| 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 | | 39.80 | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
| 59F, 99%, E 6 mph and clear. Getting ready for another front, but hasn't arrived yet, so just a warmer than normal winter run. 10.10 LLHR miles in 1:55:30, 11:26/mile, 120 bpm, 126 max. A lot of Saturday left in my legs, took a while to get moving very well at all. Short lifting session at the end, seeing if I can get 3 sessions a week in by shortening the session but maintaining the intensity.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.50 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 30F, 60%, N 5 mph. With the wind it seemd like a 3-shirt morning, but turned out pretty sweaty with that much clothing. No long pants though. I didn't run yesterday because we supposedly had another ice storm coming in and I needed to get to work early to beat the traffic. The storm didn't get icy until noon and by the time I got home the roads were dry. Temps were about 2 degrees warmer than the last storm on Friday and that made a big difference.
Ran 10.00 miles in 1:20:06, 8:01/mile, 159 average heart rate, 167 max. I was surprised at how difficult this is, once I finish with these series of GMP runs I am going to make a table and track my progress or decline, as the case may be. Today's splits were 8:29, 8:00 (155), 7:56 (157), 7:57 (160), 7:57 (161), 7:59 (162), 7:58 (162), 8:01 (162), 7:57 (162 and 7:52 (165). 0.5 CD then finished with stretching and lifting at the gym.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.50 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 27F, 82%, E 5 mph. I don't think it was this cold, I am going to have to get my own weather station because the sites on the computer are not accurate. They extrapolate too much. I wore three shirts again but again it was too warm. It will be much warmer the rest of the week. The computer-reported temperature was already 34F by the time I finished.
Ran 10.00 miles in 1:18:52, 7:53/mile, average 164 bpm, max 170. Splits were 8:10, 8:02 (159), 7:34 (162), 7:46 (163), 7:54 (164), 8:03 (164), 7:52 (165), 7:59 (166) 7:52 (166) and 7:41 (169). So I ran quite a bit hotter than yesterday, but I didn't feel like I was working any harder. Finished with 0.5 CD. I don't normally run consecutive workouts like this, but I am quite a ways out from my next race and kind of experimenting with what I can withstand and whetherr I can get my legs to recover faster. I may run hard again tomorrow if I can manage it.
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| 58F, 96%, SSE 6 mph. Dramatically warmer. Legs are quite tired so I gave up on the fast stuff, did a LLHR run but only logged 11:31 per mile, 121 bpm, max 126. Finished off with stretching and weights.
I went out at 6:00 instead of 5:00. One guy putting his trash out said hi, you're running late this morning. Had never seen him in my life. I'm fooling myself if I don't think everybody in this neighborhood keeps a running log for me, don't know why I bother to do my own.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.70 |
| 64F, 93%, S 7 mph. Joined Wade for a long run this morning, plan was to go down to the Y and back, 20 at an easy 9:00 pace, but the week had caught up with me, the lifting more than the running I think. If there had been a vehicle at the Y I would have called it a day. Found some shortcuts coming back and finished with 18.70 at 9:17/mile. Heart rate held pretty steady, 147 average and 160 max, just tired legs. Taking it easy for a few days until I feel recovered. Recovered pretty quickly over the weekend, thankfully.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 39.80 | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.80 |
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