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I ran a nice noon run up by the tennis center on 16th east of the park. Scoped out the loop to see if it’d fit Jared’s and my long repeat work better. It’s hard to say, I’d like a better longer loop for VO2 repeats, which is why the 800m loop at [...]

Two sets of (1x 800m, 2x 400m, 4x 200m) first set was a run down from 82.5″ for the 800m, 80″s for the 400’s, and then 37-40″s for the 200’s. The 2nd set was faster, 80″ for the 800m, 77″ then 75″ for the 400, and then 37″, 35″, and a final 33″ perhaps [...]

On a pleasantly cold sunny Monday post Christmas, back in Mt. Pleasant, I took to the trails around Connecticut Ave. for about 45 minutes in the morning and then 30 minutes up Porter to Cleveland Park in the eve. I tried to do some drills in the soccer park by by the mill but [...]

went running in the cold left over snow and parking lots of Middletown, Ohio. Felt pretty good. Have been reading and strategizing over what Jared and I should do for training. Beyond not running around vacant parking lots in the Midwest, I’m going to recommend two speed sessions a week, with a [...]

Jared and I ran a timed mile tonight. I managed to hold him off by about 2 seconds after running 75 seconds for the opening lap, which may be been too fast in retrospect. My laps were 75.1″, 77.3″, 80.8″, 78.4″ (w/ +9m). Mark at 5′:11.5″ and Jared at 5′:13.5″. Jared was [...]

I was supposed to run at the PG Sportsplex today, in the first track meet of my 1/4 century adult life. The last time I ran in a meet I think was 7th or 8th grade. I believe I ran the 800m. Today, however, I slept in.
I don’t know why I did [...]

And I even beat the 75 year old NASA employee, dealing him a much needed ego deflating blow just two weeks before his retirement from the Space Agency.
Yeah, so I finished top 5 in the Tidal Basin 3K, but really of the 40 or so folks who lined up for the race, only about 8 [...]

Yesterday (Monday 12/13) evening’s session had hopeful beginnings. 15 min of stretching. On the warm up jog over to Cardozo track, the upper right quadricep strain that had been hampering me seemed to be healed. However, once we were two laps into our first 1.5 mile, I could sense that it was [...]