| 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 | 0.00 | 13.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.86 |
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47F, cold clear morning, great running weather. The goal this morning was to run for 2:30 hours at my target marathon pace (11:00) for my next race, the Texas Marathon in Kingwood, Texas on New Years Day. I managed to do that, 13.86 miles at an average pace of 10:49, splits as follows:
11:45, 10:45, 10:49, 10:41, 10:48, 10:54, 10:31, 10:53, 10:48, 10:39, 10:53, 10:47, 10:51, 8:57 (10:24 pace)
I left my heart rate monitor at home. I'll go back to slow running during the week, but I am hoping to gradually increase the time for my Saturday long runs, eventually getting up to 4 hours at marathon pace. I started doing my long runs this way while preparing for St. George and it seemed to help a lot, at least for this stage of my training. I felt like I would have had a hard time running a full marathon at the same pace, so I am not there yet, but after this morning it seems doable. The difference running in cool weather is significant. A few weeks ago I would have struggled in the heat to run this far at this pace.
The most important thing that happened this morning is I passed somebody. They were a really tall guy and a really short woman who turned onto the sidewalk in front of me, I eased on by, smiled a little to myself but throttled the urge to pull out a Sharpie and offer my autograph. They looked like they were just warming up, but I am counting it. Several miles later at the turnaround, I noticed they were only a quarter behind, so I ended up bringing it in faster than I planned, probably too fast. Much more important than enjoying my health, making new friends and avoiding injury. | | |
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