| 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 | | 26.50 | 15.77 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.27 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 2.66 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.66 |
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60F, low humidity and wind. My internal clock is still screwed up, so I woke up shortly after midnight and worked until daylight. Then went out for a quick run before going to meetings. I had aspirations of doing a LHR run but it wasn't working with all of the biorhythm disruptions I have right now. So I tried to not push it too hard but didn't worry too much about staying extremely slow. Ran 10.66 miles in 1:37:56, average pace 9:11 per mile (I know I'm in the Middle East, but I see absolutely no connection). I did let loose a little bit and took about 2-1/2 miles at MP, 7:36 and 7:22 plus a part of a mile until I got to a corner where I couldn't keep running.
Heading back to the U.S. in a couple of hours. This is an interesting place, it's like the whole place has been built in the last 10 years. A lot of the buildings are ridiculous, the architects were given the keys to the money vault and the accountants all went on vacation -- all kinds of outlandish buildings. It's like a contest. Construction cranes everywhere, everything for rent, no landscaping, nothing seems finished. Kind of a sterile feeling, actually. After finishing work today I toured a museum. Other than a few pottery shards, it appears that their history started about when I was born. Makes me a relic too, I guess. | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.40 |
| 43F, 84%, W 8 mph. LHR run, 8.40 miles in 1:20:34, 9:36 per mile, good pace for this type of run. Felt cold after traveling in warmer places. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 13.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.11 |
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44F, 65%, N 17-24, wind chill 36F. Trying to get a little sympathy on the wind chill but I know it is hopeless with all the Utah runners on this blog. At least my son thought it was cold. 16F and then we could have a conversation. I hate running in the dark when it is either raining or blowing; at least it was dry today. But when I left my cul de sac and turned into the heavy north wind I immediately gave up on my long slow plans, just wanted to get this one over with. Plan was to go 12 slow, but I needed to finish early anyway, so I ran a full half (I mean half of a full) at pretty close to marathon pace, at least for my current conditioning.
Splits were 9:19, 8:24, 7:53, 7:51, 7:42, 7:43 (161), 7:41, 7:49, 7:44, 7:53, 7:45, 7:46, 7:49 then burned in the stub split at a blistering 8:11 (172) pace. Legs were trashed but I didn't feel too tired, exactly what I would expect after doing a lot of base work and no speed work. Hopefully the legs will come back. If they do maybe I can break 1:30 this year, basically a full minute per mile faster than today.. Today was 13.11 miles in 1:44:11, average pace 7:57 per mile. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
| 28F, 86% and calm. Cold but dressed warm. 10.10 LHR miles at 10:10 per mile, how often does that happen? Glad I could run slow enough to pull it off. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 26.50 | 15.77 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.27 |
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