God Bless Fort Benning 5K

I noticed that the God Bless Fort Benning 5K information is available. Does anyone know about the age groups? Are they 10-year or 5-year?

Not too sure if I can make that one, since I have to work that Saturday, but I'll be there if I can find a way.

Saturday

49° this morning when I got to the Riverwalk at 6am. Met Jack there, who I'd done some runs with before his Twin Cities marathon. Ran 5 miles with Jack, then continued to my turnaround point at Fort Benning, and met up with one of the Tennessee Tech football coaches who's in town (they play Auburn today in football). He is training for the St Jude Memphis Marathon. He had been clicking off 8:00 miles until he joined me for the 7.5 miles back to Rotary Park. He continued on, since he was running 20 this morning and I was only doing 15. I think he also sped up a little :-)

He slowed down for me, but we still averaged 8:40 miles for that 7.5 miles... so for me it was kind of hard. My half-marathon time today was 2:01:02, which is not too bad for a training run in my case. I've had faster, but normally it's a couple minutes slower than that.

But anyway, we were talking about the Olympic Marathon trials, which were this morning, and he knew Ryan Hall. Ryan Hall kicked it in the trials this morning, running a record qualifying time. Ryan Hall just seems like a great guy, as does Brian Sell, who came in 3rd. Brian works 20 hours a week in the Home Depot Garden Center when he's not running. It's a pretty cool outcome and I hope it gets people jazzed about the Olympic marathon.

So for me, a nice morning's run & good people to run with. Can't ask for much more than that!

Friday

Decided to lift weights this morning instead of run, so I went to the gym and it was CLOSED! I guess the guy who opens it overslept. So now my whole day is in turmoil...maybe I can get away at lunch, and then run tonight. Hmmmm.

Planning to do 16 miles on Saturday.

Thursday

I revamped my whole morning alarm routine: clock radio, blackberry, treo... all 3 were set, and it worked. The alarm on a Blackberry Curve is very loud, by the way. The effect of all 3 of them was like waking up in a clock factory. Left the house at 4:15 am, walked .2 miles (warming up),ran 7.7 miles, back home by 5:40am to feed dogs, wake everyone, iron my clothes etc. And take a shower :-)

I'll probably get to the gym at some point today to do the leg extensions & hamstring curls. They seem to be helping the vague knee pain I've been experiencing the past few weeks. I'll do some ab and lower back exercises while I'm there. I've been doing the Crossfit ham-glute situps (4 sets of 20+) M-W-F in between bench sets, then I do the bicycle crunches (3 sets of 100) T-Th-Sa.

Beginning bodyweight for November 2007: 178 lbs

Wednesday

How is it possible to sleep through 2 alarms????

Weights @ lunch; 2.5 mile run

Last post for October 2007. 153.6 miles total running, 37.5 miles walking