Since my last blog entry, I’ve run three more races. When you add in Thanksgiving, my son’s 8th birthday, and Christmas preparations, it’s been a busy few weeks. 11/14/09 – Team Nashville 10 Miler – 1:15:06 (7:31) – I ran the first three miles sort of fast, but I didn’t feel like pushing it. It [...]
On Saturday I ran three races. I primarily did it as a “stunt” because I’d never done three distance races in one day before, and I didn’t know anyone who had. The races and results were: Donelson-Hermitage Dash 10K @ 8am – 1st overall. 41:13 (6:38 pace). Halloween Hunt 5 Mile @ 11am – 60th [...]
I run for days like today. Coming off a hard weekend of running, I set a very satisfying 10K PR today. The entire race I felt like I was running my best. It hurt, of course, like a race should, but I felt like I ran right at my limits for cardio, leg strength, leg [...]
Yesterday (Father’s Day) was the inaugural running of the Nashville Beer Mile. Of the 19 people that pre-registered, 16 showed up and ran. That’s pretty amazing since it was 94 degrees, sunny, and humid! It was a scorcher! The official results are available at http://www.menees.com/beermile/Files/2009%20Results.txt. They’re also listed on BeerMile.com, the Internet’s “official” repository of [...]
The 2009 Downhill @ Dawn Half Marathon was a fun and well-managed race where everything went right for me. This was probably my smartest race ever, and all the other little things fell into place too. The weather was perfect, aid stations were exactly where I needed them, the course had a net downhill gain, [...]
I’m hosting a beer mile on Father’s Day. Read all about it at http://www.menees.com/BeerMile/. If you’re a local runner, come join us!
All the races I had targeted for my Spring ’09 Racing season are over with now. The April races didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but May has been a good month. 4/11 Purity 10K – I sicked out of this race because I had the black plague, swine flu, or something awful [...]
The Bad News The 2009 Country Music Half Marathon officially kicked my butt. I was aiming for a 1:30, and I finished at 1:44. Yuck. I lost the 1:30 group by mile 5. I fell off PR pace by mile 10. After that I didn’t care about my time, except I felt obligated to finish [...]
Last weekend, my wife and I went to Union City, TN to visit my mom and dad. While there we ran the Union City Civitan Club’s Running For Prevention of Child Abuse 5K. We both had a good time and did well in the race.They don’t have a web site to post the results, so [...]
A few months ago I started a new website: NashDash.com. It contains a few running-related utilities that I’ve written when I couldn’t find versions I liked elsewhere online. Currently, it contains: Single-Result Age Grading, which gives detailed age grading information for a single race result. Multi-Result Age Grading, which gives basic age grading information for [...]
