Thursday's Run

I ran a slow five miles on Lady Bird Lake this evening. I ran from the Mopac bridge to to the Congress avenue bridge on the south side of the lake. Then doubled back to the Pfluger Bridge and crossed to the north side of the lake. Over the next month or so I will have to get so I run to I35 on a weekly basis. The weather was warm but not too bad.

It was my first run with the new Garmin. It worked great, I did have some trouble uploading the files to Motionbased. I think the problem was on the Motionbased side however and not with my Garmin.

Long Easy Run At the Gym

I did a long easy run at the gym this evening. I ran for a hour, burned 550 calories and covered a little over four miles. For most of the way, I had the speed set at five MPH. Every ten minutes I would slow down for a drink of water, then for the last several minutes I set the speed up to six MPH.

Here is my heart rate for the run:

5 Mile Easy Run

This morning I went for an easy run. I was planning to do 12 miles, my last long run was 10 miles, but that was under ideal conditions: I was running about 20 miles per week, I was 5 lbs lighter, had not given blood during the previous week and I had not been to Switzerland for my daughters wedding. Anyway I did about 5 miles.

Here is the motionbased view of the run.

New Long Run

I have added a new advanced workout to my Garmin 305. The name is "Nov Long Run" and consists of the following steps:

1. Wait for lap key
2. 12 miles with not target speed, heart rate or time.
   
3. cool down for 1 mile

Hopefully, I will get to use this sometime this month. Next weekend is the Gruene bike ride and the Kormen 5K. Then it will be getting close to Thanksgiving and who nows when I can get 2 hours for running.

10 Mile Easy Run

I ran 10 miles today. Daniel, and his wife Andrea ran with me for the first 6 miles. Andrea's mom joined us for several miles. It was a beautiful run, the sky was clear, the temperature about 60 with very little wind. We ran at about a 12 to 12.5 mile pace. You can check out the GPS track here.

For the run today I set up my Garmin for 2 hours and doing 10 miles. Next weekend, or the next long run, I want to set it up for 12 miles taking 2:30 hours.

Next weekend will have a lot of activities:

1. Wurst Bike Ride in Gruere. (Saturday)
   
2. Komen Austin Race for the Cure (Sunday)
   

I have not signed up for either event so I have to figure out which ones I want to do and sign up.

I got off to a rocky start. I set the alarm for 5 AM, about 5:45 I woke up and checked the alarm to see what time it was. A dialog was on the screen stating that the clock had changed to standard time the dialog said I was to check the time and verify it was correct. That seems like a pretty dumb thing to do, have you check it to verify the time is correct especially blocking the alarm. The algorithm for changing the time is well known. Most computers do it automatically, I use my cell phone as my alarm clock so it is well connected and Microsoft could send updates to it or have it check the local time on the network.

It turns out we don't change to standard time for several weeks. So I will have to go through another change here in a couple of weeks. It sure caused a lot of confusion this morning.
Perhaps I should get a real alarm clock, it has failed twice now. For the last 4 or 5 years I have used the alarm clock on my cell phone and they have got me up at the correct time. Even when changing to daylight savings time.