| 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 | | 9.65 | 0.00 | 4.35 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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73F, 88% WNW 2 mph. My eyes got big when I saw this weather report, figured I would run like Meb this morning. But my legs were still tired from yesterday, not an ideal day for a workout. The plan was 7 under 150 bpm then 7 x 1000 at 7:00 pace. The first 7 were at 9:00 per mile, 140 bpm, so looking good to that point. Then I got a call that I had to take, following which I launched into the 1K repeats, jogging out each mile. They didn't go so well. Translated into mile paces: 7:29 (158), 7:27 (158), 7:02 (163), 7:17 (167), 7:14 (171), 7:15 (172), 7:31 (174). The last repeat was all I could do, felt like I was alone out there, but it finally ended and I was done. Overall 14.00 miles in 1:58:50, 8:29 per mile, 179 bpm max. A lot of work to get 2 seconds per mile better than yesterday.
The call was from Australia, but it related to my travel to Taiwan this week. There is a big taifun headed toward Taiwan, scheduled to arrive about the same time as me. The Australian was thinking I shouldn't go, but it isn't my choice. My client is Chinese, and the other party is Japanese. So my client sent an e-mail to the Japanese along the lines of "gee, there seems to be a large taifun bearing down, not sure your plane can land, would you like to re-schedule?" Whereupon the Japanese write back in 5 minutes, to the effect of "no, we are busy next week, we will see you on Friday." I love the Japanese, used to speak Japanese, but there is definitely some intra-Asian oneupmanship going on here. Bottom line, if the Japanese go, I have to go. If the taifun hits I may not get out for a while, so I guess I'll take my yellow Helping Hands shirt and join a cleanup crew, not like I haven't done hurricane cleanup before, but this will be my first taifun. Not sure what any of this has to do with running, just had to explain my possible absence in the coming days. | | |
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