Robert

May 2008

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Mar 31, 2008

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Just recently returned from Iraq with the Army National Guard. While over there I participated in the Army Ten Miler and various other small races.  In Iraq I began logging my miles to have something to look back at. In my 12 months there I logged just over 500 miles.  May not be much but its a start on my end. 

Short-Term Running Goals:

San Diego Rock'n Roll Marathon, may be Tucson Marathon.

Long-Term Running Goals:

To make running a lifestyle not something you do when your young.  I want to be the "Grandpa" you see at various 5K's..

Personal:

Ok so Im in the Army National Guard, Paramedic as a civilian.  Previously a "Boarde Rat" from Douglas,I moved to Tucson in 1998 to go to school.  I graduated from the U of A in 2003 with a BS in Molecular and Cellular Bio and from Pima with an Associates in Paramedicine in 2006. I love outdoors stuff and Mariachi music.  I think that about somes me up in a nutshell.   

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We ran the Rilito River today it was very nice morning.  The tempo was a relaxed one but it was a nice 8 minute pace.  It was kind of good to see what that felt like, hopefully maintaing that pace for a marathon won't be to bad.

 

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push ups and situps along with our workout today.  We changed the route which gave us one more set of 40 pushups and 40 situps, oh and lunges as well.  That gave us a total of 6 times as well as a bit more mileage.

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Todays work out was a track workout.  It wasn't extremely bad it just sounded ugly.  We did 12 times 300m.at faster than 5k race pace with a 100m cool down.  After that we did 2 times 800 one at a fast pace (5K pace) and one slow cool down. It was definitely a workout.

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Six Miles today on BPR's Tempo run. We started with a decent pace. We were kinda confused on the mile points give or take a few yards but all in all I'm pretty sure we averaged a sub 8 pace.

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I participated in the Police Memorial Challenge today it was a lot of fun.  There were alot of different obstacles during this race.  I was glad I had done the Teusday runs with Blue Pants, with pushups and situps in between running, because it allowed me to enjoy the race more.  There were towers to climb, tunnels to crawl through, and a lot of pushups in  between.

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  Today we did our bootcamp workout we try to cover 4.5 miles with  6 sets of pushups, situps and lunges.  For some reason during my workout this morning I got this overwhelming sensation of weakness.  It was very hard for me to keep running much less try to keep up.  I'm not sure what was going on.

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Today was supposed to be a tempo run. I didn't run yesterday because I felt so weak. The  run started off really well.  Sub 8 minute miles, but after the 4th mile I started to get really weak agian.  The last two miles I really struggled I had to stop at least once.  I pushed through and finally finished.  I'm not sure what exactly was going on allergies may be change of weather or just a plain old bad week.

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Today we decided to do a long run to see how that felt for me.  When I heard that we were doing 12 miles.  I was skeptical for two reasons.  I hadn't ran that type of distance since I was in Iraq and because I had been feeling so weak for the past week.  We went for it anyway and took a nice easy pace.  I felt really good during the run and didn't start struggling until the last 2 miles.  Once we were done we stopped at the Brandi Felton Park, which to my relief had a small water park for kids.  At this moment I was so hot I turned into a kid and we took a good while playing in the water cooling down.  It was a lot of fun.

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We ran at 6 pm today.  It was supposed to be a slow run but was even slower due to the heat.  Its gotten a little to hot to run comfortably, we had to stop a couple of times for water.

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