| 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 | | 10.00 | 10.00 | 13.19 | 0.00 | 33.19 |
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| 43F, 86%, NNE 12 mph (WC 35F). LLHR again: 10.0 in 2:00:22, 12:02/mile. I should be getting my new heart rate strap in the mail this week so I can actually tell how fast I should be running these. Planned to do one more week of only low heart rate stuff, but I'm going to pull the plug and start workouts this week, 5 weeks before taper instead of 4. I have a race Saturday anyway, so the timing is good.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 33F, 89%, N 9 mph (WC 26F). Thought way too long about whether to wear pants this morning, decided to stay with shorts and that turned out fine. Wasn't cold after the first mile. Started out in the mid-8s and finished 10 in 1:19:28, 7:57 overall average. Mile 9 was fastest at 7:45, then really poured it on the last mile and got 7:52, a good sign that I was fading. But that's why we do workouts. I don't think this one was fast enough to qualify as a tempo but it felt hard. Wondering if I can do 7:30s in the half this weekend. It's going to be warm, so probably not, but I can still dream about the good old days, back when I was 57.
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The Woodlands Half Marathon (13.19 Miles) 01:38:34 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.19 | 0.00 | 13.19 |
| 38F, 85%, NE 10 mph, drizzling. I didn't run Wednesday through Friday of this week because of a deal that was closing at work, some days bedtime was as late as 4:00 a.m. So I got a forced taper even though I intended to train through this race. I picked up Wade at 5:00 and we drove out to The Woodlands to run the half marathon. Smooth is here running the marathon I think, but I couldn't find her before the race and we had to leave immediately afterward as Wade is driving to Wyoming today. I'll have to figure out my placement a little later.
I PR-ed in this race exactly 3 years ago. Knew that wasn't in the cards today, as I have not been doing any workouts yet in this training cycle, other than one brisk run on Tuesday. Even if I had been, it might not be in the cards, just getting a little too old to run low 7s for this distance (or any other). Wade has been running well and this was a target race for him. He was hoping for a PR and missed it by less than 20 seconds, but adjusting for course length he actually ran faster than on his PR day. His plan was to go out slow then settle into goal pace by mile 3. My plan was to stick with him as long as I could. Both plans worked well. We ran the first mile in 7:52 and the second in 7:32, then down into the teens and twenties after that. I pulled up even with Wade after mile 4 and remarked that we had already caught the 7:26 guy. He was feeling good and I wasn't doing too badly, the pace felt somewhat sustainable. After that he got ahead of me and I never caught up. I figured if I was to catch him it would be with a push at mile 10, and only then if he was fading. Then at about mile 8.5 he caught his foot in a pavement crack and went down hard. I was 20 seconds behind at the time and saw it all. He bounced right back up and kept running faster than before; very impressive and I never caught him, he never faded. Finished about 20 seconds behind him.
My own race went well until miles 12 and 13, where I recorded a 7:42 and a 7:33. Other than that almost everything was in the twenties and teens and my overall pace was 7:28/mile, though the official pace will be slower than that because they only credit me with 13.11 miles (don't get me started). Got my new HRM strap in the mail this week and wore it this morning for the first time. I think it is recording accurately, but won't know for sure until working out with it a few times.
Mile by mile splits are: 7:52, 7:32, 7:20 (172), 7:16 (174), 7:32 (175), 7:14 (176), 7:27 (174), 7:19 (174), 7:27 (174), 7:31 (174), 7:30 (173), 7:41 (173), 7:33 (174) and 7:03 (174) for the stub.
So even though the heart rate was high it felt sustainable. I lost a little bit of concentration in miles 10-12, but otherwise kept a good steady effort. Part of my plan for March is to run 3 metric marathons, the first at 8:00, then 7:45 and finally7:30, on the theory that if I can hit 7:30 for 16 then I can hit sub-8:00 for 26, which would be a PR. Based on this morning's results that might be too slow, but it's hazardous to extrapolate race results onto 5 a.m. solo workouts.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 10.00 | 13.19 | 0.00 | 33.19 |
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