Merry Christmas

Just want to wish all my family and friends a Merry Christmas.

Also a great way to track Santa can be found at this site:

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm

Random Musings

So it has been about two weeks since my last post, and you ask "So Tim what has been going on?" Well let me tell ya...

- I am out of all of my fantasy football leagues. What a bummer. Next year I think I am dropping back down to two leagues as three is just too much to keep track of. My brother, however, whom I invited into one of my leagues and helped out with draft information is now in the Super Bowl. On one hand I am happy and proud, on the other I think he is a little punk. Just kidding.

- I am officially injured as the doc told me no running for two weeks. A tear is slowly running down my cheek while I am secretly smiling on the inside.

- The Toadies rock.

- The newly redesigned Austin Music Hall officially sucks. Where they did a great job removing the annoying pillars they did not really address the restroom issues, sightlines, congestion problems, etc. Way to drop the ball on that one. I am hoping when it is completely finished some of these issues will be addressed, but I am not holding my breath.

- I have never been a fan of roller coasters but let me tell you the Austin weather lately has surely been one. One day it is in the 70s the next in the 40s then another 70s then another 40s. Woohoo hang on. Nothing like it.

- Holy cow it is only one week until Christmas.

- Come on SP get off your butt and offer Carri the job already.

- It is hard to fill a post with just ramblings, especially if nothing exciting has happened.

- Congrats Triscuit for graduating. Or as I think your Dad would put it...finally graduating. I had a great time at your bash, as apparently you did to since you had to go nighty night at 8 PM.

- Happy Christmahanukwanzakah to everyone, or Happy Festivus for the rest of us, if that is how you roll.

Decker 20K Race Report

Is it possible to run more and still get slower? If so I think I have perfected it. At the beginning of all this training I was on pace to run a 10 mile race in 1:28, a few weeks ago I missed that by 5 minutes. Then yesterday my predicted time for a 20K was 1:51 and I finished at 2:07 a difference of 16 minutes. Hmm, I thought this training was supposed to be helping me.

Ultimately my goal is to PR in the 3M half marathon. Looks like I am gonna have to refocus over the next 8 weeks and start running more during the week. Bummer.

Anyway here are my splits for yesterday.

Mile 1- 9:45 with a pee stop
Mile 2- 9:38
Mile 3- 9:22
Mile 4- 9:36
Mile 5- 10:03 with a water stop
Mile 6- 9:46
Mile 7- 10:07 with a water stop
Mile 8- 10:09
Mile 9- 10:06 with a water stop
Mile 10- 10:51 many hills on this mile
Mile 11- 11:15 with a water stop
Mile 12- 11:59 with some walking

Additional splits

5K - 30:30.3, 9:48/mile
10K - 1:00:54, 10:03/mile
15K - 1:31:37, 9:59/mile
20K - 2:07:25, 10:22/mile

So my takeaways are...
1. Decker is a really hard course.
2. Considering the farthest I have run leading up to this was 10 miles, adding another 2.4 was pretty hard. This is evidenced by my crap times the final three miles.
3. It is not supposed to be 80 degrees in December.
4. Luckily I will be in town the next few weekends to do the long runs.
5. Is it cycling season yet?
5. The 3M is gonna be cake compared to this.