Month: December 2023

A tired early morning. We all have these. Just fight through it. Nice morning for a run, though. Partly cloudy and temperature about 35 degrees and no real wind.

40 or so days until Houston.

Today’s run was a 8.18 mile mix of hills and flat terrain. Pace was 9:38. Total climb was about 430 feet.

An easy recovery run early morning. Painful at the beginning, as usual, but it fades after a about a quarter mile.

Houston is in a bit less than six weeks. It’s the first marathon in a busy 2024 schedule.

Today’s run was a 2.18 mile mildly rolling route. Pace was 9:41. Total climb was about 91 feet.

Race day. Rain, stiff wind and temperature around 43 degrees. The course had all kinds of side roads with pothole patches, a narrow main road with next to no berm, lots of freezing cold puddles, etc. Cold enough and wet enough so that I started losing some feeling in the toes. Whatever. It was a good training run and I didn’t get run over.

Today’s run was a 5K and then a half marathon (16.2 miles total). Average pace was about 9:49. Total climb was about 930 feet.