| 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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Blue Bell Fun Run 10K (6.23 Miles) 00:44:07, Place overall: 40, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.15 | 0.00 | 6.23 | 0.00 | 12.38 |
| Forgot to get a weather report, but about 60F until the sun came up, then about 65F for the race. Didn't run yesterday because of work pressures, and woke up earlier than I intended. So I went out and ran LLHR miles in the neighborhood, 4.15 miles at 11:00/mile.
Picked up Wade at 6:00 and we headed to Brennam, TX, which is an hour west of Houston on the eastern edge of the Texas hill country. This race benefits the local high school and is popular throughout the region because they serve Blue Bell Ice Cream, a confectionary delight known locally as the National Ice Cream of Texas. Wade and I ran a little bit of the course to get a feel for the hills, 2.0 miles at a 9:00 pace. Main reason to race today was to warm up for the Newton Hills in 9 days.
The race started about 3 minutes late, first mile largely downhill. Ran with Wade until I caught my breath at the first corner then took off, as Wade is still not fully recovered from a bad cold he had a couple of weeks ago. I decided there was no reason whatsoever to hold back, just run as hard as I could. Faded a bit as a result, but not badly. Lots of hills in this race, five in all I think, a couple of them respectably steep and long. Splits were 6:41 (165), 7:03 (178), 7:05 (179), 7:08 (178), 7:18 (177), 7:25 (179) and 6:12 (180) (downhill through the finishing chute). Tried to maintain a high heart rate and not worry too much about time, which worked generally OK except for mile 5. It was fun racing people today, went back and forth with several runners, beat some of them and some beat me. Next guy in my new age group was 2:30 behind me, so this isn't going to be much fun. I also won the 55-59 age group, but we left early in any event because it was taking too long to announce awards. 40th overall out of 1129 runners, nice to be back in the top 5% of these local fun runs, it has been a while.
So about 7:05/mile, which grades out to 7:25/mile for a half and 7:45/mile for a full. I think I may be in better marathon shape right now than 10K shape, but the race itself will determine that. If I break 8:00/mile on The Race Day that will be good enough. 10 day forecast for Boston now includes Patriots Day, 57H, 46L, SW 10 mph, 10% chance of rain. That's good enough if it holds.
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