| Location: Cypress,TX, Member Since: Oct 10, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 5K: 24:22 (March 2010); 22:33 (October 2010); 20:47 (May 2011); 21:05 (May 2012); 21:33 (September 2012); 21:23 (November, 2013); 22:31 (September 2014)
5M: 39:22 (November, 2012); 35:54 (November, 2013); 36:03 (March, 2015)
10K: 44:08 (November, 2010); 49:20 (July, 2013); 44:07 (April, 2015)
12K: 56:03 (December, 2013); 58:58 (December, 2014)
10M: 1:11:58 (October, 2012); 1:15:24 (October, 2014)
Half Marathon: 1:53:xx (London's Run 2010); 2:05:21 (Cowtown 2010); 1:37:04 (Gusher 2011); 1:42:19 (Huntsville 2011); 1:33:47 (Baytown Jailbreak 2012); 1:33:50 (The Woodlands 2012); 1:42:52 (Texas 2015); 1:49:17 (Jailbreak 2015); 1:38:34 (The Woodlands 2015)
25K: 2:01:47 (Fifth Third River Bank, May 2014)
Marathon: 5:51:35 (Texas Marathon 2009); 6:21:36 (Ogden 2009); 4:58:29 (St. George 2009); 4:13:45 (Texas Marathon 2010); 4:04:12 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2010); 5:11:14 (Hartford ING, 2010); 3:41:43 (Richmond SunTrust, 2010); 3:39:27 (Texas Marathon 2011); 3:41:46 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2011); 3:30:35 (St. George 2011); 3:41:51 (Richmond 2012); 3:49:15 (Texas 2013); 3:46:59 (Paavo Nurmi, 2013); 3:34:04 (St. George 2013); 3:49:51 (Texas 2014); 3:31:59 (Richmond 2014); 3:28:34 (Boston 2015) Short-Term Running Goals: 3:20, 1:30, 0:20 Long-Term Running Goals: I'm 60, there is no long term. Personal: I live, work and run in Houston, Texas. I have run 17 marathons, some good ones and some others. I prefer straight, flat, cold, sea-level marathons, still waiting for my first one. I feel like there are more PRs out there. When I have them, I am told it is time to dial it back, run for healthy reasons. I'm sure that's right, and I'm sure it won't happen.
My wife and I are from the mountains of the west. We have five kids, three granddaughters and three grandsons. The kids and grandkids are native Texans but we are not -- you have to be born here.
As for my blog title: I run most of my miles before sunrise, sometimes hours before. On the back road of my neighborhood two hours before daylight, I can depend on a pack of mutts behind the boundary fence lighting up when they hear my footsteps. I have wondered what they wanted; but according to Hemingway I needn't ask. |
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Texas Half Marathon (13.01 Miles) 01:42:52, Place overall: 14 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 13.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.01 |
| 41F, 95%, N 7 mph and light rain. Cold and rainy this morning. Didn't affect the race, but made things mody uncomfortable before and after. Next time I need to remember to bring dry shoes -- I had dry socks but you can't put them in wet shoes. Almost nobody was there except runners and volunteers. Riding a wave of confidence after the conclusion yesterday of my one-workout training cyle, followed by a generous 24-hour taper, I hopped in Wade's truck at 6:30 and we were off to the races.
This race is run by an aging hippie, Steve Boone, and his wife Paula, possibly the two nicest people on the planet. They give out good stuff (real stuff, as Steve calls it), including the largest finishing medals in the industry. And Steve run/walks all his races himself. I have run this race 4 times as the marathon, but only ran the half today. The course measures a little short according to my Garmin. I have measured it short every year, and Steve's e-mail this year indicates he is up for "recertification", which probably means somebody got wind of the issue. Not an issue if it is long, even if it is quite long, but if a certified course seems just a little short certain people get wound up. The missing 1/10 mile today was worth 3 seconds per mile, no big deal.
The race started at 8:15 a.m. and within a couple of miles I knew it wasn't going to be a stellar day. Goal was 7:30/mile, but actual splits were as follows: 8:16, 7:45, 7:59 (169), 7:49 (169), 7:58 (168), 7:44 (170), 7:41 (170), 7:32 (172), 7:57 (170), 7:59 (1680), 7:58 (168), 8:12 (168) and 8:04 (168). Should have been able to finish at least at180 bpm, but nothing was happening with my legs. Some of it is due to training through, but mostly I am not completely back in shape after losing training miles to the cold and flu I have had off and on since November. I think the winning time was close to my PR, and I am pretty sure the second-place time was slower than it.
Wade and I agreed on the way home that a bad day at the races is still a ton of fun, even in the rain.
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