Master runner

hood run.. ran with sophie first mile or so.

pf o&b with 2 miles of on / off 1 min fartleks on the way back

Woke up bright and early and waited on J-Hat to pick me up and we went down to hop in the car with Ean...We took out about 5a.m. from Ean's place and went to Ada to participate in the oldest running race in OK.."Fireball Classic" 5k/10k

This year they opened up some serious money for the overall winners if they broke the course record.. 1000 bucks for 10kers and 500 for the 5kers. 

I had some competion coming up from Tx in the master div. which I never have beat...until today..

We got to the race just in the nic of time as we walked in to register the older stressed out with a serious additude woman told us that the registration was closed and we were too late. I quickly gave her my saddest puss and boots face and told her we had drove all the way from OKC to run this race and she let us in...

We took off a few minutes after the 10k and the weather was less than ideal..Not getting a chance to run on the course before hand I wasn't sure what I had gotten into. 

My comp took off at what I would guess 4 min+ miles and I settled into low 5's in hopes of them coming back to me at the hills. 

The course was a double loop and I managed to catch him at the half way mark...I put in a surge somewhat going down a small hill and tried to maintain. By this point the next dude was a good 30 secs ahead of me and i dipped and dodged through the walkers on my second loop..

I kept trying to listen to the people cheering to see if anyone was close... with about 5-10 meters i was surprized by a nice kick from Johnathan K which took me right at the finish..

Did a cool down with Scott, J-Hat, Ean, and Ben Chesang afterwards and we had a huge portion of the Tuesday night speed group meet up for some breakfast in downtown Ada...

Had a really good time with some good running buds.

met up with a nice crew for a mid day sweat fest on an out and back hilly run at draper.

Danny, Eric, Neal and Jason x 2 

Pf solo rasy 1/2

PM run did a preview of the new brookhaven course with Aaron and boy it looks good..afterwards we ran with the OKRUNNER group run.

Tuesday night speed group..WMH track...super nice out..did 5x1k and 6x200m. 

pf - o&b steady state

did an easy run pf.. Met and ran a few with shane spencer

met Austin C down at edgemere park for somewhat of a tempo..wasn't sure what i could do with my earlier run in the heat..was able to mustard up 2 miles at close to what we wanted then i had to shut it down..Austin was a mile short of what he wanted but looked pretty strong.. I jogged around and gave him water and jumped in his last .6 of a mile to finish it up.

solo pf run with a 4 mile or so pickup 

Met j-hat  at louie's for a cut down run... J-hat took a spill we had to cut'r short

Met jimbo and ean out at draper.. Jimbo fell off about the first mile. Not sure if he is hurt or what..ran about 8 min pace with ean to the turn around and he started tanking..i took off about mile 9 and planned on tacking on a few more. The south end of the lake road was rough and had to slow down.. Decided to end at 18. Had a good week of miles. Officially a pr mpw.

did a run with the OK Runner Crew from campus corner. ran mostly with Scotty D, Patrick, Johnny and Aaron. Scotty and I put in a few more before and after the group run. Had fun chatting with Gus and crew afterwards.

did a am run out to the lemon lot and saw the  presidential parade getting ready for the big dog and pony show tomorrow.

tuesday night crew out at the wmh track. some rude soccer dad got a little sideways with me tonight as i ask them nicely to move out the inside lane so we could do our workout..as i was moving the waterjugs and bags outta the way i thought we might go to blows. i ended up asking the soccer coach if he would have the girls move their things out of our way.. I guess the dad thought i was gonna steal or break something...super jerk.

anyhow we had a nice workout..did 6x800; and 5x200

did a solo run on base. watch died about 2 miles in so I stayed on my normal course. ended up doing the 13 mile loop. Heat really zapped me took me a good nap when i got home.

did a solo out and back around air force 1 

woke up and got out to hefner about 7:30 or so and put a solid effort in around the lake after a mile warmup. going into the wind was challenging at points but the wind felt good. Stopped at mile 5 for a quick  splash and go. did a mile cool down.

heading down to OKRUNNER for a big ole tent sale.

Met Eric for a early morning long run around Hefner. We picked up Nate for about 6 miles or so. Good run with good company. Lots of bikes out today.

12 hot one's with Eric out at Draper.

solo pf'n

had a smaller group out at the track tonight but still a good crew rightly so. workout tonight was 3x800; 8x400; and 4x200 

I ended up taking off 2 sec on each 800 and felt remarkably well considering i am fighting off some sinus infection stuff. Feelin good about my 5k's coming up.. all this heat training is starting to pay off i feel like.

pf ed some new trails on base , had to make a mad dash for a porta john and just barely made it. Got back and took advantage of the cold shower... Money 

Did an up tempo run with some surges across base & back in the heat

did a out and back..coughing and a gagging the whole way.. Summer colds really suck

came out Hefner after a nap and wanted to just go by feel.. Got out to s&s park and j-hat joined me for a few. Picked it up a bit after he turned back.. Felt good..ready for this cold and congestion to be gone 

morning run with sophie..head full of snot

pM met Aaron a tad early for some extra miles before the ok runner run. 

a.m.- did a solo out and back run on base easy..planning on doing some mile repeats in the pm

p.m.- did some warmup miles at bluff and then had a nice group show up and i cut my wo short at 3 miles..the 3rd repeat really got me. Watermelon was good and cold afterwards.

pf solo o&b

pf o&b slogging - AM

did a 4 mile knockdown with Eric at Draper.. 10 total PM

pre bob pf o&b