Master runner

easy malls with Andrew on the river..tight cheek'n it back to the boat house restroom.

5 miles around the hood real easy...1 mile with sophie. fixin to hop on a plane for Cali

easy shake out with joe and ean ran from hotel on a nice trail.

Joe, Ean and I shared a room and woke up at 4:15 and through our stuff on and grabbed a quick light breakfast and hopped on the bus just outside the hotel. 

We got up to Folsom Prison and sat on the bus for 15-20 min before we decided to get off and hit the port. We hit the port no problems and had about 45 min to kill. We just hopped on a random bus that had some extra seats open and chatted with some other runners till about 20 till gun time. We dropped off our clothes at bag drop and headed down to start. Joe and I got a quick pee break off the side of the road when we hopped off the bus. After that Joe and I jogged around on the side for about 1/2 mile or so, mainly to stay warm. We lined up and I spotted Scotty D and planned on going with him for as long as I could.

We took off and I felt really good. We started a bit slower but I was fine with it. Scotty is an absolute master to negative splitting. We went through 10k with Stephanie Bruce and Chatted with her a bit. Scotty used to run in college with her coach Ben Rosario and we have a mutral friend in Scott Smith.

We kept going at 10k and ran with a group of about 8-10 guys off and on for the first 1/2. I was really surprised when I went through 1/2 faster than I ever have. I still felt somewhat good and Scotty was feeling better cause he was pulling away slightly. 

About mile 14-15 I slowed about 10 sec a mile and started feeling the effects of running a marathon 2 weeks prior. I still felt like I could maintain under 6 min pace and made that somewhat a goal within the race. 

About mile 20 S Bruce caught me and was with another dude and I latched on with them for a mile or so then she pulled away from us both. 

Mile 22 I hit the 6 min pace and it was a good survival drag in to the finish..

My breathing was fine and the course was perfect. My legs simply didn't have any get up and go in them. When I came in the finish they annouced that I was unoffically the 3rd place master. I was really surprised and thankful I made it in without falling off completely. 

Scotty D ended up with like 2:28:01 ish and was really just using this race as a rust buster. 

Ean was sick with a cold and i really felt sorry for him. He ended up just over 3 hrs and Jenny right behind him. 

Joe took a whopping 15 min off his marathon PR and got a BQ for the first time.

We had a great trip other than Ean being sick.

Me, Joe, Ean, Jenny and Scotty

PF run easy..ran into Jesse with 2 to go and he tagged along to the gym.

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Solo 1/2 around Hefner. Cold air finally.

Went out to Hefner and met Roger for a steady state 6 miler. Cold air was nice. Jogging back to the car got really cold.

solo cold run on base

after work run on draper dirt roads. Started out with Danny and we turned around at mile 9 when we met Eric and Ethan. Danny cut off at mile 11 or so and we ran on to my true out and back.

out and back with blake and roger from nhp

10 solo base miles

6 with ok runner crew on campus.

did some mile repeats with Ean around EWP

did a dirt road out and back with Eric after work.

broke down today and got on the tread mill

6 solo o & b on base then core workout and 2 more miles on the tread.

8 miler after work with Eric at Draper

Did some pacing duties for a few buddies on a bad weather day. Was able to get Brett under 18. that was the goal. 

Roger, Ean, Brett and I took off and the plan was stick together and I would take the blunt of the wind. We got to about 1k and things got pretty hairy with the cold north wind..I actually wondered if any of us would be able to do it on that day. My hands were completely numb and it was mighty miserable.

Roger and Ean fell off about 1 mile and Brett stuck right on my tail. We got to the turn around and the pace went right down. My hands started getting some feeling back and I was certain that if Brett could stay with me he would get well under 18. We hit 5:30's coming back and he wasn't breathing too bad. 

The last stretch was directly into the wind and Brett asked me to stay with him. I took him to about 50m and told him to go around and get it. He was super excited. It was exciting to see a friend get a goal they have been trying to get. Ean was about 30 sec behind me and Roger about 30 sec behind Ean.  Roger was fighting off a cold earlier in the week and Ean has been doing some crazy miles. It was a great effort by all on such an epic winter day.

Aaron, Amanda, Andrew and Kels were out cheering us on as well. They did some warmup and cold down miles with us. After the race we all went to POPS for some breakfast. 

did a solo treadmill run at work.

met up with Ean and Eric for another 12 after work. Draper dirt

dread mill..yuck

did a run on base and met up with Danny for some midway miles. 

After work met Eric for a quick Draper dirt road run.

3 mile pf on the tread mill - AM

10 mile Tempo after work. 3 with Eric and I had to bail and hit the port. He ended up going 4 and i did a total of 10.

easy ewp miles. did some with Thomas..and Ean

Kilgore half marathon for deployed troops. ran out of Stacey Browns place. Used as a back end ss

had an epic run planned to start at the new ok runner store and run down to the okc river then down the trail to overholster lake then to hefner and back down to the store. wanted to do a run miles pr before 2017. had a lot of running buddies meet up with and help support the 4 of us that ran the whole way.

Danny, Ean, J-hat and I ran the whole loop. Ean cut the run off a bit early and i ended up making up the mile on the end while waiting on them to get back. 

Roger snapped a bunch of shots and helped support us with water gatorades. Brad, Jordan and Blake also helped in the support. We had a great time.

solo dirt road run at Draper. ran into Jimbo.

did a solo run at ewp

solo o& b at work - am 

solo dirt road after work run...well actually did some face time with Jake mid run. - pm

Met Roger and Blake at Hefner for a workout. I did 2x 6 miles and Roger and Blake did 2x 5. Roger had figured out a couple of courses where we would end up finishing close to the same time. It worked perfectly the first 6 miler but the 2nd I fell way off my pace and finished well behind them.  Last workout of the year.