Some of you know that I challenged my Hardy Breed pal Dan B. to a duel at the Sizzling Mile the other day.
This is where I issued the challenge.
This is Dan's write-up.
And this is Jason's.
There are links to pictures and they tell a nice story of the race.
Enjoy!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
SIZZLING!
I've been pretty bad about posting the last few weeks but I've been busy with my grad. school class, working around the house and getting ready to start my new job as the Radiography Program Director at Richland Community College in Decatur.
I've been running pretty consistently, four days a week for about 24 miles. I get two easy days of five to six, a tempo or track session and an eight mile long run. After tonight I think I'm going to step up to ten mile long runs and faster speed days.
Tonight I ran the Sizzling Mile at the SHG track. I was in heat eight with the 5:00 to 5:30 people. As I was warming up I thought maybe sub-5:30 was a little ambitious of me to attempt what with my injuries of late. The hamstring is great and hasn't bothered me for about a month.
I challenged Dan from Hardy Breed to a duel and he accepted. When we lined up on the waterfall I took the position closest to the outside and out of traffic. When "go" was yelled I stayed outside, clicked my watch at the 1600 meter start line in 2.09 seconds, and waited until the pack strung out on the backstretch of the first lap. Joy and I were together and at 200 I was in dead-last with Joy a half-step ahead. We hit 400 in 1:20.90 (1:22.99) and I took the lead from Joy, picked off one or two runners and worked my way up behind the main pack a few seconds ahead of us. I hit halfway in 2:44.44 with a 400 split of 1:21.45.
I decided to start racing at the half and put down a hard surge the next 200 to catch, pass and gap the pack I was chasing. Dan was leading that pack and I passed him right at the 1000 mark. I hit 1200 4:04.45 with a 1:20.01 third lap and gave one last, long dig in the gun lap.
Things got a little muddled the last 400. I think I passed one or two more people but Carl B. caught and passed me on the last corner and a skinny little 15 year-old nipped me at the line. I guess that is karma's way of getting me back for sprinting down the 12 year-old a month ago.
I ran the last lap in 1:17.11 for a total time of 5:21.56, unofficial. My official time was 5:21.85 and I finished 12th in my heat of about 20. Dan finished a few places back in 5:27.60 and Joy finished in 5:28 high, I think. Our heat was won with a time of 4:56.
If you subtract my 2.09 seconds from waterfall to 1600 meter start I ran the high school mile in 5:19.76. That feels pretty nice.
In a nostalgic note for Nate, I ran into our old friend Clint L. He brought one of his runners down from Peoria, she won the women's division in 5:18. It was nice seeing you Clint!
I am going to shower and hit the sack.
I've been running pretty consistently, four days a week for about 24 miles. I get two easy days of five to six, a tempo or track session and an eight mile long run. After tonight I think I'm going to step up to ten mile long runs and faster speed days.
Tonight I ran the Sizzling Mile at the SHG track. I was in heat eight with the 5:00 to 5:30 people. As I was warming up I thought maybe sub-5:30 was a little ambitious of me to attempt what with my injuries of late. The hamstring is great and hasn't bothered me for about a month.
I challenged Dan from Hardy Breed to a duel and he accepted. When we lined up on the waterfall I took the position closest to the outside and out of traffic. When "go" was yelled I stayed outside, clicked my watch at the 1600 meter start line in 2.09 seconds, and waited until the pack strung out on the backstretch of the first lap. Joy and I were together and at 200 I was in dead-last with Joy a half-step ahead. We hit 400 in 1:20.90 (1:22.99) and I took the lead from Joy, picked off one or two runners and worked my way up behind the main pack a few seconds ahead of us. I hit halfway in 2:44.44 with a 400 split of 1:21.45.
I decided to start racing at the half and put down a hard surge the next 200 to catch, pass and gap the pack I was chasing. Dan was leading that pack and I passed him right at the 1000 mark. I hit 1200 4:04.45 with a 1:20.01 third lap and gave one last, long dig in the gun lap.
Things got a little muddled the last 400. I think I passed one or two more people but Carl B. caught and passed me on the last corner and a skinny little 15 year-old nipped me at the line. I guess that is karma's way of getting me back for sprinting down the 12 year-old a month ago.
I ran the last lap in 1:17.11 for a total time of 5:21.56, unofficial. My official time was 5:21.85 and I finished 12th in my heat of about 20. Dan finished a few places back in 5:27.60 and Joy finished in 5:28 high, I think. Our heat was won with a time of 4:56.
If you subtract my 2.09 seconds from waterfall to 1600 meter start I ran the high school mile in 5:19.76. That feels pretty nice.
In a nostalgic note for Nate, I ran into our old friend Clint L. He brought one of his runners down from Peoria, she won the women's division in 5:18. It was nice seeing you Clint!
I am going to shower and hit the sack.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Top-10 5K times since my comeback.
1. 19:02 - Polka Pace Race, 2007
2. 19:25 (twice) - Scholastic Challenge and Jingle Bell Run, 2007
4. 19:31 - I CARE for Residents, 2008 (winna!)
5. 19:35 - Polka Pace Race, 2006 (1:08 PB at the time, from 20:43)
6. 19:45 - Jingle Bell Run, 2006
7. 19:47 - Premier Bank, 2007
8. 19:54 - Scholastic Challenge, 2008 (out-sprinted a 12 year old, ALMOST vomited)
9. 19:57 - Premier Bank, 2008
10. 20:12 - Run For Hungry Children, 2008 (vomited)
It will be a good season if I can drop under 20:00 a few more times to get that 20:12 out of my top-10. I will also be happy if I can get to 100% and at least put a scare into that #1 time. This season has been so up-and-down. At least my times have been consistent.
2. 19:25 (twice) - Scholastic Challenge and Jingle Bell Run, 2007
4. 19:31 - I CARE for Residents, 2008 (winna!)
5. 19:35 - Polka Pace Race, 2006 (1:08 PB at the time, from 20:43)
6. 19:45 - Jingle Bell Run, 2006
7. 19:47 - Premier Bank, 2007
8. 19:54 - Scholastic Challenge, 2008 (out-sprinted a 12 year old, ALMOST vomited)
9. 19:57 - Premier Bank, 2008
10. 20:12 - Run For Hungry Children, 2008 (vomited)
It will be a good season if I can drop under 20:00 a few more times to get that 20:12 out of my top-10. I will also be happy if I can get to 100% and at least put a scare into that #1 time. This season has been so up-and-down. At least my times have been consistent.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Happy 4th!
I woke up around 0515 today, let the dog outside, started the coffee pot and got my son out of bed as he decided he was going to wake up early today instead of sleeping until 0630 like he usually does.
I read the newspaper and drank my first cup of coffee as he watched "The Higgly Town Heroes" and "The Wiggles." About halfway through the Wiggles I fed him a bowl of strawberry yogurt and a waffle. After waking up Kim I left the house around 0630 and drove to Jacksonville.
I registered, ran a 1.5 mile warm-up with Rick, Rob and the Bionic Woman and did a bit of light stretching until the gun went off. The Bionic Woman and I ran together, which caused me to ask her if she was going too slow or if I was going too fast, and hit the mile in 6:37.04 which seemed a bit slow to us. We both picked it up and ran a few people down. I held onto her as long as I could but when we hit the two mile mark she was about five seconds up on me. I hit two in 12:56.28 with a 6:19.24 mile split.
With about a half mile to go Joy had built a 22 second lead on me and I was trying to catch three high school boys ahead of me. I caught one but he passed me right back and together we ran down one of the kids but neither of us could catch the last one and we crossed the finish line in 19:53, 19:55 and 19:57. Joy finished in 19:36 winning the women's race.
I ran from the two mile mark to the finish in 7:00.99 and finished ten seconds slower than last year and three seconds slower than at the Scholastic Challenge. Last year I ran 19:47 and was 22 seconds slower than Scholastic. I think that with a bit of speed work and a few long runs I will be in pretty good shape. The fact that I haven't run in my flats in my last two races is heartening.
The Sizzling Mile is in a few weeks and I am hoping to put a scare into the 5:20 barrier.
I read the newspaper and drank my first cup of coffee as he watched "The Higgly Town Heroes" and "The Wiggles." About halfway through the Wiggles I fed him a bowl of strawberry yogurt and a waffle. After waking up Kim I left the house around 0630 and drove to Jacksonville.
I registered, ran a 1.5 mile warm-up with Rick, Rob and the Bionic Woman and did a bit of light stretching until the gun went off. The Bionic Woman and I ran together, which caused me to ask her if she was going too slow or if I was going too fast, and hit the mile in 6:37.04 which seemed a bit slow to us. We both picked it up and ran a few people down. I held onto her as long as I could but when we hit the two mile mark she was about five seconds up on me. I hit two in 12:56.28 with a 6:19.24 mile split.
With about a half mile to go Joy had built a 22 second lead on me and I was trying to catch three high school boys ahead of me. I caught one but he passed me right back and together we ran down one of the kids but neither of us could catch the last one and we crossed the finish line in 19:53, 19:55 and 19:57. Joy finished in 19:36 winning the women's race.
I ran from the two mile mark to the finish in 7:00.99 and finished ten seconds slower than last year and three seconds slower than at the Scholastic Challenge. Last year I ran 19:47 and was 22 seconds slower than Scholastic. I think that with a bit of speed work and a few long runs I will be in pretty good shape. The fact that I haven't run in my flats in my last two races is heartening.
The Sizzling Mile is in a few weeks and I am hoping to put a scare into the 5:20 barrier.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Moldy Water and 4x400
Last night I decided to run a track workout to test the hamstring. I didn't have any pain after the Scholastic Challenge and I took it easy the week after when I was in Akron so I decided it was time to slowly increase the intensity of my training and try to salvage my season.
I ran an easy one mile warm up in my subdivision in 8:20 and then jumped into my car with my water bottle and drove to the middle school track. On the way to the track I discovered that my water bottle had mold in it. It was pretty gross.
I ran another mile of accelerations in 7:33 then took about two and half minutes to stretch out before starting my reps.
The goal was to run each rep in 1:26 with 400 meter recovery jogs between each repeat.
1:24.56 (2:15.01)
1:25.48 (2:16.86)
1:25.54 (2:16.72)
1:24.54 (2:17.35)
After my last recovery 400 I ran a cool down mile in 8:16 and went home for dinner.
This morning I headed out for a relaxed sic mile jaunt at 0430. I stretched out a bit and then ran splits of 8:43, 8:17, 8:24, 8:21, 8:02 and 7:54 for a total time of 49:41. I felt pretty good.
I'm going to take it easy tomorrow and maybe do a little yoga or some light calisthenics to loosen up the back and legs. Friday morning I am going to run the Premier Bank 5K in Jacksonville. I ran 19:47 there last year which was about 22 seconds slower than my time from the Scholastic Challenge. My goal is to beat that.
Next Monday I have a test meeting for my online Masters degree program. I'm going to test all my software to make sure I can attend class without any problems on July 14th. With any luck I will be completing my classes for my Masters degree in Education through the University of Illinois in June of 2010.
I ran an easy one mile warm up in my subdivision in 8:20 and then jumped into my car with my water bottle and drove to the middle school track. On the way to the track I discovered that my water bottle had mold in it. It was pretty gross.
I ran another mile of accelerations in 7:33 then took about two and half minutes to stretch out before starting my reps.
The goal was to run each rep in 1:26 with 400 meter recovery jogs between each repeat.
1:24.56 (2:15.01)
1:25.48 (2:16.86)
1:25.54 (2:16.72)
1:24.54 (2:17.35)
After my last recovery 400 I ran a cool down mile in 8:16 and went home for dinner.
This morning I headed out for a relaxed sic mile jaunt at 0430. I stretched out a bit and then ran splits of 8:43, 8:17, 8:24, 8:21, 8:02 and 7:54 for a total time of 49:41. I felt pretty good.
I'm going to take it easy tomorrow and maybe do a little yoga or some light calisthenics to loosen up the back and legs. Friday morning I am going to run the Premier Bank 5K in Jacksonville. I ran 19:47 there last year which was about 22 seconds slower than my time from the Scholastic Challenge. My goal is to beat that.
Next Monday I have a test meeting for my online Masters degree program. I'm going to test all my software to make sure I can attend class without any problems on July 14th. With any luck I will be completing my classes for my Masters degree in Education through the University of Illinois in June of 2010.
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