Nervous Fat Boyee

I am running the Haag Lake 50K this Saturday. I am pretty nervous as the longest run I have done was a 21 miler about 3 weeks ago. This course will be very muddy. Plus it is the course I broke my ankle on last year! I am just going to take it very easy and walk up all hills. I hope to finish in under 7 hours.

Biff

Yep that's my new name, Biff. I did a face plant on a long run in Ontario yesterday. Was out for 12 to 15 mile run and I tripped on something and went down face first. Tore up my right elbow and forearm pretty good. Got both palms, right knee and calf. Then had to run 6 miles back to the hotel and get ready for work. Lots of blood. Wondered when I was gonna fall on the pavement? Now I don't have too. Came up spitting rocks too. Oh well.

I Hate Winter!

Long time no post! Yeah not much to say. Got a cold so I didn't run the Redding marathon as planned. I'm bummed but glad I didn't. Wouldn't have been a pretty day for me.

So I went out and did a long run around Lake Oswego, Tigard, King City and Tualatin by myself. it was 30 degrees , clear skies and a bit of a breeze. I was worn out by 10 miles. Ended up doing 16.5 miles. Using my new Garmin GPS watch, its pretty sweet. Its the Forerunner 205 and with the motion based software the mapping is amazing. Even shows on Google earth sat photo what side of the street I am running on! And when I jay walk it shows that too! It was my Christmas present from my new black haired babe! Oh shes gonna whack me when she reads this! Well at least I felt good after the run. Had some coffee that really seems to help.

Oh yeah, if you have a Garmin watch go to www.motionbased.com you will really like it, and its free.

Long Cool One

Pole, Detour and I did a nice long run on Lief trail yesterday. Was a chilly 40 degrees and humid. We ended up doing 14 miles at Gails request. My legs got tired at about 10 miles due to running the marathon the previous weekend. Gail's fingers started hurting. Rick got sick. So all and all it was a good long run!

Ended up running at 1050 miles this year. Less than normal but I was out for over 2 months with a broken ankle so I feel pretty good about this year. Next year I weigh under 200 lbs by june and run at least 1500 miles. I would also like to do my first 50 mile race. That will be tough though.

USA Today Editorial

Oh by the way. Here is the link I wrote to USA Today newspaper a while back. It is against mandatory airline pilot retirement at age 65.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/12/safety_is_key_i.html

Chistmas Marathon

Second time I have run this race just south of Olympia. It was a good day for a race with clouds and 40 some degrees. I have not trained much in the last month since the Seattle Marathon so I was just going in with a goal to finish in 4:30 or less. Well that's what I finished in, 4:30:15! I ran much better than I thought I would until I bonked at about mile 22 or so. That's when I got sick to my stomach, and got quite dizzy. I tried not drinking allot of poweraid this time but more water and some E-caps. Didn't eat anything but a few pretzels and a jolly rancher but I had a bigger than average breakfast.

I settled into to a nice 9:30 pace and held that until about mile 20 when I slowed a bit. Over the last 4 miles I probably walked 75%. Was just glad to finish this one, my 13th marathon. Afterwards I felt pretty sick so I just changed and heading back home. Stopped for some burgers and a Latte which did make me feel better.

Last couple days I feel good with the just the normal quad soreness. Thinking the Redding Marathon in mid January but not sure if Gail can get off work that weekend.

SHE SAID YES!

Well I asked Ms Gail Anne to marry me at the Slug's dinner party last monday night. She was in shock and couldn't speak for a bit but finally gave me the answer I wanted to hear! I am the luckiest boy in the world. Thank you Detour!