| 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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Didn't run yesterday morning because of work pressures, thought I might run last night but decided late that my hip needed a day off anyway.
The weather was 79F, 83% humidity at start, calm. Started out as a beautiful morning, don't really mind the moist air, at least for the first few miles. I ran 10 very easy miles at low heart rate, regular shoes. The Garmin is still acting up, it kept turning off, even though I charged it two days ago. I think it is leaking charge even turned off, so I'll leave it on the charger and see if it works better tomorrow. If not, time for a new one. I wish they were more reliable, as I am not aware of any good substitutes. For what I paid for that thing it should last more than a year and a half.
Oh yes, the run. Early miles, to the extent I could get momentary readings when I turned the Garmin back on, were about 11:00 pace, drifting gradually up to 12:30 at the end, a slower pace and a wider drift than I get on cooler days. Part of that is the shoes, part the heat, part "operator error". The air at the beginning was completely calm and "sweating", just tiny drops falling even though there were no low clouds. Finally some clouds came in and I finished in a downpour with some wind, which felt considerably better, although I am sure my wife won't be happy when she sees the wet kitchen floor I left at the house this morning. Tried to dry it off but there are still some incriminating spots I am afraid. Hopefully I'll still be a runner tomorrow.
I wanted to test out my hip wearing regular shoes, which seemed to work pretty well. My hip didn't even make an appearance until mile 3, and behaved pretty well after that. I really think the irritation is from quite a bit of hill work the last month. I ran a hilly trail the week before the marathon, then the marathon, then last week in Central Park. It doesn't take a lot, just a little bit of up and down is enough to trigger it. Now that I am flat again I think it will gradually improve. I'll probably do flat shoes tomorrow and see if everything still holds together as well as it did today. Flat roads, flat shoes, flat chest, I think I see a pattern here. | | |
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