checksb-camcgee,

I merged your names. 

Alright!  Camcgee is signed up for a race finally!  And it's a half marathon!!  woot!  She's nuts!  Which one is it?  Can you tell us?  Let us know which 5k you choose also.  Then if you share that ... I'll tell you about a race in Texas that I'm signed up for.  (no kidding)

Checks, your story is great.  A time of 56:21 is awesome.  Think of it ... you just ran two 5k races under 29 minutes each ... back to back.  That's not an easy thing to do.  Way to go.  I loved the photos.  You smile when you run.  I'm always serious looking in my pics.  ha!

This last weekend was fun over here.  I helped our runners club organize a 5k race.  It was to benefit a local public garden estate.  See the link:

http://www.kingwoodcenter.org/index.html

We had 239 runners and food and music and prizes.  I enjoyed it so much that I may volunteer for more local races.

I need to go.  I don't have much time.  Just checking in quickly and saw your posts.

later,

Mike

camcgee,

I'm excited about your "half" in San Antonio.  Alright!  You've inspired your husband, too.  That's terrific.  My wife has also started to run in the last few months and participated in that 5k we held here last weekend.

Here is my race::

http://www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com/

gulp.  I'm pretty anxious about it, even this far out from the race.  The longest I've ever run is ~ 14.5miles and it was very difficult.  So, I've put together a training plan for my pre-training.  LOL.

I'll let you guys know how it's going.  This weekend it's 14 miles for my long slow day.  I backed off the mileage after the half in Columbus last month and have started to climb back up now.  It sure would be nice to have run the full distance once in training before heading to Houston.  I chose that race because my wife wanted to make it a special fitness kind of vacation at a cool destination.  We'd been there once when I was in the military and enjoyed it.  Also the US Olympic Marathon trials are the day before.  All the big names (Ryan Hall, Meb Keflevski??, Shalane Flanagan, Desiree Davila, Kara Goucher) will all be there.  So that will be a bonus.

later,

Mike

Did this thread fall off the edge of the earth?  I don't see it in my bookmarks any longer.  In fact, I have no bookmarks! 

(runs in circles screaming)

Hey y'all, I'm still here and still puttering along.

Mike - awesome shots of the race. Nope I still haven't done one. Mostly because it's summer here and these races start at like 8 am - by 8 it is already close to 90 if not above and I've been done with my run for a couple of hours.

I'm up to 6 miles again for my long run and was able to make my last mile the fastest. I'm still not speedy by any definition, but I am speeding up. I've picked up about a minute in the last couple of weeks just because I'm feeling a bit better on the knees and the therapy is going really well.

Checks - what I wouldn't give for some of that rain! I'd gladly trade you a few degrees for  a few inches of rain.

Anyway - I'm feeling like any gains in this weather are great strides and I'm pressing on toward my 1/2 Marathon in November.

Praying for you both in your efforts too.

I plan on doing the whole distance a few times before the race - I'd like to get to 15 miles before then. I'm not just training for this 1/2, but toward next year's full and still trying to find that balance where I start dropping weight. I'm increasing slowly though and based on how well I do that wee's runs.

I really don't have an upper limit to my distance. I will just keep going until I have no more time on the day or I can't go any farther physically. I'm really curious to see just how far that might be.

Hello you two.  I understand miles Mike, don't worry (I am English after all)... but they work in km here in France, so I use them for running, mainly.

I think you are both amazing (and slightly bonkers) running these distances. I have yet to run further than 10 miles in one go and can't imagine doing anything farther any time soon.  This week I have only run 7.5km (4.66miles) and 8.67km (5.38miles).  It has been raining (again) for the past 48 hours so I haven't been out.  I shall go again tomorrow, come rain or shine.

I plan to enter another 10km race in December, but I think it is just around a track, which will be very boring, although completely flat which I am not used to!  I have no plans to EVER run a marathon, and probably wouldn't manage a half either. 

I wish you both lots of luck in your forthcoming races and look forward, as always, to the results.

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Photos of a few places that I run:

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