| 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 | | 5.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.04 |
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85F, 60%, SE 2 mph to start, 81F, 72%, SSE 7 mph to end. When I got up this morning the foot hurt worse than at the same time yesterday, so I didn't go out. Worked until mid-afternoon, then drove back home and went to the gym where I did one hour on the stationary bike at a cadence of about 90 per minute (upright, not recumbent, my back felt much better), felt better at that speed and resistance than last time, and I could read so it helped pass the time. At about the 50-minute mark I got tired of reading, cranked up the tension and sped up to 104 rpm, whereupon my heart rate finally started to rise, all the way up to 142, but by the time I got to 60 minutes I felt like I was finishing a 5K. Then did weights for about a half hour and came home and ate a full dinner, then went out the door for 5 actual running miles, 5.04 in 44:12, 8:46 per mile, 152 bpm. Felt really odd at first but I eventually got used to the food sloshing around. Foot has been improving all day long and felt fine tonight, not sure how it will feel in the morning. The sun started to go down a little bit and as soon as the shadows came it felt much cooler. But I learned that it is better to run outside hot than inside on a treadmill.
At about the 1-mile mark an unleashed mangy mutt (35 pounds) came running up, so I did my usual frozen statue defense, after pausing my Garmin of course. The owner started talking and I thought she was trying to me her dog was harmless, but she was pointing at a rooftop, it was a bald eagle sitting there, the first I had seen in Texas, even the dog lost interest in my arthritic heel. I looked at a Texas birds guide and sure enough, the bald eagle is an uncommon but year-round resident on the upper Texas coast, I had no idea. There was a song-bird flying around it trying to get it to leave, probably has a nest in the area. I have seen large hawks fly away when smaller, faster birds start pecking at them, but the eagle just ignored him, he was too special to run. Very cool. (Rye is going to have to psychoanalyze why the appearance of the eagle stopped the dog attack.) | | |
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