| 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 | | 30.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 30.00 |
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71F at beginning, 55F at end, partly cloudy wind SSE 10 mph. 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. It was a perfect night for running. Ran 30.00 very slowly, in 5:51:51, average pace 11:44 per mile, average heart rate 138 bpm, regular shoes. My heart rate is naturally higher at night than in the morning. I didn't really want to do this run, but SlowJoe said I had to. I quit at 30.00, not one step further. But at least I made 30, the furthest I have run and something I have failed twice to do in the last month. I remember a year ago running the marathon distance on a Saturday long run and running the last mile in 14:30 at a 145 heart rate. My last lap today was 12:52. Older is definitely better, but I need to run this a little faster.
My heart rate got as high as 150, but was in the low 140s most of the run after 10 miles, then wend down to mid-130s for the last 5 or 6, partly because I slowed down, but also due to some other physiological factor which I don't really understand. I am guessing my body switched over to burning fat after I finished digesting up a bowl of rice I ate just before the run. It was like I ran through the bonk that happened at 22 miles and lasted through the marathon distance, maybe a little further, then at about mile 27 or 28 the nausea abated enough that it was no longer uncomfortable to run, my pace picked up naturally and my heart rate went down. I waited too long to take a drink, about 13 miles, a bad personal habit which doesn't work at this distance.
At about mile 6 I ran into my friend, Wade, who ran the Texas marathon with me. He is faster than me and has been improving despite not really focusing since the January 1 race. He ran with me until about mile 18 and we had a good time, but then it was tough being on my own for the last 12. We are thinking of joining a running group for Saturday morning runs down at the YMCA. I was concerned that they might be doing only 10 for a long run, but then we figured out that we could run down there, do their run and run back, giving us 20 miles. Wouldn't want to do that every week but I am looking for extra ideas for long runs (I can't do a progression run or a 30-miler every Saturday, that would get stale), so that might be a good alternative. Also, we might do a 10K next Saturday in Brennam (home of famous Blue Bell ice cream, about an hour from here), but that is still up in the air. Depends on whether they are serving rocky road. | | |
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