Who all is here and what are you doing? (Read 16874 times)

I guess I'll jump in on this too.... I'm Jason; I'm a Cardiopulmonary tech currently stationed in a very sandy place with the Air Force ( I played Army for a while before I saw the light). I just finished administering cardiac stress tests through my "sleeping period" and I'm about to catch some dinner before I have to report for my actual (scheduled) shift. I run for two main reasons, to keep my sanity and to stay fit; I find the time I run is the only time I truly get to myself. Somewhere along the line I found that I truly enjoy running. I'm not the most regular of runners due to ridiculous work schedules and a tendency to overdo it, but I've been keeping a log (paper, left it back in the States on accident), and started on here recently which has helped both the regularity and the appropriatness of my running. I've enjoyed reading the posts on here and I look forward to a long stretch in this community of runners.

I'm here and I'm running!!!!!! LOL

Welcome Phil!!! Hey, we have a lot in common...I am a 46 year old, 191.8 pound engineer with a 14 year old daughter as well!

Hey everyone, I'm Anna. I work in an elementary school and am greatly enjoying my summer off. I've been logging my runs here since I started training for my first half marathon in the beginning of last year. The race went better than I expected (and exactly as I hoped), but I didn't get back to running after it. This last May I started running again when I got a notice of a 5K going right past my apartment - I knew I wouldn't get a much better sign than that! I was kind of disappointed in my 5K performance, but I immediately went home and looked up all the local races I could find. I am now training for another half marathon in October (I thought about trying to do the marathon, but decided that might be a bit too much too soon). Anyways, I just started reading and getting into the forums, so I thought I'd say hi...

Hello. I'm hoping that I can get close to 2 hours again, and I'll be very happy if I can do it in less. Maybe I'll try to get to a 9 min. pace...

I am now training for another half marathon in October (I thought about trying to do the marathon, but decided that might be a bit too much too soon). Anyways, I just started reading and getting into the forums, so I thought I'd say hi... I am a teacher too and enjoying my time off as well. I also am training for a HM in October...my first race in two years. I did the HM in Indy and then stopped running. My husband does marathons and I thought I wouldl do one then thought better of it and switched to the HM. Good luck to you!

jlynnbob - I have actually done the Houston HM twice and love it! The other two I did were interesting - one was on the beach (Surfside, Texas) and the other was on trails in Seabrook, Texas. Thanks for the warm welcome!

My name is Blaine, and I write over at Run to Win. I have been running for around 15 to 20 years or so, although I tend to be mediocre at the levels at which I compete. I have been averaging 2 marathons per year since I graduated from college, but I am hoping to bump that up to 3 (or 4) this year. I ran the Boston Marathon a second time, which doesn't bring me any closer to running one in all 50 states, so I am thinking of running a second marathon this Autumn to make up for that. My current choices right now leave me with a marathon the week after another one that I am committed two, a pair that are a month before but that I'm not that interested in running, and a 50k trail race a month and a half before that I am leaning towards. I used to run in the 85-95 miles per week range when I was in college (I ran for RIT), but I tend to get injured when I start exceeding 50-60 miles per week these days. My best marathons have all been run on around 40-45 miles per week. I also mix in a lot of swimming and weight lifting, and not enough bike riding. I would like to get into coaching at some point, but I need to find a way to work fewer hours before that really becomes something that I can realistically pursue. Working fewer hours will probably have to wait until my wife passes the bar exam and starts working, so I have a few more years to run for myself and to offer advice to some local friends and to random people that stop by my site on the internet. I started using this site towards the beginning of this year, but just recently started moving along into the forums and such. It's a pleasure meeting all y'all. I hope that I am not pissing off too many people by constantly linking to my site, but as I am going on my third year of writing for it, there are a lot of articles that I have written that address things that are being discussed and its easier to link than to retype. That, and I like promoting my writing whenever possible in the hopes that somebody finds it worthwhile and looks around to find something else that is worthwhile.