| 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 | | 29.97 | 6.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 37.97 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.57 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.57 |
| 45F, 6.57 miles @ 8:36/mile, 149 bpm, 158 max, fast split 8:27. Groin still bothering me, but somewhat runnable, took the weekend off, starting with Thursday.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| 43F. 6.5 miles @ 8:24/mile, 154 bpm, 165 max, fastest split 7:49. Starts out somewhat painful in the hip flexors, then things loosen up and I can run OK, though it is always there.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 37F. 6.0 at 8:29 pace, fastest split 7:53, 151 bpm average, 161 max. Heart-rate wise, was a little better than yesterday.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 53F. 6.0 at 8:10/mile. First split 9:05, last split 7:40, 155 bpm, 170 max. Hip flexors felt a little looser, felt somewhat relaxed at the higher speeds, so making progress. The good thing about these short runs is I can do them hard and come back the next day for a repeat. I'm thinking of going up to Grand Rapids to run the 25K again in May, with a goal of breaking 2 hours. The course measures long, of course, so I have to average about 7:35-7:37 to actually hit 2 hours, though the math, when you calculate minutes per mile for 25K, comes out to only 7:43. The distance is short enough I think I can maybe pull it off without doing a lot of long stuff, since the race ends right before the bonk.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| 55F. 6.0 at 9:10 pace, 140 bpm, 148 max. Really sore this morning, only one split under 9:00, kind of amazing, really.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.70 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.70 |
| 55F. Wade drove to my house and we ran in the neighborhood. 2 warmup, then 2 fast ones, then 2.7 cooldown. The fast ones were 7:31, 7:14, average heart rate for the run 155, max 174 bpm. Best stride length was 1.12 meters. Overall 8:10 pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 29.97 | 6.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 37.97 |
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