rides but have tryed to get with the program on the 70.3 ironman in oct. am about to load up for the fwrunners club 15k, will try to post up more later.

Did the Cleburne Iron Horse sprint tri. yesterday. Wanted to go under 1:20, did 1:27 and thats ok. Swim got messed up about halfway through ran into lady breathstroking across the lanes,thats a first for me in a pool swim,so I did the Tbone crash into her,had to push her off and that when acouple of guys tried to swim over me this ended up in a bit off smackdown kinda thing. This took about 25 yards to right. T1 was ok but you can allways do better. Bike went well but could have left a little more on the road. T2 ran wrong way so there is some seconds there. Run was hot but felt like I was running slower than really did. Over all every thing went well and I can see that I could have done much worse. Felt pretty good at the end. Did'nt puke thats a plus but shows it wasn't a all out deal. Am alittle sore this am so I might have went alittle harder than I thought. So whats next?

Just got back from Texmex pigout. Been getting up and swimming,riding the mountain bike to work and back and getting in 3miles running at lunch. Lastweek end it rained on sat. so I road trainer 6hrs and ran at Benbrook about 4hrs sun.am. Did the burleson ride today 100k felt real good and tomorrow will run for 2hrs. Got a sprint next weekend in Cleburne,don't know how it will go have not done a sprint this year but should be fun. My long run the next weekend should be 5 or 6 hours.

Well it's time to get it in gear. Been kinda drifting taking it easy. Think I have got a plan now for the rest of year. Will start building my run for El Scorcho,did 14 miles at Benbrook yesterday did 12min.run 1min.walk @ HR so it was very slow 2:50 but it felt real good being out and running. I think I will do my tri training Tue-Thurs. swim 2000,bike about 1-2 hours @HR run @lunch, think I will also put in some core,legs,arms a couple of times a week,will rest mon. and fri. sat will do long ride @hr sun. long run@ HR. I need to drop a few pounds so I will work at being good on the food side. I might slide in a sprint or oly but not a lot as I plan on doing the longhorn half with slowride in Oct. after that I'll rest a bit and start to build for something bigger. I am also going to try and swim a couple of days a week with coach to improve my swim. Hope the extra core and body will help also and I know dropping a few LBs will give me happy feet. So that's the plan for now