Skyline 5k 

Time - 20.18
Pace - 6.32

This race I had already ran in 2011.  It was one of the only races last year that haunted me the past year.  This race this year actually exerised some of thoses demons.  One of the things that I truely enjoyed about this year was the fact that I lined up way closer to the start line.  With alittle bumping and shoving at the beginning of the race.  I really felt at ease through much of the race until I got up to the the 2 and a half mile place when I started to wear thin on energy I hard for this race.  I actually didnt eat or drink anything before this race.  I also ran 2.2 miles before hand, with alittle warm up with Ben.  Overall, I felt ready for this race.  Happy with the time, better than last year.  Still looking to knock 17 seconds off my time for my goal time of being under 20 minutes. 

Wow it has been a long time.

It has been a very long time sense ive even posted on this blogger.  Geezz im horrible.  But i still havent stopped running.  So to update, im not only a runner im now a Ultra-Marathoner.  Something that some that run Boston dont even attempt.  I am way more speedy than what i was when i posted on this blog last.  My 5k times tend to range around 19.33 to 22.35.  Been hard as of late.  But now im also placing in my age group alot of times which i always thought would be a foreign subject to me.  So starting from here.  When i finish a race ill update on my experence of this race.  Help fuel my interests by following my blog.  I promise ill keep it up.

Back to some Serious Training!!!

Its early morning Tuesday, and I just got a day off yesterday from running.  We are now starting to work on getting ready for The Thunder Road Marathon in November of 2011.  With four half marathons ahead of us, the first one is going to be on March 12th.  The next about a month later being April 30th, which is "The Race for the Land"  half marathon.  I truely haven't decided what my next 5K should be, I've looked at a possible few in January or February.  My goal with any 5K now going forward will be to knock off almost four minutes off my usual time.  Which tends to be around 26 to 28 minutes.  I have to work on getting stronger and faster.  As easy as it might sound, I have a feeling it probably will not be.  I have also decided to discontinue my Blast from the Past series as no one truely reads my blog as it is.  When ever I have more readers I might continue it then. 

Its been a while

Well, Its been a while sense ive posted anything on my blog.  And it is because I focused alot on getting pass my half marathon and achieveing my goals.  In the time that ive been away, I managed to get my hands on the Nike Connect.  It is probably the best investment ive run across sense I started to run.  Anyway, I finished my first half marathon under two hours.  So even with me just enjoying the sights and sounds and being less interested in the time and pace I was running.  I was so happy to finish under that time.  Now comes 2011, and I have several goals that I want to achieve.

1 - Compete in 4 different Half Marathons.  Two Trail and Two Road
           Within theses Marthons I want to be under two hours in each one. 
2 - Compete my first Full Marathon.
3 - Do as many 5K races as possible.
4 - Do as many 10K races as possible.
5 - Do as many 15K races as possible.

The way I attend to achieve my goals with all the above is to train harder and work myself to the point that without a doubt I want to beable to finish a Full Marathon.  After 2011 it is all going to be about speed and increasing the time it takes me to finish each one.  As my total goal overall on a long standing is to beable to do a mile in 5 minutes flat by 2013 and qualify for Boston and NYC.  No telling if I would actually run in either.  Most likely if it is my Destiny.  Anyway this is Richard getting back to my morning workouts.  Thanks for reading up on me.

Saturday Half Run

Still being alittle sore im feeling alittle bit better.  But theres still pain.  I Do hope that i can get through it on Sunday's trail run.  For the week it brought my total to 25 miles.  Hopefully i can get higher as i get healther this week and next.  My next big run is the preview run on Saturday this week! Hope to have some fun.

Friday Workout

Well it wasnt bad, still had some soreness in my right inner thigh.  And im not feeling like i need to throw up any longer at the moment.  Hopefully its passed completely.  So I did about 3 miles yesterday.  Didnt want to put too much stress on my inner thigh and thats what im doing Saturday.  Just 3 miles and hope that i can do something with it on Sunday when i do trail running with Amy.  That should be about 8 miles in the woods. 

Not Exactly to Plan

Today is Thursday and yesterday was the hardest day i had to run for this past week.  I did not run on Wednesday with some soreness that creeped up on me.  So far this week ive run 8.5 on Sunday, 9 on Monday, Tuesday zero, and Wednesday 3.....not a walk in the park to say the least.  I am also bothered by some soreness on my rump which is always odd with the combo of both the feelings i had i am going to try to power on through with this struggle and pop out 8 miles tonight and hopefully take a much needed break on Friday with Saturday doing a short run before i do my 13 miles on Sunday with Amy.