| 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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12K of Christmas (7.46 Miles) 00:56:03, Place overall: 51, Place in age division: 1 | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.46 | 0.00 | 7.46 |
| 74F, 100% and raining. This race is called 12K of Christmas, get it? It is actually pretty well organized, good traffic control, precise course measurements and an on-time start. My family advised me not to go to this race because of the weather. My daughter Jennifer was signed up but decide not to go, which I certainly respected. I promised that if there was lightning or thunder in the area I wouldn't run. Wade, Linda and a couple of others drove down together for a 7:45 a.m. start. It was raining steadily in Cypress where I live, but the race was in downtown Houston; it was raining to a certain extent at the start of the race, but out on the course it wasn't. In any event, no lightning so I ran.
Really wasn't sure what I could do, turned out to be not much, especially in the heat. I started with Wade but he pulled away after about 3 miles. He is running every day now and it shows. He hates hot weather but still got 7:16 per mile. He basically hit the first one in about 7:30 and was low 7s the rest of the way. He beat me by two minutes, the first time that has happened in several years, very happy for him. My splits were 7:29 (139), 7:12 (176), 7:17 (181), 7:15 (183), 7:49 (183), 7:51 (184), 7:51 (185) and 7:27 (186), overall 7:31/mile, average 176 bpm, 189 max, so I almost maxed out. Ironically, I won my age group by 5 minutes. 51st overall out of 697, 7.3% of the runners ahead of me. This was a medium-sized holiday run, but not competitive, although at the top end it was all low 5s (for some reason all of the results are quoted in Ks, which I think is carrying the theme too far).
As soon as the race was over the rain started in earnest; we piled in the vehicle and headed out without picking up our awards. On the way back I told Wade I was seriously considering pulling out of Kingwood, the fitness hill looks too tall to climb right now. I am out of shape and worse I don't really feel like running right now. He predicted I would not make good on my threat and he is probably going to be right.
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