| 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 | | 25.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.22 |
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57F, 100% humidity, wind calm. Ran dark and early, then well into the daylight, to the point that it was starting to warm up a little, but heat was never much of a factor. Went 25.22 miles in 4:23:26, average pace 10:27 per mile, regular shoes, which felt heavy after running all week in flats. Despite the unusually slow pace, can't describe this run as anything but difficult. The fatigue was bone-deep by the time I finished. I ran it hungry, and there is definitely a fat-burning speed at which you can run forever to the extent your legs can hold up, but it is not a comfortable feeling for me, at least yet. My legs were the limiting factor this morning, especially the left leg front top, don't know what it is called but it is the muscle you use to lift your leg when you are putting on shoes or taking off socks. Coincidentally, you also use it to lift your leg when you run, and it has been bothering me off and on all week. I almost quit early this morning but it subsided for a while so I kept going.
I ran from my house down to the Y, about 7 miles, found a miraculously open bathroom and had just enough time to catch the 5:50 group out of the gate. Because of my leg I intended to peel off about halfway back on the return and go back home, leaving me with about 15 for the day. But no, I kept going. We started talking about teenagers, runners love black humor I guess. The funnier the jokes, the slower we went. Didn't want to miss any of it so I ran all the way back to the Y with the group, 10 for them, which left me about 8 to get home via a longer but safer route, now that traffic was out.
Then I was on my own to get home. I toyed with going a full marathon but decided that wouldn't be a mature decision, and we all know I am a very mature, just check out my age group sometime. So because of my maturity I decided to stop one mile short, which left me running around my cul de sac a couple of times like a donkey to get exactly 25.22.
Just talked to my daughter. She ran a 5K in Temple this morning and won her age group, she is almost as fast as me already and improving very quickly, won't be long before she breaks 20 minutes, which is a serious 5K time. Also, my granddaughter completed her first 1K. She had to be carried a few steps, but then saw Santa and wanted to make sure he saw her running, so she passed him, gave him a high five and powered it in. I'm certain she won her age group too. | | |
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