Before we took off I met one or two people from my running class. We all commiserated that the “Cruz” kicked our butt. It seems that we were all quite sore afterwards. Ruth even mentioned to me that she has seen my blog. So here’s my shout-out to Ruth – Integrate parts of the Cruz into the weekly workouts from day one [in other words, use the track and do the calisthenics along with elements of the Cruz every 400m] so that when we get to the real Cruz we’ll be able to handle it better. OK, enough said about that. I headed out about 7 AM with Kent, Aaron and Richard from Bobby’s class for the 12-mile South Austin Ramble. There was also a guy from India that’s been running with us, but I don’t know his name. He’s very quiet. Terry is on vacation and Celeste is running a 30K trail race today so both of them weren’t there to run with me. For some reason deep within me I wanted to push this one. Soon the guy from India and I were ahead of most everyone. We got to the 6-mile turn around point at Salem Hill Road, and headed back. It was a nice feeling passing the crowd, but soon we had to wait for a train, and a mile or two later they caught up with us. I was slowing down, and their young legs just seem to do that. So I let the guy from India run on ahead, and soon he was out of sight. I kept up with Kent, Aaron and Richard and we finished in 1:51 or about 9:15 per mile. We were not running at a conversational pace, but sometimes you just have to push it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before we took off I met one or two people from my running class. We all commiserated that the “Cruz” kicked our butt. It seems that we were all quite sore afterwards. Ruth even mentioned to me that she has … Continue reading