| 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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| 32F (26 WC), 62%, N 6 mph. A three-shirt morning. LLHR run, met Wade for 3 or 4, he is also trying to recover from some knee and hip pain, but both of us are getting better. Started out a low heart rate, Wade was running a bit faster so moved up to about 128-132 bpm, then back down for the final 4 miles. Overall 11:30/mile, 122 bpm, but slow miles were in the upper 11s. To be expected for this type of weather and clothing. Foot seems a little better.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 34F, 90%, calm. Much nicer this morning, even though it was only 2 degrees warmer. Lack of wind made the differencd. Down to two shirts. Ran another 8 at LLHR, 11:30/mile but lower heart rate than yesterday, 120 bpm. Foot a little more tender today, probably should have stopped at 5.
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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 |
| 40F, 95%, NW 1 mph. Pretty good weather today. Foot is still holding serve, so went 10 at LLHR, 11:12/mile, 120 bpm, quite a bit better than yesterday. Ran middle miles with Wade, who is also doing much better. We are supposed to get some very cold weather in, but it is unclear how far south the super cold air will come. Heavy winds this afternoon, which almost always brings frigid temps.
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| 29F (20 WC), 44%, N 9 mph. Pretty cold, very cold for Housto, though humidity was low and that helped. Still slow though, LLHR run, 10.0 miles at 11:56/mile, 121 bpm. Ran half of it with Wade.
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| Had jury duty this morning, had to be downtown at 8:00 a.m. and it is raining, so no chance to run today. Senator Ted Cruz was on the same panel as me. It was a media circus and I photobombed him a couple of times, two rows back in this one:
http://abc13.com/politics/sen-ted-cruz-reports-for-jury-duty/468405/
The secret for not getting picked off of a jury panel is to wear your best suit and try to say intelligent stuff. At least I got the suit part down. It worked, Ted and I both got off, though he told me he was looking forward to serving, which I think he has to say, but maybe he meant it.
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| 38F, 75%, NNE 7, raining off and on. This is what you get this time of year. Had to be done by 8:00, so I started at 4:25 a.m. and finished in plenty of time. 20 miles in 2:57:38, 8:53/mile, 148 bpm average, 154 max. Ran 5 or 6 in the middle with Wade, which was nice. He showed up at about mile 9, and when he was gone it was mile 14, like nothing had happened.
One objective today was to not speed up too much in the second half, try to save my legs for training next week. I stopped looking at my splits and heart rate after Wade left and I slowed down quite nicely. Last mile was 9:07.
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