| 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 | | 8.50 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.50 |
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Taking the day off, might take a few days off although I feel pretty good. Now that I have slept on it a couple of nights, still very happy about Saturday's race, but pretty sure there will be better days. A few wind-up items and then I will put it to bed:
1. It was only a 2-minute PR but it was significant in a couple of ways. I moved down one age bracket in the BQ chase, and for women I am now BQ-qualified in the open category (no surgery planned, however). I also beat my old long-term goal of 3:40.
2. I put the finisher's medal on a food scale (you can tell that work is busy today). It weighs 48 ounces, exactly 3 pounds, so they exaggerated when they said it was 5 pounds. By comparison, however, I weighed last year's medal and it was a mere 30 ounces, so this year is a definite improvement.
3. Looks like my official finishing place is 39th out of 317, not 37th and not quite a top 10% finish. I am listed 40th by gun time, but I was 30 seconds late crossing the starting mat so one slower runner is listed ahead of me. I was the 36th male and second in age group by about 1 minute. My daughter finished the half 30th overall out of 300, 10th female and first in her age group.
4. To squelch a nasty rumor started by Burt, I am not making up my spill at mile 16.5. Here is the photographic evidence, which I think documents a pretty bad owie. Sorry if anybody is squeamish, but this is not a pretty sport. (Burt, it's the left leg, and you can tell by the bony knee structure that it is mine.)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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39F, 80% humidity, wind NW 5 mph. Fantastic running weather this morning. I have been fighting a work schedule and a persistent cold all week, but mostly a creeping lethargy -- I knew I needed to get out for a run today even though I don't have the time. My wife did the seminary run so I was able to sleep in a little. Then ran 5.5 miles in 47:52, average pace 8:42 per mile, flat shoes. Ran first two at low heart rate, 10:03 and 9:29, then 3 at GMP, 8:00, 7:51 and 7:39, then 1/2 cooldown. Heart rate still a little high, but it felt really good to get some endorphins back into my system. Still slammed by work but more optimistic now about getting through this rough patch.
I need to make a plan for the year. Even though I didn't get a 3:30 marathon, I'm thinking I was probably close under better conditions and I should go ahead and target a faster one. That is the only way I can get better. It doesn't happen for me if I just go out and run without a plan. | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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42F, 61% humidity, wind E 1 mph. Just another day in paradise. Worked late last night, got to bed at 1 then met Wade at 6 at the YMCA, the whole group was going 21 as their final long run before the Houston marathon. Wade only wanted 9 and that was OK with me. He wanted to do three fast ones, so we started out in the 9:15 to 9:00 range for five, then did three at 8:00 to 7:50 then one cooldown. Overall 9.00 miles in 1:20:08, average pace 8:56 per mile. I was showing very low heart rates (157, 153 and 146 for the three fast miles), but I don't think that is correct unless I'm a lot better than I was a week ago. Possible I suppose after running almost nothing this week, but not likely, especially since it went down instead of up. I felt lousy getting out of bed this morning but much better after I ran. I should run more often.
Got my work out last night so hopefully things will be a little more reasonable that way and I can get back into a rhythm next week. It has been a week, time to get going. I may go back to Argentina a week from tomorrow, so it may be hard to maintain a schedule for a while.
Happy weekend all. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.50 |
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