| 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 | | 64.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.00 |
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| 43F, 100%, NW 5 mph. Rained some more last night, but good running weather this morning. Another LLHR run, 10.0 in 1:56:34, 11:41/mile, not too bad for a Monday after a weekend long run. Pretty happy with my feet right now, still sore but recovering, and I am starting to lose a little bit of weight again. Have to travel at the end of this week but hopefully I can get my running in before then.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 44F, 89%, N 8 mph, gusting to 15, rain. Wasn't any rain scheduled, but the running gods control the weather as an ancillary activity and they don't have laptops. I walked outside to set my watch, saw the rain and decided to go to the gym. But I was scheduled to meet Wade and I couldn't raise him on his phone so I went out anyway, figuring the worst that could happen is death. Rain finally stopped at mile 8, but my long-sleeved cotton shirt was soaked, to the point it wouldn't even hang straight off of my shoulders. I started out at low heart rate but immediately met up with Wade and he was already running sub-9s so I moved up to his speed. First mile was 9:53, then 4 with Wade, 8:25 progressively down to 8:02, then sped up again for the final 5: 8:02 (163), 7:34 (167), 7:40 (172), 7:39 (174) and 7:34 (179). Altogether 10 in 1:21:20, 8:08/mile, 158 bpm, max 181.
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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 |
| 43F, 73%, NNE 10 mph. Much better weather today. Ran 10 at LLHR, 1:56:11, 11:37/mile, 121 bpm. Surprised it went pretty well after running fairly hard yesterday.
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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, 87%, NW 2 mph and light rain. It's good they get rid of the suspense by making you say your miles first thing. Ran 'em at LLHR (shocker), got 11:19/mile today, 120 bpm. Maybe I'll try something different tomorrow. Maybe not.
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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 |
| 30F, 100% and calm. Started out 34F but during the run it felt like it was getting colder and windshields were starting to frost up. Re-checked it when I got back, right at dawn and it was a lot colder. Even while running the cold was settling into my old bones. Ran my usual, 10 at LLHR, 11:20/mile, 120 bpm. Thought it might go faster today but my heartbeat stayed higher to keep me warm, I think. What was interesting, though, is that miles 7-10 (compared to yesterday), went like this: 11:11 (10:51), 11:20 (11:20), 11:05 (11:12) and 10:55 (11:23). Yesterday was a modest tail-off, pretty much like I see every run like this. I can't explain today, have never had mile 10 as the fastest mile and not sure why it happened -- no difference in heart rate.
Also, when I got home I noticed that my long-sleeved tech shirt with race logo all over it was on backwards. This is why I run in the dark.
Long run tomorrow then tomorrow night off to Dubai/Abu Dhabi for a week. At best I will get in 4 days of running over there, maybe not even that.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 41F, 82%, SSE 1 mph. Good morning for a run. I am getting on a plane this afternoon for a blue water flight. My wife strongly suggested I run only 10, so as not to repeat the back injury that happened the last time I boarded a long flight after running long. I assured her that I was in good enough shape and wouldn't run faster than 9:00.
So I ran at 8:39/mile instead, overall time 2:53:09. Started at 4:38 a.m. and ran 5 or 6 in the middle with Wade. Overall heart rate was 148 bpm, same as last week. Comparing last 5 miles this week and last week [in brackets]: 16: 8:41 (153) [8:57 (151)]; 17: 8:36 (153) [8:55 (152)]; 18: 8:41 (154) [8:57 (153)]; 19: 8:34 (155) [8:56 (154)]; and mile 20: 8:38 (156) [9:08 (154)]. A lot of numbers that say my body is recovering from all the abuse and getting back to normal. This run felt easy.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 64.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.00 |
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