Not the Poker Run

This was sort of a different week for me. I was sick the first part of the week and didn't run until Wednesday, a short 3.9 miles just under 8 minute pace. Then I went out of town and got back in time to make the Thursday group run, except that I heard my mother's sister died on Wednesday and her funeral was in Blytheville, Arkansas on Friday afternoon. I had some work that needed to be done Friday, so I went into the office and completed it, which made me unable to run.    Friday I got up at 5 in the morning and drove the seven hours to the funeral. The funeral was fairly short, and they didn't have a graveside service because with all the snow that they have gotten lately, the ground is pretty mushy. I'm glad I went because I was able to visit with cousins that I haven't seen for a very long time. After the funeral I decided to drive on home, and I arrived back in Jenks a little after 9 p.m. Afterwards I stayed up a while and visited with my sister-in-law, who arrived Thursday for a visit from North Carolina.    I was exhausted when I went to bed sometime after midnight, but I couldn't seem to get to sleep. Around 3 o'clock I decided since I couldn't sleep, I might as well run. So I put on my gear and headed out to Veterans Park. You can see the route I took on the map below. What you can't see is that when I got to Turkey Mountain I decided to take the red trail instead of staying on pavement. Bad decision. The ground was pretty mushy, and I was reduced to a walk at times, trying to keep my feet as clean and dry as possible. That explains my slow pace on mile 14.   I arrived back at Veterans Park just in time to help set up for today's Poker Run. And I didn't run in the Poker Run - just stood around and helped people register and turn in their cards when they were finished. I sorta wished I had kept running. It was pretty miserable standing out in that wind and cold - even though I had changed out of my sweat drenched clothes. The wind wasn't bad at all when I was running. It seems to have picked up right around 7 a.m. Turnout was pretty good at the run - maybe around 300 people. I saw Sam, Eric, and Dave from our group, and I'm sure more must have been there, but I didn't notice who.    My total miles for week = 24. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 632 ft Location: Tulsa, OK Elev. Gain: -4 ft Date: 02/13/10 Up/Downhill: [+593/-597] Time: 03:34 AM Difficulty: 4.7 / 5.0 Weather: Fog/Mist 31 F temp; 92% humidity 31 F heat index; winds S 9 Performance Distance: 20.11 miles Time: 3:02:10 Speed: 6.6 mph Pace: 9' 04 /mi Heart Rate: 144 bpm (Avg) Calories: 2552 163 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 161 - 179 0h 00m 0%  0.04 mi Zone 4 143 - 161 2h 07m 69%  13.76 mi Zone 3 125 - 143 1h 16m 41%  7.46 mi Zone 2 107 - 125 0h 04m 2%  0.24 mi Zone 1 90 - 107 0h 05m 2%  0.07 mi (none) out of range 0h 04m 2%  0.03 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 00 -0' 04 6.7 +0.0 136 -29 ft 2 8' 55 -0' 09 6.7 +0.1 141 0 ft 3 8' 58 -0' 06 6.7 +0.1 137 +10 ft 4 8' 55 -0' 09 6.7 +0.1 141 -10 ft 5 9' 02 -0' 02 6.6 +0.0 145 0 ft 6 9' 00 -0' 04 6.7 +0.0 141 -13 ft 7 8' 54 -0' 10 6.7 +0.1 145 +13 ft 8 8' 49 -0' 15 6.8 +0.2 147 -9 ft 9 8' 43 -0' 21 6.9 +0.3 144 +10 ft 10 8' 34 -0' 30 7.0 +0.4 144 -4 ft 11 8' 45 -0' 19 6.8 +0.2 142 -10 ft 12 8' 36 -0' 28 7.0 +0.4 141 +3 ft 13 8' 58 -0' 06 6.7 +0.1 147 +98 ft 14 13' 07 +4' 03 4.6 -2.0 141 -13 ft 15 8' 46 -0' 18 6.8 +0.2 141 -66 ft 16 9' 08 +0' 04 6.6 -0.1 146 0 ft 17 8' 35 -0' 29 7.0 +0.4 149 0 ft 18 8' 39 -0' 25 6.9 +0.3 153 -10 ft 19 9' 08 +0' 04 6.6 -0.1 149 +33 ft 20 8' 27 -0' 37 7.1 +0.5 156 -3 ft end 8' 05 -0' 59 7.4 +0.8 156 -3 ft Versus average of 9' 04 min/mile

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