| 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 | | 48.71 | 0.00 | 15.00 | 0.00 | 63.71 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 37F, clear, calm breeze from the north. Got out very early in order to make an early meeting at work. Intended to go long but time constrained. 10.0 in 1:24:44, 8:28/mile, HR 145 bpm, 153 max.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 21.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 21.01 |
| 41F to statrt, 36F to end, wind NE 7 mph (WC 30F). Started very early, hoping to go 30, but ran out of gas. I'll try again on Saturday, hopefully. 21.01 miles in 2:58:46, 8:30/mile, 148 bpm average, 158 max.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| 45F, calm and cloudy. 6.3 at LLHR, then had to quit to go to work. 11.09/mile. Hard to draw a bead on this one, given the long effort yesterday. But have probably slowed down from not running these much in the last 3 months. Ran some of it with Wade.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| 53F, SE 3 mph, cloudy and getting ready to rain, but it didn't until I finished. First and possibly only metric marathon of this training cycle. Didn't run yesterday because of work schedule, which combined with LLHR on Wednesday left me pretty rested. I ran one warmup mile off the clock and then hit the button and started. First split was 8:04 and I thought it was going to be a disaster. Then the second one came in at 7:30 and I was generally OK after that, though I did slow down toward the end, as did my heart rate. Just not enough stamina -- not a cardiovascular limitation at this point, though that might change in Dubai if it gets warmish, which it may do; lows right now are in the low 60s there, not terrible but not great.
Splits were as follows: 8:04 (153), 7:30 (158), 7:35 (162), 7:37 (162), 7:43 (164), 7:27 (163), 7:34 (166), 7:22 (167), 7:30 (167), 7:31 (168), 7:38 (168), 7:41 (167), 7:35 (166), 7:45 (162), 7:51 (166). Average HR was 164, max 169. 7:38/mile overall, not counting the warmup.
Came in at 1:39:46 for the half, which I think is pretty close to what I ran a week ago in the race, but hard to tell for sure because of the measurement problems in the trees out there.
Not stellar results today, but certainly not a disaster, I can work with this. I checked out my best MM in the Boston training cycle, 7:29/mile, 169 average heart rate and 177 max. It was a lot warmer that day, 66F, so not apples to apples. Definitely a little slower right now. But a PR, while not likely, is not out of reach after factoring in today's lower heart rate and the fact that I am on a modest upswing fitness-wise.
Headed to Dubai on Monday night, there for almost 3 weeks. Marathon is on January 22. If schedule and circumstances permit I might try this run again in the first few days after I arrive.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.40 |
| 56F, calm and clearing. It rained some more last night but the weather is clearing out now, it will be a beautiful weekend. Shakeout run, no watch, but I think I ran a lot closer to 9:00 pace than 8:30. Felt surprisingly tired after I quit, though wasn't overly stressed while running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 48.71 | 0.00 | 15.00 | 0.00 | 63.71 |
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