3rd Annual Enshape Fitness Walk

I walked a little over a mile this morning with 100 or so of my fellow Entergy co-workers in our 3rd annual fitness walk. The walk was held in conjunction with Livestrong Day this year. Livestrong Army yellow t-shirts were sold with all the profits going to Livestrong. Breakfast burritos were also available for purchase after the walk with profits going to Livestrong.

I received an email from the Chicago marathon yesterday with the headline "The Countdown Is On: Only 6 Months Until the Bank of America Chicago Marathon". I could use the extra month of training coming off this Achilles tendonitis. I just hope all that extra water they are going to have this year is going to be there FIVE months from now.

Run from Skeeters

Ran with a small weekday group from Skeeters in Cochrans Crossing Shopping Center this evening. My legs were tight for some reason tonite, especially my left quad. I used The Stick before the run and stretched after. Soaked in cold water and all the ice from my ice maker when I got home. That's the closest I've come to an ice bath.

Thursday Social Run

Had a nice 6 mile run from Timberloch threw the Nature Trail looped this evening. Hung out with some of the Woodlands Fitters at Goosesacre on the waterway after. Will do some cross training with the lawn mower tomorrow moring then hit the road for a weekend in central Louisiana with my mom.

Run Powered by 180 Blue Energy Drink

I ran the woodlands pky/east panther creek/lake woodlands loop and then hit the waterway at lunch today. A co-worker gave me a couple of low calorie 180 blue with acai energy drinks to try a couple of months ago. I finally tried one today. Glad I did as I remembered that I forgot to eat breakfast this morning right as I started my run. I usually have instant oatmeal first thing when I get in to work but I somehow forgot to eat this morning. I did have a banana mid morning so wasnt running completely on empty.

Wet Shoes

I didn't realize how humid it was until I started running this evening. Got home and had to put the shoes in front of a fan to dry them out from my sweat dripping down into them. Gonna be an assembly line of drying shoes for the rest of the summer; I usually have at least 3 pairs of shoes in the rotation for this reason.

Nice Weekend Weather

After good weekday runs this week, I had 2 easy short distance runs Saturday and Sunday evening. My 26 miles for the week are where I should be training base mileage wise so I feel pretty good about that.
I worked the finish line area of the CB&I Tri Saturday morning. Its the best I've ever felt at a race finish line as I'm normally out running a race to get to the finish. My thoughts and prayers go out to the 51 year old Conroe man that died during the swim portion of the event exactly 6 months to the day that Ryan Shay died at the US Olympic marathon trials.
Looks like heat and humidity return this week. Happy running.

Thursday Evening Run

I had a good Thursday evening run. This has been a good training week; just need to wrap it up with decent weekend runs.