No Run

Camped out at hospital.

No Run Because We Had A Baby!

I didn't run today because I got sidetracked a bit. We had a freakin baby!

Flash back Saturday evening I knew my wife was having a rough time of it. We both wanted her to hold out at least until the 18th of November. That's when mother in law arrives in town. It was 9 in the evening and we were debating whether or not to go in to the hospital. If you have ever been through a pregnancy you know that you never want to go to the hospital and get sent back home. So we waited and timed the contractions for the next few hours. I asked my wife if she thought it was going to happen tonight and she said no. I was a bit nervous because the contractions were saying otherwise. So while my wife rested I started gathering up all our preg gear and packing them in the car. Mentally I wasn't really ready yet but I was definitely anxious. Then it happened. The contractions were very intense and I told her to call the doctor and ask if we should come in. Eventually we were in contact with a nurse and she said go ahead and come on in. At this time we knew it was undeniably the correct call so we packed our son and off we went. We dropped our son off at a friend's house and I made the dreadful panic drive to the hospital.

It doesn't help that we live about 35 minutes from our hospital of choice. The way my wife was going I thought she was going to break her water in our car and have the baby right there. All sorts of things ran across my mind, like what if a cop tried to pull me over?Would I stop? Or would I call 911 and tell them to tell the cop my wife is having a baby so just hang tight and be a police escort for a sec. Or maybe it would go down like a weird OJ police chase. Or maybe the officer pulls me over and gives me hard time while my wife has a baby. All this crazy stuff was going on in my mind on this crazy drive. Let me tell ya, the adrenaline was pumping. I had to tell myself repeatedly to pull myself together and just drive. It's just so darn hard to do that when your wife is screaming and writhing pain.

Eventually we arrive at the hospital and get settled in. She ends up delivering the baby successfully and all things are good in the world! There was one funny moment though (maybe a bit gory). The doctor has me cut the umbilical cord. No problem, I've done this before. So I cut it and blood squirts EVERYWHERE! It squirts on the doctor, on the nurses, on me (my face, my arm, my shirt, my phone), on the floor, on the medical equipment, on the wall, and on the ceiling? There is no doubt that if I were the queasy type I would have been on the floor passed out. But I'm not. So therefore I was only shocked but amused. So here is a tip for you guys. If what I just said grossed you out then don't take the chance and cut the cord. By the way, we ended up having a healthy baby boy.

Long Run 15.11 Miles

Mile 1	7:50
Mile 2	7:16
Mile 3	7:05
Mile 4	6:56
Mile 5	6:49
Mile 6	6:54
Mile 7	6:40
Mile 8	6:33
Mile 9	6:26
Mile 10	6:25
Mile 11	6:26
Mile 12	6:01
Mile 13	5:55
Mile 14	5:44
Mile 15	7:57
Mile 16	8:09
Total Average Pace:	6:45

I ran this one with Kenyan Way. We were supposed to negative split the run but I think we took it to the extreme. Towards the end Sam, Geoff, and I were really moving. Our route ended at Mile 14 but I decided to tack on a 1.11 mile cool down at miles 15 and 16. I told Sean about our run and the speed we were running at the end and his first words were “Why?". To be honest with you I don’t really have a good explanation. I just did a workout yesterday and so this probably wasn’t the best thing to do, but it happened. I have a light day tomorrow, 6 miles easy, and I definitely will run it SLOWWW.

Sean and Luis are going to San Antonio to compete in tomorrow’s Rock ‘n Roll half. Good luck to them and all the other HTowners heading over there tomorrow!

3x2 Mile Workout – 10 Miles Total

3 Mile Warm Up

5 Strides

3x2 Mile (Goal 5:25-5:30 Pace)

• 10:59 (5:29)
• 2 Minutes Rest
• 11:00 (5:30)
• 2 Minutest Rest
• 10:58 (5:29)

1 Mile Cool Down

I had very little sleep last night, hardly any food, and my morning was a very busy one. When I finally was able to come out and run I really didn’t feel up to it. I debated whether to just skip the workout and just do a 9 mile easy run. But to me that seemed even more unappealing than the workout. So I decided to do the workout even though I wasn’t feeling up to it. Before I started my run I made sure I put my Garmin on a certain display setting, since I had issues with the one I used last week(Didn’t trust it). When I started this week, there was no uncertainty about what I was running. Immediately I jumped into 5 minute pace, slowed to 5:15 and eventually finished the repeats at 5:30 pace. I’m convinced that there was no way that I was running faster today than I did last week but yet there was a 6 second difference in pace. It just goes to show you that the Garmin isn’t the end all be all.

8.72 Miles Easy

Mile 1	7:27
Mile 2	7:17
Mile 3	7:20
Mile 4	7:17
Mile 5	7:13
Mile 6	7:07
Mile 7	7:00
Mile 8	7:04
Mile 9	6:58
Total Average Pace	7:12

Still tired from the hill workout Tuesday. Also took it a little easier because of the workout tomorrow, 3x2 mile 2 minutes rest.

www.RankTheRunner.com

In case you have not heard. A new web site popped up over the last few weeks. This web site is focused on ranking the runners in the Houston area at various distances. Currently it has rankings at 5k, 8k, 5mile, 10k, 10mile, half-marathon, 25k, 30k, marathon distances. The user interface is very simple and intuitive. Click on the rankings button and it will pull up a list of the top 5k runners in the Houston area. Clicking on the hyperlinks at the top will switch the rankings to different distances.

Each runner listed is actually a hyperlink that takes you to another page that lists all of the races the runner has run during the current year.

The site also lists the results of most of the chip timed races in the area and also a few hand timed as well. If you are looking for upcoming races to race in, "ranktherunner" has that as well. Already the site has over 70,000 race results and growing.

Now who would actually take the time and effort to put this out there? It has to be another runner right? Yes, Indeed. If you guessed Sean Wade then you are correct. He's actually thought about this for quite a while and brought the idea to fruition recently. Take some time to check it out. Go ahead look yourself up :-)

White Mens Shoes

I didn't know Puma had a white mens version. They look pretty cool. I googled around for a black mens version but strangely enough couldn't find any.