| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 55.80 | 8.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 67.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Thunderstorms, so 5 on TM at gym. Just under 8:00 overall pace. HR max 170.
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Final Four (How Long was that Marathon) 4-miler (4 Miles) 00:29:30, Place overall: 71, Place in age division: 3 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.70 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 14.70 |
| 49F.
Out early this morning for 10.5 in the neighborhood, including 4 with Wade. Ran them slow, even for me, 8:47/mile, HR 145 bpm. Finished atvabout 6:00 a.m., including a PoP stop. Then after thinking it over I decided to drive downtown for a final four race, which turned out to be pretty cool even though I was alone.
I first noticed the race when we got a notification at work about downtown traffic flows over the weekend, which would be screwed up because of the "Final Four Marathon". I usually know when there is a marathon in town so I checked it out. Turned out to be the 4-mile variety.
Since I am now out of Ragnar, and since temperatures were ideal, I made a game-time decision this morning to run it. It was a late start, 8:30, so there was plenty of time. It was actually cold enough that I had to wear an extra shirt until just before the gun. Warmed up a couple of tenths, took my place in line and had to wait for the festivities. Very heavy military emphasis -- there was a wounded vet representing each of the teams. Each vet was either a single or double amputee, special forces in most cases. (IEDs are a despicable form of warfare. We only see the vets. There must be 10 or 20 amputee civilians back in Iraq and Afghanistan for every vet we see here.) Then an active duty sargeant sang the national anthem and she was excellent. I was pumped up when the race began, though I was crawling at the start because too many 11:00/mile runners were crowding the start line.
Another single amputee was actually running it with one of those spring legs, at a good clip, didn't catch him until about mile 1 -- seeing him was great, made my race and I told him so. He was gracious about it even though he was working very hard.
When the first mile came in at 6:30 I figured something was wrong; when the second one came in at 6:27 I thought maybe it would be the real deal. Then at mile 2.44 I saw the 2-mile marker, along with 15:19 on my watch, and the gig was up. Too many downtown buildings to measure accurately. It doesn't mean the course is accurate, but I have nothing better to go by than the claim that it is 4.00 miles. By my watch I had 6:52/mile overall speed, but my official speed was 7:22, still OK due to the previous miles this morning.
Finished 3rd in my age group, 10 seconds behind the second-place guy, though I didn't know it because he had the sense to start 3 seconds behind the gun. I was 30 seconds back. 71 overall out of about 2200 runners. As I think about it, maybe the course was long, because 7:22/mile shouldn't have been good enough for top 3%. I'll never know, though; it is clear looking at the Garmin upload that my watch had no idea where I was until I got out of downtown.
Ate some food and went home. Best t-shirt: "A lot of work for a free banana."
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.40 |
| 52F, 8.4 miles at 8:47/mile, 141 bpm, 147 max.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.70 |
| 52F, 8.7 miles, LLHR, 11:02/mile, 120 bpm. Thinking of doing SGM in October as a last hurrah. The plan would be to slog out LLHR all summer long then do a month of intense lead-in like I did for Boston last year. Travel interruptions should be reduced this summer.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 61F. 8.0 at 7:57/mile, 154 bpm average, 170 max. Good run, starting to feel some extra spring in my legs. Resting heart rate was 48 sitting out on the curb, lowest I have seen in a long time.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 55F, missed yesterday due to work commitments. Today was 8.0 miles at 8:27/mile, 149 bpm average, 157 max. Wade wanted to go slower today, as he ran twice yesterday, compared to my zero.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 55F. 15.0 miles at 8:14/mile. Was planning on 20 even though I got a late start (6:30 a.m.), which I didn't regret. Then at the HM mark I started to chafe (forgot the body glide, last time this summer I will do that) and my feet started to get sore. I caught the 8:30 guy at mile 3, the 8:20 guy at mile 11 and the 8:15 guy at mile 14. Average HR 151, max 164, last mile 161 bpm. At these heart rates I had enough stamina to push through, but my body is a little bit short of absorbing 20 miles worth of pounding right now. Bad news, I am starting to get in the PR frame of mind again. Getting on a plane tonight, gone for about 2 weeks, so mostly TM miles for a while.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 55.80 | 8.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 67.80 |
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