| 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 | | 8.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.02 |
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74F, 97% humidity, wind SW 2 mph, clear. Beautiful morning back in Texas. I ran 8.02 miles in 1:13:46, average pace 9:12, flat shoes. Hip issues at a 3 or 4. I ran the first couple of miles at lower heart rate then gradually sped up until I got to the 165-170 bpm range. If I had run further I would have been there anyway running 10+ minutes per mile in the humid heat. I have changed my mind about altitude. I now think heat is worse, because I ran slower today compared to UVM pace at similar heart rates and the same shoes. Some of it might be recovery issues, but it is now 9 days since the marathon so I don't think that played a major role. Splits were 10:23 (127), 9:25 (141), 9:21 (146), 9:12 (152), 8:51 (160), 8:46 (166), 8:44 (170), 8:53 (172). Comparatively, miles 2-6 in the marathon were 8:20 (173), 8:15 (163), 8:28 (168), 8:31 (166), 8:29 (168), and miles 9-13 were 8:10 (168), 8:25 (170), 8:52 (173), 8:22 (168), 8:36 (168). These splits included some of the major downhill miles at UVM before I started to tire significantly, so it appears, for me at least, that altitude, low temperature and downhill (UVM conditions) are about 20-30 seconds per mile faster than sea level, heat and flat (today's conditions).
My guess is that no altitude, low temperature and flat (fall marathon at sea level) would be considerably faster than a race like UVM. If that is true, then it means heat is a huge factor (turning the fastest conditions into the slowest) and downhill a smaller factor. The other thing I learned is that I have a lot of work to do in the 160-175 range, just below where my legs start to get tired. There may be some easy pickings there if my legs can sustain those speeds enough to get in some serious miles.
I realized that this is a nerdy entry, but I am posting it anyway because I need to keep the info somewhere! | | |
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