Master runner

had a big ole crew out for a easy loop around Hefner...Riley came out with me but froze his feet off and had to turn back at about 4 miles...he was on a bike.

had a big ole crew meet up and do a point to point run..we started at meridian and ran up to Louies.

Plan today was to go easy the first 10 and pick up the last 10..we picked up 4 more runners at Lake Overholser and that is where Jesse and i did a pickup..

Jesse stayed with me for a couple of miles and I waited for him at Rogers truck cause we had water there and i didn't know if he knew the way back. so after giving him a little instruction on how to get back i took off again.

I hit 20 miles at S&S park and jogged in  3 more miles from there easy.

Nice crew out 12 all together. 

easy solo o&b

easy 8 on the tm

went down to OK Runner and traded some shoes out..hit the track at Westmoore on the way home to break them in..

tm with some pickups

Met Ean out at lake hefner for a 10 mile tempo..decided to run the first miles a bit harder to make up for the wind i was going to hit when i got to the other side..about mile 6 i got a real bad side stitch and almost threw in the towel.

Decided it would be good to run it on out and tried taking some really deep breathes to try and get rid of it..I think it helped. Was able to mustard out a decent workout. 

also broke in my new adios boost 2's ...the heel drop in them  is very minimal and i really felt my calves tighten up after i slowed.

tm easy 

Gravel road run with Nate out at lake Draper

Easy out and back on the tread mill

went out to base track and did some 1/4 mile repeats 10x1/4 with 200m recovery ran them solo from 75-80 sec

baby progression 

took off 1/2 a day from work to pack and get things ready to go for Houston. Made my way out to ewp for an easy 6  and ran into Marlon O and jogged a few with him.

little shake out run with J-Hat, Ean and Maryln after the drive down.

Drove with J-Hat, Ean and Marilyn from my sisters house to the Hilton there in mid-town Houston and met up with Rog, Court and we walked over to bag check and lined up for the start..It was nice and chilly out but really good for running. We met up with a great big Okie crew on the start line. Got all the tanks emptied and gu'ed up and took my beet elite about 10 min before the gun, also took a 5hr about an hr before the gun. 

I really started to notice I had to pee right after the national anthem but knew there wasn't getting out of line where I was located... I did bring an empty Gatorade bottle just for the occasions but decided to try and run it out...

At the start some volunteers were holding us back with a rope and slowly walking us up to the elite field. Several dudes made a quick slip under the rope and started a chain reaction...Later i heard a woman actually tripped and busted her tooth..

We got up there and i threw my shirt over to the side and took off. I got out with Amanda until things started clearing and saw Aaron (her boyfriend) and got up with him..he was shooting for sub 2:30 and was making a debut marathon. The first mile was a bit slow and I was good with it seeing how I had no warm-up and was pretty cold. 

I took off from there and about mile 6.6 I witnessed something I hope no one ever has to witness or experience . A girl running the 1/2 about 5 strides ahead of me exploded with a bad case of diarrhea I thought for sure she was going to quit but she had no let up in her will. 

What I saw going every which way hasn't words to describe...the smell was awful and to my surprise the girl kept on trucking...I was fixing to throw away my warm up hat and decided to make a bolt up to her and give it to her...She was so appreciative for it and I also decided to give her my gloves as well...she told me she was trying to qualify for the trials. I told her good luck and I stayed in front of her for the remainder of my run with the half marathoners. I found out later she in-fact didn't give up on her dream but finished even when she knew she wouldn't reach her goal...Never Quit

I ran a lot of the 2nd 1/2 with a woman from Canada named Rachel. She gapped me fairly well on a small hill close to the finish. I felt pretty good most of the race but at mile 10 or so i was going for my #2 gu and dropped it. I was a little worried about it but decided not to stop and pick it up hoping that they would hand some out. I started taking more Gatorade until I did finally grab one at mile 21 or so. 

I wore my adios boost 2's for the first time in a race..they felt pretty good. I was really excited when i got up to the finish line and the clock was ticking right at 2:33ish  I tried to run under with a quick surge but was a little short...later I found out that my chip time was actually under so I'll take it. The weather was absolutely gorgeous. All my buddies had big runs and most everyone had a PR. 

It feels great to get a PR on the first race of the year...

did a short jog before hopping in the car all day..feeling pretty good for a post marathon day.

did a solo red dirt recovery run after work out at draper

weights and easy miles on eliptical

easy miles on tm .... Test on foot passed

Met Danny, J-hat and Nate for an evening run at Draper..super nice out for January day.

Had a big ol crew meet up at Draper for some dirt road running

Solo pf easy o&b

Solo river run after work

did a solo dirt road run after work out at Draper. nice out

solo up pace 1/2 around base

Easy run around base after eating a couple of pancakes thanks to Eric 

had a nice crew meet up for some hills run with the landrunners. did a little 5-6 mile pick up with Jazz and finished up easy miles with the rest of the crew.

did a out and back at lake draper with Blake and Danny. did 1/2 and 1/2 dirt/road.. mostly all hills easy

AM - Solo miles on base.

PM - Jesse Hugo birthday run with Andrew down to Eagle lake and back.

solo easy out and back... Was tired and oped for a nap rather than another run.

did a solo 3x3 mile repeat out at draper wind was pretty bad. did the set into the wind by effort and didn't hit the sets at pace with wind to my back...was alright with it and kept it just under marathon pace. 

I am finding it hard to motivate myself to get out and run. Think its the winter blues..

AM- solo run out and back. ran with jimbo for about a mile. saw J-Hat on the way back

PM- Met Andrew and Eric D  for a dirt road run.

solo out&back

Nate came over to the house and rode up to Piedmont where we met up with J-hat for a nice hilly dirt road run... my game plan was to run 1 mile somewhere around marathon pace and recover at about a min off marathon pace.. with the hills thrown in I think this could possibly be one of the hardest workouts i have tried.

Great run with some great running buds.

One for the memory bank for sure!!

ran out the first 3 with jhat the rest was a windy solo run.. Man crazy wind blowing.. Felt like i ran through a f5 tornado several times..

6 out and back for some a.m. miles at work

met up with nate and jazz at ewp and did a 6x1 mile workout with 1/2 mile recovery..easy miles on the ends 

Hit all my miles at 5:13 or better and felt good and comfortable.  I wanted to hit them all at 5:20 or better.  I ran out the first mile a lot quicker than I wanted and slowed down the pace so i could finish the workout....Nate and Jazz were about 5-15 sec ahead of me on the rest of them.

solo nice and easy recovery miles

did a slow run out and back on base. ran a few with Bruce and a few with J-Hat

easy solo run

Had a big ol crew meet up at Louie's and my plan was to do the loop'n lakes 26.2 mile run... I was pretty sure I was going the whole distance solo till I saw Nate...I was glad he showed up.. we took the crew of 9 out to 8 miles and Nate and I were the only 2 to go the whole distance. We picked it up kept a pretty good clip around mid to low 6 min pace the rest of the run..It was a PR for Nate and his first sub 3.. Ready to watch some marathon trials now.

easy dirt road miles

solo windy 10

squeezed in a quick 5 mile track workout in late in the evening

easy miles on grass trail 

AM- did a solo out and back on base real easy...windy as all get out.

PM- made a quick stop at bike trails due to the high winds..knocked out some easy  miles 

went out to hefner after work for a planned tempo...was gonna try 10 miler but leggs were real tired and didn't want to come out of 5:50's....absolute beautiful day...I cut it short at 4 and jogged back in. Think I was feeling the effects of running a marathon on Sat. 

good ol nice and easy hill run with Ean, Jhat,and Nate on some Draper roads. after work

Easy solo o&b

easy out and back with 10x 30 sec strides

ran a few with JHat and then finished up with an easy out and back.

easy out and back with 10 x 10 sec fartleks

Got out to Lake Hefner bright and early to pick up my packet..met Danny at the pick up and we did a warm-up..

We got back and lined up and started on time. My plan was to try and go out a bit harder with the wind to my back and try and make up for the time I would loose going into the wind. Aaron and some younger kid went with me till mile #2 and I had it down around 5:30's with a nice tail wind. I kept it there till we got over on the other side of the lake and slowed a bit I had about a 30sec lead at the turn aroun. I was wanting to try and hit 1/2 way at around 43-44 min. and I was real close to being where I wanted...I took 2 waters after the 1/2 and was nursing a gu. I got up on the dam and planned on hitting the water stop there but a crowd of runners doing the 15k made that impossible. Just after that I turned the dreaded corner on the dam and went right into about a 16-18 mph wind and was dodging runners. With a little more than 3miles to go Aaron had reeled me in and blew by me at a nice pace. I did about as much as I could do to catch him but he was a lot fresher than I was.

I was going for the all time master record in OK which is currently 1:28:38 and fell a bit short of it. I did however pick up the single age record by a couple of seconds and hit about a 4 min PR for the distance. 

Had a great time hanging out and chatting with a bunch of folks. 

10 easy ones at work

10 easy on base with Danny.

after work met a crew on the bishop track for some 1/4 mile repeats.

Easy PF run with Danny on base

easy o&b

Easy shake out with nate after driving all day

Wow...what can I say about this crazy weekend of racing..

Let me begin from my house where Nate met me and we took off about 8 am after he worked all night.. I told him I would drive so he could try and get some Z's in on the way..He ended up getting maybe 2 hrs at best.

We got to the expo about 3ish and picked up our packets and got a free session on the compression boots which helped a bunch after an eight hr car ride.

We hopped back into the car and headed over to my sisters house about an hr away with the traffic. We did a small shake out run and then tanked up on some really good sushi. After dinner Nate was really tired and we headed back and hit the sack. Saturday morning we got up out of there a bit before 5 and went a different route that Carrie knew that didn't have hardly any stop lights.. We arrive at Woodlands a bit later than I would have liked  but still had time to warm up..we met Chris who was taking care of the elite field and he showed us where to leave our bags and I asked him where the ports were and he pointed us to the general public ports that had a line a mile long...

Before Nate and I left my car I made a valid and verifiable point to Nate that I learned from my buddy Jake Buhler...Never go to a race without a good supply of TP...Nate was very thankful for my advise and even more thankful that I had a good supply. We made our way to the woods and took care of some business. Afterwards we got a small 1 mile warmup  and I determined that I wasn't done with them woods so I went back.. We got our warmup clothes off and headed up to the start line which was about a 1/4 mile up from the VIP tent.

The morning was really nice about 50 deg. with a heavy fog...kinda eerie. We took off and a pack of  about 5 Kenyans and 1 Ethiopians jumped right out front there was a couple of dudes a little behind them I was probably about 8th or so for the first 4 miles.. about mile 3 I knew my pee urge wasn't going away and spotted a port right off the course and hit it.. I was running with the lead woman when i jumped off. After relieving myself i counted about 15-20 seconds behind her and wasn't too worried about the few lost seconds until about mile 6 when I had the ole dreadful bowel poop pains and at mile 7 I started trying to find a port.. just before mile 8 i couldn't take it anymore..I ducked down in the woods for a record setting poop and knew the cheap cotton gloves I had on were there for an important reason.. When I jump back on course I was met by a younger runner and ran with him for a good bit.. we chatted and ended up catching the lead woman at mile 16 and they took off from me about 17 or so. I ran the rest of the race in no man's land till we joined the 1/2 marathoners. I dodged walkers the rest of the way in..couldn't make heads or tails on which course was which but did the best I could to not collide with anyone. I ended up having a short distance on my watch..this was a first...I also caught Brandon the younger runner and finished just a few seconds behind him..

The goal for this race was basically to run a free race and win a little money if I could...I knew with the race the week before took some out of my legs and I felt that on the back end..My sister did well on her 1/2 ...she took off about 15 min. and Nate my buddy did really well too. technically he was 2nd but they gave him 3rd place money...long story.

smiles all around

 AM - easy o&b on base talked with Danny for a sec.

PM - hit some Draper dirt before the rain...legs feel really good. thought i better get in some miles before the week of raining begins.

hopped on the dread mill for some quick miles before i left work...

pounding off some pancakes 

AM - 10 mile solo base out and back

PM - met Jhat out at draper for some dirt road miles... did a small pickup on the back side..Jhat getting fit and ready for Boston...

ran across base with Danny 

Met up with Danny, Geoffrey and J-hat after work today and planned on a nice easy recovery type run...Geoffrey had other plans...he suckered me into going much faster on the hills than I had planned but coming back i broke him pretty good on the hills after mile 15 he started getting tired and bowed out early on the run.. we had planned on doing 20 but i couldn't get him to go the last mile. It was a great day to be out running with my bud's . 

easy out and back on base - am

met J-Hat for a easy run around Hefner

Met Cody and Nate at Westmoore track for a small workout...leggs were tired so I didn't do much more than I had to. 4x1k and 4x 1/4 

met Ean and Eli at EWP for some stroller miles.

easy out and back at work

easy miles out at the track

easy run at draper

lacking motivation 

ss through Oklahoma wind tunnel

8 o&b at work.

8 with Ean at Draper after work

ran out with Jimbo to 3.5 then solo the rest of the way.

easy run out on base...ran the last 3 with jimmy and brian

did a solo long run on the mm course kept a moderate pace and knocked it out early cause i had some company in town..

easy o&b

easy o n B

quick track workout to work in some quicker leg turnover..3 x mile; 1 x 800 ; 2x400 ; 2 x 200

12 easy miles

easy out and back with Danny

Got out to OC bright and early and met up with Nate who signed up for the 20k and we did a small warm up. Ran into J-hat, Danny, Bruce and Lance at registration. I hit the restroom one last time and was cutting it real close and had to drop my warm up clothes on a table there in the auditorium. The 30km was the first race to take off and not many showed up for it, maybe 5-10. I took off and grabbed the lead from the go. 

J-hat snapped a few shots as I ran by him..he ran the 5k which was the last race to start. The course was set up on a 5k loop with a few tight turns and one turn around..by the time I got to the last lap I was getting pretty tired of the tight turns and turn around..

My goal was to try and get the all time OK Master record(1:49:28) and I was lucky enough to get it. Also picked up the single age..this was my first overall master record.

Danny was 2nd place in the 30km but was a bit shy of the Single age at 57. Bruce came in about 4th on the  30km and Nate ended up winning the 20km. J-hat had a nice 5k time as he is fixing to head out for Boston in a few weeks. 

It was a really nice day and you could feel the wind on the back side but for Ok it was basically no wind at all. 

I took 1 gu from about 10-20k nursing it. 

am- easy o&b

PM miles out of Andrew's with a nice crew of runners o&b on the katy trail

delayed my run till after supper..mistake.

did a smaller workout at work with a series of mile on mile off then found my way to the track for some 200 on 200 off's

easy miles in the AM- 12

easy miles in the PM- 8

12 mile progression after work 

18 slow ones out at draper after work

after evening services I trotted around Hefner 

Easy monday miles...   Few with danny

easy o&b at work.

tuesday night track at Southmoore due to soccer games at Westmoore nice crew.

did some 800z at 2:29ish and some 400z at 69-75 then finished with some strides on  the straights.

easy o&b

easy ewp

went up to Stillwater with Aaron, Amanda and Nate and met a few more friends up there for the Remember the 10 race. I wanted to do the 10k but decided that I would do the 5k  with the weather and seeing how I am planning on racing the memorial marathon next weekend I figured it might take less out of me. 

I was certain I made the right choice at race time. The wind was picking up and it was sticky muggy out. We took off and I about took a spill with Pistol Pete the OSU maskot that shot the gun for the start. It was a slight uphill for the first mile and I didn't feel 5k sharp at all. I ran behind Scotty, Nate and the dude that won the 10k for a bit till the 5k split off and the 5k was spread out pretty good by then. I could see the 2 OSU runners out front and Jazz wasn't too far behind them then it was Luis and me. Stayed the same pretty much through the race. I never could get out of 5:26ish pace. 

had a nice time with some good running friends.

solo 10 progression on the river

had a short track workout at South Moore with a nice crew..Did all my repeats with Amanda. we ran 10x 400 with 200 recover. hit them 80-73 progressively faster.

Easy 8 at EWP after getting father in law to the doc.

Easy out and back 

easy o & b

I got up to my normal parking spot a little later this year and found someone had already grabbed my spot. I ended up getting a real good one on 5th and Broadway which worked out perfect for my quick get away to Church services after the race. I had planned on hanging out in the pancake church till about 15 till start. I took my racing shoes and a bag up to the church and hung out and ran into  Eric and his daughter, Jimbo and his son, and Roger. Roger question me about having a backpack which I totally goofed on that one... I hurried back to my car and decided to change there and leave my stuff in the car. Thomas my brother was going to be crewing for me along with my nephew Carl and Mary. I just hung out and waited for them to get there and gave them my Nuun bottles. Then we made our way to the pancake church and hung out there till about 15 till. 

   I got down to the start line and ran into a bunch of buddies. J-hat was doing the quick Boston turn around and I told him to get up there with me but he declined and hung out a bit behind.

I overheard Patrick Gomez saying to some of the 1/2 marathon guys what his plan was 5:22 pace. I knew there was no way he would be able to get the course record this day with the warm temps and wind  this being his debut as well. I figured if he could run that pace I couldn't keep up with him anyhow... My plan was to try and go out at 1:16-1:17 on the first 1/2 and hope that I could hang on to that pace coming back and at least try to get the single age (2:37:ish) or the main goal all time master (2:36ish) both which I know I am able to run and in shape to run. The real challenges with these records are the weather vs the time of year the marathon is ran in OK.

We took off and Patrick took off with a big pack of 1/2 marathoners and I was running with a few myself.

We thinned out real good going down Lincoln towards the capitol. mile 3

After the 10k split I passed a Coyote going up gorilla hill and pretty much ran a solo race the whole rest of the way.

 I had my crew give me water/nuuns at mile 7, 12 and 21.  I hit the wind at lake Hefner and saw Patrick about 1-1.5 miles ahead of me going down Lake Hefner trail.

When I got down to S&S park Scotty D ran with me for about a mile. He was waiting at the relay station there. 

I saw Craig Thompson at mile 10 and 18 taking pics. He gave me some encouraging words. 

When I got down to mile 21 Mary told me that Patrick was 8 min. ahead of me. And I knew the hell I was fixing to pay going down Classen blvd into the wind for the next 3-4 miles.  Toward the end of Classen I had a dude go flying past me and I realized he was the Tulsa Runner Relay guy. The last few miles were a real struggle and I basically went into survival mode. Jazz (OK Runner Relay) caught me and ran with me for about a 1/2 mile at mile 25 and I told him to go catch the Tulsa Runner Relay just ahead of us.. I found out later that 1st place  Patrick Gomez was cramping pretty bad and I was catching up to him. He is a great runner and has a lot of talent and I was happy for him. I was impressed at the fearlessness he had going into the race..he was on pace at the 1/2 to get the record. He ended up only beating me by a couple of minutes.

Easy out and back with Jimbo. felt good to get the legs moving.. Not real sore but later in the day after I had sat around I was a little stiff.

Solo out and back..sure was a muggy one. A lot of bad weather predicted for later in the day..

easy out and back.

had a nice crew meet up and do a big lap around Hefner

ran with Ean and the OKRunner crew around campus.

did an easy out and back birthday run.

did a quick 12 miler after lunch

moderate pace run with austin

solo easy pf

Did an out and back on base solo.. Did some core and leg weights after.

After work hit some dirt roads at Draper...did a few with ED

did a smaller than planned workout due to the 90 deg weather today. was going to attempt to hit some k repeats but after a couple in i decided it would be in my best interest to just cut it short today.

easy shuffle on base

steady state run at work - 12 miler

ran a up pace run with j-hat out around hefner- 10 miler

easy run on base

did a long run out at draper after work with a nice crew..Josh, Joe went out to 8 miles and turned back J-hat, Nate and myself did the whole thing

easy8 on base

run with the champions down in Norman did some early miles with Ashley and Ean

Ran with a Priest on the Champion run 

easy 6 at work 

small track workout later

easy run on the draper dirt after work

did a nice 12 mile ss on base. 

met connor and andrew after work for a run #2 on the river

easy longrun with Andrew kept ut around 7:30z most of the way

easy o&b on dirt roads at Draper

easy out and back at work

up pace out and back on draper hills after work

easy o&b

did a easier paced progression started at 8min pace and took off 10 sec a mile till I hit 6:30 

saved a dollar on my run today..easy yezzy jog today

easy miles on the river with Riley. went to POPS for bottomless soda afterwards.

 Well I really hadn't planned on running this race and probably wouldn't have if my Grandma's marathon plans hadn't fell apart due to a death in the family. I've always wanted to do this race and I'm sure glad I did.

I some how persuaded Aaron and Amanda in going with me on a whim..Kyle was already out there hanging out with Talbot who graciously put us up for the weekend and showed us an awesome time. 

We loaded up and headed out Sunday just after morning church services and dodged thunderstorms that produced hail, tornado warnings and a funnel cloud sightings all through Kansas..This worked out pretty good seeing how boring the Kansas drive is.  We ended up making it to Talbots about 8-8:30 and they had dinner waiting for us. Luckily they were nice enough to pick up our packets with all our race bib's and what not. 

Team OK RUNNER

We got up bright and early I think i woke up on Oklahoma time because I was up before the alarm clock.. we had a small breakfast and jogged down from Talbots place.

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Literally 1 mile away from the start line.. Even made a Starbucks stop. I could tell on the jog down that the altitude was showing some effects on me. We did some warmup strides and a few port stops and off we went. 

Right away I noticed how thirsty I was within the first 1/2 mile. I took water at the first stop and glanced at my watch and it had me at 5:20ish and I knew this wasn't going to be the pace for me...not today. We got in about a mile and a half and started up a small hill that put the altitude in real perspective..I wondered if I would even break 40 min. I kept plugging along and tried to stay relaxed and distract myself with all the crazy stuff going on around me...

I never really felt great in the race but did about mile 4 start feeling a little more of a 2nd wind and was able to keep the pace around 5:40's. I told some of my running friends that this was the first race in a long time that  I actually thought about and had to fight thoughts of walking. I felt kinda nauseous and thought I was going to puke but never did. 

I can remember counting down the miles and k's till the finish.  We made a small turn the last 1/2 mile going into the Folsom stadium and I heard a woman hollering at the dude in front of me to show his bib#. She actually ran out to get him and I made my way up the last hill and into the stadium that had folks all around cheering. It was really neat. They laid out some white plastic flooring on the field to run on and it was really slick. I thought my feet were going to come out from me on the last corner and swung out wide and picked off a dude right at the finish. 

Aaron(Top OK Runner) had a great race with a 33:## was waiting on me  and we stood around waiting for all the OK crew to come in  till the race people  ran us off. We had a spot that we met up and took some pics then headed back to Talbots and changed and ate some then rode some bikes back down and met Roger and Blakes crew to watch the elite race and watch the awesome Memorial day celebration. It was very moving and fun to be a part of the whole thing.

This was by far one of the best races I have been to. Well organized supported and fun to be a part of.

 We made it back to Talbots to pack up and shower then  grabbed a burger and headed back to OK. 

Good ol rain run at work. Easy

Easy mile with Riley and Sophie

did a mid run fartlek alternating 1/2mile on off progressively getting faster with the 1/2 miles. easy on the ends

pf 8

did a longrun with some buds and had an emergency iv for ean in pops bathroom afterward...too much heat

met Roger and Blake for an easy lap around Hefner after church this morning.

Did another easy run after evening services 

easy run on base

Did an easy out and back after work-lake Draper

pf 8

Had a small crew meet up at WMH track and did some 1/4 mile repeats

easy run on base

easy o&b

jogged around Edmond and down to OKRUNNER

easy tour around Edmond in my new kicks. 

met Andrew and Ean on the river for a jog downtown. met up with Marilyn and Eli for a few stroller miles to end the run. planning on going back out this evening and knockin out 8 or so more to hit my mileage pr.

Shuffled around the neighborhood to get in almost 9 more..ran a few with Sophie and Riley

ran a loop around hefner with blake and roger. won a buck by walking some dudes dog...blake bet me i wouldn't do it and he lost.

easy o&b

met brett leemaster and jason baird on the river after work for 6 muggy miles

easy ffl pf'd

did a lil track tuesday workout at Westmoore track. 800,400,400 x 3 + a mile of stride the straights.

sweat out 13 muggy miles

solo 10 on base. easy with a 10 10 sec on/off strides on the way back

three early before going to Muskogee (Riley,Sophie, Mary ) for some.

did a hot 7 after we got back.

good easy run around hefner with j-hat after work

Easy run around base

easy out and back on base - pm 

TNT Tuesday night Track. Had a nice crew show at WMH track. Ended  up doing some 400's, 800s, and 300's

did a 10 mile out and back on base and ran into Danny on the way back.. we ran about 3 miles together. was good seeing him.

After work did a 12 miler in the heat..was looking for a strava seg but it has been erased. Trying to make up a few miles after not running yesterday due to being sick. Still have a bunch of crud in my head. 

easy out and back - hot and a head full of snot....planning on racing a mile on the track tonight up in Edmond. Should be a mile PR on the track seeing how I never have raced one on the track.

did a mile race on the track with a bunch of top rated Okies. ended up just under 5 in about 10th place. With my sinus problems all week and the miles I've put in the last few days this was a victory.

ran easy out of dr tom's pad. with a nice crew. cooled off in the pool afterwards.

made a loop around Hefner in the heat with Blake and Vincent.

Out and back early at work.

ran later with the OK Runner group in Norman

solo 6 o&b to lemon lot

did a tnt workout at westmoore track with a nice crew of folks. storm out west provided a nice blanket of clouds for us just in time. we did 4x800 and 4x400

easy o&b

did a steady state on base with a couple easy miles on the ends

did a dirt road double after work out at draper lake on some hills. 

easy out and back to lemon lot..coming back on watermelon hill that dang bird tried a sneak attack on me.

easy 10 some with Lance easy on ewp grass

easy 15 out of dr tom's house..nice crew out. cool down in the pool.

Drove Arya and Kyle down to Ada for the running of oldest race in Oklahoma and to my surprise hardest 10k course I've ran. Several of my running buddies told me about the hill on it and this year instead of doing the 5k I opted to go with the 10 and find out about the hill. 

We met up with Aaron and Amanda who had actually gave me a free entry to the race and all of us warmed up together. Arya was going for the record set by Scott Smith last year (31:31) and Amanda was gunning for Ashley Millers CR of (37:5X). 

I was not really gunning for any specific time just a good honest effort. I learned long ago to throw all fast time PR performances out the window when summer time in OK hits. PR's coming in the spring or fall unless you go out of state.

We took off right at 7 a. m. and had a nice cloudy day, little wind and a lot of humidity. The first couple of miles was fairly fast with some gradual downhill a few windy turns. 

Mile 1 Arya and another college age kid were out front and Aaron and Cale were 10 sec back and I was about 5 sec behind them. 

Mile 2.5 we turned E into a sharp up hill I was kinda shocked because several folks told me the monster hill was at mile 4. about mile 3 we turned back north and a dude with a water hose was at a water stop spraying a mist that I gladly ran through and grabbed a quick drink and that water was ICE cold. I poured a bit on the back of my neck and it took my breath away. 

At mile 3.5 things were pretty spread out and I could see Ayra had made a nice move on massive hill set before me and broke away from the College kid. Aaron was slightly ahead of Cale and their gap on me continued to grow. 

My buddy Jazz that ran the race last year told me this was the only hill he ever walked on. I have never walked up a hill and wasn't planning on walking on this day either. I felt at times that my pace was at a walk but i continued to focus on getting up. The steepest point was at 10% incline on my strava. 

basically from 2.5-4.8 is a hill after that it was roll down the windows and get to the finish line.

Ayra was just shy of the record. - :29 sec and Amanda shattered the 10k and brought home $1000 bucks.  

Kyle won the 5k but was well shy of a record.

We all regrouped and did a few cool down miles and met up for some breakfast a the Prairie kitchen in Ada. Had a great start to my 4th with some good running friends.

Aaron, Amanda, Myself, Arya, and Kyle

easy run on base - AM 13miles

PM - Track workout at westmoore with Nate, Ean and Alexadra

Nate and I did 5x 300 with a couple of 200's to round it out.

easy out and back...wAs thankful for the cold water spicket at 4.5 and the cold shower cool down 

ran sophie for a mile and then got a few solo around the hood. making sure i got rid of my bug from yesterday....so far so good

went up to edmond memorial high school track for  a mark thompson workout

easy out and back at work

did a long run with Nate and crew. Nate and I ended up going 20 with a pick up on the last 5 or so miles through some good hills. 

did a solo run around Hefner. big loop

easy out and back...last mile i saved andrew jackson from the gutter sweet end to a monday run

PM- quick 6 at ewp

easy miles out of the gerrity gym.

Pm - tnt Westmoore track 6x800 ; 1 mile infield stides

slow easy miles on base

solo run out of annex gym..saw frankie jo, jimbo, and Danny..

solo dirt road tempo 4 o&b cool breeze felt nice.

easy run around base in the AM

Solo o&b draper dirt hills after work

did a solo draper dirt road run..was going to do an out and back but the fish and chips i had for lunch changed my mind.

slow jog around base... just loggin some miles

quick 6 on base

Tnt AT west moore track did 5x1k avg 5:13 pace ; felt pretty good for the most part. easy miles on the ends...with a big ol watermelon cool off recovery.

warmed up quick today..hit plenty of water stops on my shuffle around base

did a quick Sophie mile and then some more while waiting on Mary and Riley to get back for the Doc.

ran around lakeside for some super muggy miles.

big ole super duper loop at hefner. heat was high but no humidity and dry air made the run nice.

easy miles around hefner with blake and roger

good ol monday run on base

easy out and back on base

had a nice crew meet up at wmh and we did an andrew nguyen w/o that consist of 2x1200;2x1000;2x800 all with a 1/4 mile reco. went out a little too hard on the 1st one and suffered on the back end of the w/o

ran easy around on base in the AM

did some hot hills out at draper after work.

did a tempo out a lake hefner. had to stop midway for a water break. felt pretty good most of the run.

took advantage of the cooler temps and rain this morning..also j-hat told me about the golf course and i ran a new route today..

muggy draper miles

super slow miles at EWP..ran with a man in a wheel chair.

easy run on base

ok runner pub run

easy miles on base

tnt - westmoore high..had a nice crew show up..did 4x1 mile at 5:20ish was planning on 6 but the heat was too much. cut the workout back. recovered with some yellow meated watermelon.

slow and easy around base

did a hot tempo at Hefner after it cooled a bit. man was it hot...couldn't seem to get out of 6 min pace. was good with it seeing how hot it was.

6 easy miles around the house

started out easy but picked it up after mile 6 or so with Nate around lake Hefner

ran easy around the house...went over and ran on brookside golf course since they are closed.

easy miles around ewp..stayed on the grass

easy solo run on base.

tnt at wmh track 8 x 400 8 x 100

easy loop with j-hat around lake hefner

Sophie miles around the hood

made my way up to Tulsa for the riverside 5k . didn't really know what to expect in a 5k just wanted to run a more up pace effort. I felt strong most all the race and had a kid out surge me with about a 1/4 mile to go. and had another sneek by me right at the line...Did most all the work for the race. we had a slight 5-10 mph wind in our face running north. 

Never felt real sharp..but never felt like i really struggled either. I did get out age graded by a dude that ran 17:20.. I ended up getting 75 bucks for the age grade 2nd place master. 

easy out pick up on the way back...with Ean at Draper

did a solo 13 then caught Danny and finished up the last two with him on base. 

met Eric out on the Draper hills for an easy out and back after work

Easy with a mile of diagnols 

did some track k's x 6 with 400 reco. nice crew out at wmh

draper hills after work. solo Yolo..thought a bunch about my dad today...6 years ago i closed his eyes and watched him breathe his last breath.

Easy 6 on base..solo

Solo cut down tempo at hefner solo in the dark. 

shuffled around base

did a solo out and back on some dirt roads out at Draper. picked it up a bit on the way back

easy run at ewp after evening services.

Met up with the higher ground group at bishop track and did the michigan workout..had a nice crew out. this was the first time i'd ran this workout..really liked it.

... I blew his doors off coming down the last 100m

My workout was as follows.

1 mile - track 4:59

1 mile- tempo on road 5:33

.75 mile track 4:01

1 mile tempo road 5:33

.5 mile track 2:31

1 mile tempo road 5:34

.25 mile track  1:09 to finish.

easy miles on base

slow and easy with Bruce and Jimbo some.

did a solo tempo out at hefner lake...got rained on and shoes got heavy and i got tired..slowed the pace down to low 6'z and called it good. 

12- work

7 after work

ran around wmt

did a easy lap on base.

did a run with ok runner around campus

easy miles on base

TNT - Southmoore track 

8x400 with 200 recovery gearing up for the annual Brookhaven 5k Saturday.

solo half at work..

met ean after work for a wet 8 on the river.

solo easy on base

jogged Brookhaven course forward and back

Brookhaven report in a bit.

solo recovery miles on dirt.

met up with Nate at lake draper for a progression/up pace long run

Quick 6 on base

easy laps at ewp

easy miles on base

am- run easy miles on base

pm - strava stealin and a small workout with blake and roger at bluff creek. j-hat for some easy miles...finished a few easy on the trail.

got out a little later easy miles on base.. Sweat off some lbs today..

Met J-hat out at Louies for a loop'n the lakes..we went out easy and picked up Ean about 10 miles in and I took off about 1/2 way with a quicker pace. felt in control and pretty easy the rest of the way back. had a head wind almost the rest of the way back. First cool off was really nice. Didnt hardly have to take any water in. 

Smashed my mileage PR. May hop back out this even to round the number off.

easy miles at ewp after church

slow and easy solo on base

did a small solo workout that Roger passed on to me 3 wks out from marathon..20 x 200/200 easy on the ends

easy miles and core work with higher ground crew out at bishop.

easy miles on base..first time in a long time i've gone over 10 miles without a water break. 

ran a few with eric after work on the dirt roads out at draper

went out to Hefner for a tempo after a failed attempt at a nap after work. feeling like i've got a cold or some allergy problems setting up in my throat. was stuck in 6 min pace 

ready for some cool dry air to head this way.

easy miles at and a cr steal from ean out and about in Norman

had a 20 miler in mind but cut it short due to a bunch of snot in my head and yakking

did an up pace run with nate after church on the dirt roads..still a bunch of crud in my head

out and back on the okc river...did 4 with andrew, ean and eli.

paced Brett out on the grass track for 12 X400's

easy miles on base

Met up with Arya and Nate for a 10 mile tempo around Lake Hefner...Windy and warm...was hoping to get a good dry cool air tempo in before heading out to St George but didn't get a weather break. Looks like next week we will finally have some cooler temps rolling in. Its really hard to have faith in what you've done in the summer at slower paces will pay off when the cool air gets here. Hopefully the mountain air and down hill will pay big dividends.

Easy afterwork miles on a old closed road out at Lake Draper.

did a moderate pace run around Hefner..had to take back one of my CR's Ean stole..cool watching all the world championship tri guys finish up.

easy out and back with Blake and Roger

easy taper miles on base

little grass track tuning. 1/4's 

Sophie miles around the hood

easy miles with Sophie

did a 1.5 mile out and back down in snow caynon. WOW all the beauty to be seen. This was my first trip to Utah. The mountains- rock formations were wonderful to see. I had to stop several times just to take it all in.

This was my first trip to Utah and hopefully the beginning of many more. The setting is absolutely breathe taking. I woke up at 3:15 jumped in the shower quickly and proceeded to get my racing attire on. I noticed that I forgot to pack band-aids so I took and used some duct tape that I had bought to tape my gu's to my water bottles just so happen to have some American flags on them.( boy howdy they were fun taking off ..but they worked)

I made my way down to the gas station and bought a big ol cup of coffee for the bus ride up. I sat down with a dude from St Petersburg FL his name was Charles Ryan. We hit it off well and talked the entire way up. This was his 2nd STG and he pretty much knew what to expect. I hung out with him for a while and decided to head over to the elite corral and try to meet some of the frb guys that I never met.  

I used the port and came out and sat down for a bit and recognized Riley and Ben as they came into the corral. I gave them a wave and met them and chatted for a bit. I also met Fritz and Scott. I hung out and shadowed Ben and Riley till gun time. Two super nice guys that have really been putting it a lot of hard work. I actually called Riley to win at STG on Strava a few weeks back. 

I chatted with Scott just before the gun and decided to run with him on the first half. We wanted to go through about 1:15-1:16. We went through the first mile right at 5:50 but slowed to 6:10 on the 2nd mile. I almost twisted my ankle real good in a wake up rut cut in the middle of the road. I was very cautious after that when hitting tangents.  After the first 3 miles I could tell my breathing was off  (I think due to the altitude) and Scott took off at the first water stop where I slowed to get my bottle that I actually never got. The rest of the water stops were spot on..they actually used walkie talkies to communicate and someone was standing out holding my nuun for me to take... I tried not to panic so much knowing the big downhill to come on the backend. I really wanted to make it over the hills without redlining. 

I made it to Veyo and knew if I got over this hill it would be the worst part. It slowed me considerably and I tried not to pay too much attention to my watch. I got to half way and was concerned that the sub 2:30 might be out of my reach with the clock at 1:17:50. 

I told myself to just trust in my training and it was still possible. I let loose pretty good about mile 15. It was really weird to look down at the pace in the middle of a marathon and see the pace going faster than my 5k pace. I was feeling pretty good so I just continued on. I passed several guys there at Snow Canyon and finally caught a couple more down on the final 10k. 

I was feeling really strong on the last 10 till about the last mile with about .5 to go I turned down toward the finish line and was so ready to be done. The road coming into the finish was cracked and a bit uneven and it really bothered me. 

I came across the finish line knowing I had a PR which really felt good. A lot of the  leaders were standing around chatting and I asked Riley how he did and he was pretty excited and rightly so. He told me that he missed the record by a few seconds but he had a huge PR and Ben did as well. I congratulated Scott for winning the masters and made my way for a quick massage. 

After my massage I had to get my stuff and book it to the hotel, shower and get out of there by 11 checkout time. I forgot to check and see if I had won anything in the early bus drawing and tried to go back down to see but failed to find a parking place close enough to get out of there for my 1:30 flight. 

I also didn't make it to the awards but talked to a woman that told me they would mail it to me.

I made my flight home but didn't get to eat anything till about 6:00 pm Oklahoma time. I did manage to eat a few cashew packets and pretzels from the race. I really wasn't too hungry after anyway.

Had a great time and felt fortunate to meet some really nice folks.

met Roger and Blake out at Hefner for an easy jog around the lake. nice weather out. race recap with runnin buds

Easy miles with Jesse

easy solo miles around base

easy 8 on base

easy miles on a muggy windy day

met Ean at EWP for some easy miles..he's heading up to KS for a marathon today

Met Nate for some miles out at Hefner on this fine fall weather day.

was running late due to not setting my alarm clock..met up with Blake, Nate, and Roger on the Landrunners course. It was kinda hilly. Legs felt pretty good. 

Went out to Draper for a solo SS run on the road. Had the S wind in my face  about 10mph the whole way but temps were nice. decided to do an on off mile back to the car and picked up a few quicker miles with the aid of the wind.

PM- met Lance out at Draper and doubled on some dirt.

Went out to the Grass track and decided to go at an easier pace than Aaron and Amanda..did a mile with them and ran the rest with Joe just under 6min pace. Body still tired.

easy miles at work

did a solo up pace run at work.

did a solo tempo after work around lake hefner...Lovin the cool air.

easy run around on base with a big fat full of pizza stomach 

easy solo draper dirt road run. time on feet

pf 10 - am

easy 8 o&b on draper dirt. bettered my 119th Street hill PR

did a 6 mile solo progression at work

easy run with Jesse

after work tempo out at lake Hefner. big loop with easy miles on the ends

easy miles after work...Mary and the boys out for fall break...took some time to spend with them.

after work loop at hefner..jumped in 24 the hard way for a loop and walk a lap with Alan Countryman. 

early solo pf - 12 miler

Pub run with Ean, Aaron, Amanda, Scotty D and a big ole crew with OKRunner

grass track 5x400;800m;5x400

took and easy jog around the hood. started out with a Sophie mile and then dropped her back off at the house and took off for 7 more..About mile 6 I ran by an old dude out with his dog and on the way back up the street he asked me for help... he was walking his dog and couldn't find his way back home..I ended up guiding them home safe.

solo pf miles.

Headed up to Tulsa with some running bud's to run the Tulsa Run. Just happened to be the 4th year of the Master National Championship race. I ended up getting a comp and decided to race it and if anything else just use it as a tempo for the week. The weather was pretty much horrible with high heat and winds but I went into the race with no expectations other than put in a good effort. The comp was really good and I went out at the gun with the lead guys till about mile 1. after that they separated from me about 10-15 sec a mile. We had an out and back from miles 3-5 roughly and you could see where you stacked up. I was about 20 sec behind the actual turning point and noticed Greg Mitchell had made his move. He was a past champ that basically ran away from everyone. He was also the favorite to win and rightly so. Gardiner and David Angell were running together maybe 5 sec behind Mitchell at that point. When I made the turn I saw a 50 yr old dude James Jackson from Tx about 10-15 sec behind me. I basically ran the rest of the race solo in no man's land with plenty of heat and hills to go around. I was ready to see the finish line. 

When I finally made it in I saw Gardiner hunched over and asked him how he did and he was really excited and said he won. He told me that Mitchell had blown up and he passed him about .5 mile out from the finish. Mitchell collapsed at the finish and had to get poked with an IV. 

Our team ended up getting 2nd place to Cal Coast again.  Looks like I've got plenty of motivation going into next year..3rd year in a row to get 4th overall and 3rd year in a row to get 2nd place team...

I think I felt kinda flat with the big taper...I think my body feels sharper going into a race with some miles on my legs.....Note to self...*****

Went over to Scott Smith's place for some burgers afterwards. And forgot to mention some running friends did some really remarkable things in the open race. Arya won the Top OK money for men and Amanda took 5th overall money and top OK women money home...with a PR to boot. and Aaron had a breakout race and finished not to far behind Arya. 

Solo run around Lake Draper. did some strides after i made it to the car.

AM - run with Danny on base..hit the new track for a few laps

PM - solo Draper dirt road run

8 - AM miles mostly solo till the last 2 with Jesse

10 - PM miles with Nate on draper dirt roads

Wow I met Eric D out at Draper Marina after work for a tempo and just before we took off I decided to make a donation the the port- a - pot and when I opened the door to my surprise I spotted a 45 Cal pistol sittin on the tp holder. I was shocked to see that it was chambered and ready to fire. I was mostly concerned with playground next to it and decided to take it back to my car and call the police.. As I exited and jogged over to my car my buddy gave me a strange look...ha 

I felt kinda weird jogging over to my car with a gun. We unloaded it and called 911 and waited like 30-45 min for the cops to show. I handed them over the gun and gave them my info and off we went for a tempo.. Eric went 3 and I continued on for 3 more..was really tired today and still feeling somewhat sick. 

6- solo pf Am miles

8- PM miles from draper marina did 4 with Eric

did a solo run out at lake draper. ran into a couple of out of town bikers that followed me over to the mt bike trails. they ended up tanking hard and i gave them directions to my car and when i made it back i gave them a ride down to Norman.. 2 middle age dudes that were here training at the postal training center in norman...Ronald from Cleveland and Charles from Chicago.  It was fun getting to know them on such a short run.

met Nate out at Draper for a hilly, drizzly, muddy road run.

easy mile till had some gi problemos

easy run with eric on the dirt roads after work

10 easy dirt road miles with J-Hat after work

met Ean and J-Hat down at the boathouse for a tempo..was warmer than i thought.