GM Tony Hedlund vs Hiarcs Headbangers - DRAW.

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Sat May 02, 2009 7:13 am

Well Tony, even though we are still in book, this was a tough vote and a split decision: 7 to 5.
But the Team has rallied, our expert OTB players are onboard, and our 3 dozen+ processors are tracking the game quite well.
So, I think there will be some turbulence ahead; fasten your seat belt, your in for a rough ride.

We move:

20...Qb8

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Sun May 03, 2009 5:54 pm

21.Rg1

Sounds good, then it's soon time to start thinking in this game.

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:19 pm

As expected:

21...Bd8

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:07 pm

22.Rg3

All well prepered.

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Wed May 06, 2009 1:27 pm

I, personally, was expecting Bc4, but the Team was well prepared for Rg3.

So we move:

22...Bb6

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Fri May 08, 2009 5:54 pm

23.Qxb4

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:40 pm

23...Qa7

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Mon May 11, 2009 2:57 pm

24.Bxb6

1.39.24 on my halfmarathon, it's faster than my 10 km race two weeks ago.
Now it's three weeks to my 13 th Stockholm Marathon.

turbojuice1122 · Post by **turbojuice1122** » Tue May 12, 2009 12:48 am

Great run, Tony! What are you shooting for in Stockholm? Good luck during your tapering.

I had my first race of the year last Saturday--I'd been battling injuries and other stuff for awhile (and particularly simply lack of time to train). It was just a local 5k race, which I ran in 17:47. The weather was quite warm and humid. Even so, most impressive was that the guy who beat me (I got second place) is one of my training buddies, and he is 47 years old! He passed me about 3 km in and then pulled away, winning by about 12 seconds. A 42-year-old also almost caught me at the end. The masters runners performed quite well!

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:36 pm

I'm 52! so those fast times is long past gone. The longest I've run this year (due to colds) is 23k, I'll try to get a 30k before Stockholm, but I doubt it's enough for a under 3.30 time. So I guess it's more like 3.45.

I'm impressed buy your time, you must be young. The fastest runner in our club did 17.20 but he is 37.

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:19 pm

Not a lot of voters this time.
Must be either WCCC or the obvious move:

24...Nxb6

Seems your doing good for a 52 year young person. Keep us posted on your 30k.

turbojuice1122 · Post by **turbojuice1122** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:13 pm

Wow, you are doing quite well for someone in his fifties! It would be great if you could get 3:30 in Stockholm. I checked that 3:35 is the qualifying time for the Boston Marathon for people in your age group. Either way, I bet it's a really beautiful race. Good luck with the 30k run; will that be a race or a training run (or both?)?

I used to be in better shape and running 5k's in the 16's somewhat regularly, but I'm still trying to get back into shape. We'll see what the summer brings...

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:20 pm

30k will be pure training in a 5.45 pace. The important is to run a long time, not how many km you run.

It was interesting to read about Boston. The main reason when I started to run marathon in the early 80's was to qualify for that marathon. Back then I had to do 3.00. I did 3.05 in 1988 and was sure to make it 1989. But I trained to hard and wrong and got injured all the time. I quit running 96-99 and never came back to that standard. The best I've done since then is 3.17 for 4-5 years ago. Now I'm more of a marathon "collector", I've ran 57 in total.

Tony Hedlund · Post by **Tony Hedlund** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:07 pm

25.Bb5

JEB_Tucson · Post by **JEB_Tucson** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:54 pm

It seems neither side can find a good point to leave book.
At least not yet.

25...Qa2+