| 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 | | 70.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.14 |
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| 42F, 73% and calm. The weather website early this morning said 51F so I went out in short sleeves, hat and bare hands. I knew right away that the website was wrong but gutted it out. LLHR, 10.0 miles in 1:59:10, 11:55/mile, 121 bpm. Met Wade for about 5 of it. Started out in upper 12s but felt better after a couple of warmup miles. Pretty much recovered from Saturday -- I had a bug going through my gut was the main problem, felt much better this morning even though I am still jet-lagged.
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| 49F, 73%, WSW 7 mph. My heart rate monitor wasn't working this morning, so I did the LLHR run by feel. I could actually feel myself slowing down towards the end, don't know if I was imagining it or not. Ran it at 11:49 pace, which seems about right, though it might have been too fast since doing weights yesterday.
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| 45F, 94%, ESE 1. Another LLHR run without a HRM, so guessing at the proper speed. Did the run at 11:52/mile. My legs got so sore last night from lifting on Monday that I could barely walk to bed. But they were good enough to run on when I got up and seemed to loosen up quite a bit during the run. Didn't have any more trouble with them throughout the day.
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| 59F, 96%, SSW 7 mph, heavy fog. I think that wind readout is wrong -- I am very close to being ready to install my own weather station and I will have accurate measurements. Got to bed very late last night, so a late start, but same run, 10 at LLHR, this time 11:30/mile. It felt the same as the last two days, but hard to tell without the HRM. Trying to fix it, I found a website that said to hold the battery on the strap in its slot backwards for 10 seconds, then wait 30 seconds, put it in frontwards, close it up and try it again. It worked, but nobody seems to know why. If I was Einstein that would bother me. It doesn't bother me.
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| 50F, 61%, NNE 9 mph. Blustery out, which slowed me down some, but got out for another 10 LLHR miles, this time at 11:28/mile, 120 bpm. Glad to have the HRM back in order. Comparing today to yesterday, I think I ran yesterday at about the right speed, not having the HRM. Running these kinds of miles really helps me embrace Saturday long runs.
Did weights, 2 x 10 kicks at 130, 3 x 10 squats at 105. Recovered much better than on Monday. Got in 3 sessions this week.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.14 |
| 44F, 72%, ENE 7 mph, colder than expected this morning. First step at 4:05, ran 20.14 miles in 2:57:38, 8:49/mile, 151 bpm average, 161 max. Ran 8.5 on my own, then 9 with Wade, then 2.5 more to get back home. Got a little tired in the middle but finished strong without undue difficulty. Better run than last week.
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