tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88666615227980275172024-03-19T08:03:43.143-05:00I'd Rather Be RunningMy adventures unto 26.2G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-51286899915972257672007-09-15T12:26:00.000-05:002007-09-15T12:32:46.662-05:00Faster than public transportationI've notice that I'm getting more and more out of shape.
I recently bought a new pair of Brooks running shoes for a literal steal off of Sierra Trading Post. These are the first pair of brooks I've ever owned [really]. They're fairing okay for now, but it may not be best to ask someone who is trying to get back into running after a seven month sabbatical from it [with sporadic runs here and G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-65134408772480779332007-08-17T08:46:00.001-05:002007-08-17T08:46:37.974-05:00Run/WalkTwilley in PhillyG. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-64915912807479414932007-06-10T11:11:00.000-05:002007-06-10T11:17:27.491-05:00I forgot...That is, I forgot how good it feels to run...
Mapmyrun has a new format, and Gene likes it.
You can check out today's 3 miler here.G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-38385945668503519412007-03-19T08:53:00.000-05:002007-03-19T08:55:45.587-05:00Getting back on track...You can check out my run here.
First serious run in a month + awful allergies = a lot of phlegm and me almost throwing up in front of dreamland bbq.
I had to start back sometime.
25:03
2.83 miles.G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-54596622862897924412007-02-14T06:04:00.000-06:002007-02-14T06:32:05.420-06:00And the winner is...You can check out the full results here.
If you're unable to tell by the picture, that's a Mohawk. So, now I can say that I have 26.2 under my belt. I walked away feeling [generally] good about marathons - about the experience of being in one, the instant camaraderie you have with other runners, and cool gifts and food people lavish on you as you run and finish the race.
There were 2,457 half G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-45242053513773075142007-02-04T20:04:00.000-06:002007-02-04T21:06:02.866-06:00Counting down...The Mercedes Marathon is one week away.
In celebration of my first running of a Marathon, I've decided to throw up a special vote. You, the reader, are entitled to help me choose what kind of haircut I'll have on race day. Now, to make this as democratic as a vote in our very own Republic, I've narrowed the choices down. You can vote here!
I've also put a voting link @ the top of the page. DropG. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-54458446753895218342007-01-25T22:33:00.000-06:002007-01-25T22:48:09.273-06:00Tonight's run...
I ran a little over 5 yesterday morning.
Here's tonight's run.
Nothing extraordinary. I ran through Homewood. I ran over Red Mountan, past the rear end of Vulcan, god of the forge. A note: city folk are much more friendly than the people who are driving on Hwy 75 between Oneonta and Center Point. Well, most are...except for the drunks yelling at me from Zydeco.
At the very least, drunkenness G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-51427606389263703462007-01-21T20:29:00.000-06:002007-01-21T21:23:37.622-06:00The sort of things that make you hate the country...Yesterday's run was supposed to be longer, but I just got tired of it all.
You can check it out here.
I got tired of the roads without shoulders.
I got tired of the unending straightness of the roads.
I got tired of the dearth of scenery.
I got tired of the rednecks who kept honking their horns at me.
So, I called Laura to come and pick me up. By the time she arrived, I had only run about 17.6 G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-2074541057335982472007-01-13T17:03:00.000-06:002007-01-13T23:26:49.291-06:00True to the blog's title...You can check out my run by clicking the picture to the right.
I know it's been some time since I've posted, but [fyi] I've definitely been doing more running than blogging. Last week was my "easy" week, so my three runs were 6 or 7 miles, depending on the day. This week I ran 5 miles on Tuesday morning, 7 miles on Thursday morning, and [accidentally] 20 miles today.
I've noticed that there areG. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-75518902627300934092006-12-26T22:31:00.000-06:002007-01-12T21:10:47.853-06:00Short run...Not much notable about tonight's run.
For some reason, I've been very sleepy during the evening hours [I'm talking about the period in between dinner and morning]. I actually slept from 6:00pm to 9:40pm tonight...then I woke frustrated because I didn't run. That said, I decided to go by my runner's world schedule and run 2 miles tonight [since my friend hasn't sent me a tweaked schedule as of G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-91436805717846257232006-12-23T20:03:00.000-06:002006-12-23T20:31:13.503-06:00More than I've ever run...Check out my run here.
With the assumption that I will increase mileage every weekend, I guess I could really wear out the title, but I'll only use it this once. Tonight's run was so much different than last weeks. I only walked about two blocks out of the whole run...which was 15.07 miles. I burned more calories in one run than some people burn all day [that would be 2300].
There is a good andG. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-90376835553407777142006-12-21T23:06:00.000-06:002006-12-21T23:12:41.657-06:00Wet and Rainy...I didn't really time myself tonight.
I'm guessing that I ran between 6 and 7 miles; I'm not altogether sure because I started talking to myself and I lost count of how many times I had run around UAB's track. If it was 14, then I ran 7 [I think] altogether.
Tonight was supposed to be speed work. I was supposed to run 3 1600m sets @ 7:35 [that's about a 7:35mile; 1600m = .98something miles..or G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-72079769291711055822006-12-19T20:04:00.000-06:002006-12-24T07:29:51.793-06:00Better...Check out my route here.
So here's the deal. My Runnersworld schedule told me that I should run 2 miles tonight [actually, last night, but last night I was too bust getting angry at Publix, where shopping was not a pleasure - another post for another blog]. A friend whose help I've enlisted in training [I've actually asked him to be my "Coach," and I hope that he is tweaking my schedule even as G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-63723580001515450762006-12-18T06:49:00.000-06:002006-12-18T19:19:52.868-06:00No love.Check out my route here.
My run on Saturday was supposed to be 13 miles.
I was really pumped about it too; it would be a day of firsts.
It would be the first time I would use gels during my training.
It would be the first time I would run 13 miles [practically a half marathon].
It would be the first time that I carried a pace chart [handwritten] while running.
It would be the first time I would G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-47138897690163951662006-12-11T20:11:00.000-06:002006-12-11T20:40:32.491-06:00Run hard.Check out my run here.
My legs have felt awfully tight when I started out tonight [probably because I didn't run for 5 days]. This, undoubtedly, made my first mile hard and slow. My first mile on this route is mostly uphill - I try to make a lot of them that way these days. The middle mile, however, was smooth with only a hump in the middle.
My first mile took almost 10 minutes. I ran my secondG. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-84504008832029493572006-12-09T19:21:00.000-06:002006-12-09T19:47:56.868-06:00My running is more consistent than my blogging...Check out Monday's run here.
Check out Friday's run here.
Running weeks go from Monday - Sunday [as Sunday, for most, is the big day - the day of Marathon], so I still have time for my last run of the week. This week was meant [by my training schedule courtest of Runnersworld.com] to be a short run week. After this week my long runs start increasing by twos rather than by ones [i.e. - my next G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-7058442643015202452006-12-02T13:03:00.000-06:002006-12-02T13:29:42.105-06:00Over 11 in MotownCheck out my run here. I’ve been doing my long runs on Sundays due to various circumstances [my preferred day, to be honest, is Saturday]. Today, Laura is working on some prints in Montevallo, so I decided to come down with her and pull off another long run at our Alma Mater. Today’s run, if you haven’t checked the link, was 11.12 miles. I’ve never run this far in my life [all at once that is]. G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-89476772399121621832006-12-02T08:04:00.000-06:002006-12-02T08:08:39.073-06:00Belated post: 5 milesI ran here on Tuesday morning.
It was nothing extraordinary [except that it was extraoridinarily warm for a November morning]. I ran an 8:20 pace, which is nearly what I should be running for my speed work day[3 miles @ 8:12 currently]. Felt good about the run, overall.G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-81309133021495920372006-11-27T22:43:00.000-06:002006-11-27T22:54:58.247-06:00Short RecapOn Thursday, I participated in the first annual Locust Fork Turkey Trot [put on my my sister in law and her cousin in law]. There were 13 in attendance. I think I did 6 miles, but it could be more. Sara is definitely much faster than I and really pressed my training pace.
Last night I did another 10 miler. You can check it out here. I call it "1 Hilly Run," because it seemed like I was running G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-3393809982140259002006-11-22T22:37:00.000-06:002006-11-22T22:56:06.541-06:00Just under 4[Check out my run here]
Someone told me that I really need to watch out for other people when I run in the city at night. A lot of my runs take me to the north side of town, which seems a little more forboding considering that there are no businesses [or relatively few] that are open there at night. There's some validity in that. When you take a look at the FBI's highest crime rates for cities, G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-24190077527358554602006-11-20T22:41:00.000-06:002006-11-20T23:08:47.832-06:00Neat sites...I haven't run tonight [I almost did, but figured it would be best to rest a little]. I thought I'd pass some stellar sites your way.
www.mapmyrun.com
Occasionally, you may see "Check out my run here," at the top of a run blog. The word "here" is actually a hyperlink to a map of where I ran that evening. I used to believe that mapmyrun overestimated my mileage, but Josh's wife, Amanda, said that G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-85300333525704848842006-11-19T22:59:00.000-06:002006-11-19T23:27:04.957-06:004 Encounters, 9 Miles, and a Bowl of Soup[You can check out tonight's run here]
While many of you were putting yourselves down for the night [possibly] I was finishing up a 9.15 mile run [tonight's pace was 9:38/mile]. The run didn't come easy [My wife and I had to do some pretty hard finagling to convince me to run...yes, my wife and I]. I decided to eat dinner before I went on my run - it's a habit I'm trying to train my stomach for.G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-19044139733074984422006-11-17T23:06:00.000-06:002006-11-17T23:17:35.841-06:00Like days of old...[You can see our run here]
Tonight was much different than runs of recent - I ran with a very attractive woman who also happens to be married [to me]. Laura hasn't been much for exercise since we've been back from South Korea [she's been somewhat sick since we've been back, but is gradually coming to health]. She hasn't run much at all, but she went 2.5 miles with me tonight @ 10min/mile!
G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-50421289803695811282006-11-14T21:35:00.000-06:002006-11-14T21:54:12.606-06:00Clean bill of health[I'm listening to Suddenly Everything Has Changed by The Postal Service]
My blood pressure was slightly [and strangely] high, but my doctor’s assistant told me that it wasn’t really worth worrying about. I was more worried [to be honest] about my weight – I weighed in at two bucks. I may start to watch what I eat a little more, may even cut back on the libations – I figure if I can run lighter, G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8866661522798027517.post-41904518164153915132006-11-11T10:43:00.000-06:002006-11-11T11:38:42.329-06:00Takin' it easy...I went 4 on Thursday night at about 8:52/mile. I had placed moleskin on the bottom of my foot- where the blister is - and later discovered that the moleskin is not supposed to go on my blister. Needless to say, I had some kind of time taking the ultra-adhesived product off the bottom of my blister.
The blood blister simply hasn't gotten better [but, it seems, hasn't really gotten worse either]G. Twilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342575304352820004noreply@blogger.com0