| 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 | | 2.12 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.12 |
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41F, 71% humidity, wind NW 9 mph. Those are the numbers on the computer for Cyrpess, but actual wind was at least 15 if not 20 mph. It was a real problem every time I turned into it. Otherwise it was really great running weather out there, actually had to take off my gloves after awhile. Ran 2 warmup miles, 9:39 and 8:41, then back to GMP for 10: 7:35 (168), 7:35 (170), 7:33 (171), 7:20 (172), 7:23 (178), 7:22 (174), 7:34 (174), 7:35 (176), 7:36 (178) and 7:35 (181), flat shoes. Overall pace 7:49, average pace for GMP miles 7:31, so pretty much on the money. I had real problems maintaining pace the last 4 miles, it was like my legs stiffened up or something. I wasn't particularly tired, and I felt like I pumped up the effort considerably on the last two miles and they still came in high. I'll have to work on figuring that one out, I'm probably not limber enough. Time for Pilates (right). On the other hand, the relatively high heart rate never bothered me, I guess I was feeling good from not having run hard for a few days.
We have two new familes on our cul de sac. So our neighbor invited everybody over for a pre-Super Bowl party yesterday. Proceeding counterclockwise, the first house is English (him) and French (her), then Irish (him) and Mexican (her), then Mormon (us), then the host, Jill and Todd (the only normal house), then finally the last house is Peruvians who didn't show, but we know who they are. But we were all united in our love for the Packers (BnS, are you still out there?), because the Steelers did some really rude things to the old Houston Oilers' Super Bowl ambitions about 30 years ago and we haven't forgotten. We had to explain a couple of things to the English/French couple, starting with why the ball wasn't round, but before long they got with the program. It was well worth the effort, though, because she brought over a really superior apple tart. | | |
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