| 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 | | 51.30 | 16.00 | 3.70 | 0.00 | 71.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| 58F, 96%, E 2 mph, heavy fog. Weird weather morning, get plenty of these here in the spring. Left the house at 5:30, warmed up for about 2 minutes then 16 at GMP, my first metric marathon of the month. Kind of close to the race last Saturday, but I didn't go out yesterday due to work schedule and 3 days is enough -- I needed to get started on these. Had kind of a hard time maintaining pace, which wasn't ideal, but I made it through. My plan is to just get through the big workouts this month without worrying too much about the end game; whatever happens, happens. So today was 16.0 in 2:07:46, 7:59/mile, 163 bpm, 171 max. Didn't actually break 170 until the last mile, so that was good, especially since the conditions are pretty stifling out there. The lap counter on my watch filled up, but I guess it just drops the oldest miles because I have a complete lap count for the run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Work conflicts. Ran 5 on the TM in the evening, 1 wu, 2 up at 2% to 5%, 2 down at 4%.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.30 | 0.00 | 3.70 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 40F, 84%, N 16 to 24 mph (31 WC). I dressed too warmly for this weather, overestimated the wind chill effect, and sweated profusely the whole run. 3 wu, then 6 x 1K: 7:34 (159), 7:34 (166), 7:14 (169), 7:31, 7:24 (169) and 7:18 (170), 176 bpm max. Overall 10.0 in 1:24:17, 8:26/mile. Legs tired from late TM last night and big run on Tuesday -- otherwise felt OK. It was difficult to do anything significant in this kind of wind, but the workout served its purpose. I have calendared every day between now and Boston. If I can find the time to do what's on the calendar I will be fine.
PM: 5 hills on TM
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 31F, 67%, calm, clear, full moon. 40 degrees cooler than Wednesday morning. Exquisite running conditions, nothing like starting out with a full moon then watching the sun come up, makes me actually happy to be a runner. And it felt good to run slow. Did a LLHR run, 10.0 in 1:56:32, 11:39/mile, 120 bpm average; not too bad considering all the pressure I am putting on my legs the last few days. Finished with stretching and weights at the gym. All systems feel good.
PM: 5 hills on TM
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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 |
| 40F, 60%, cloudy and calm. Was supposed to be low 30s this morning, actually got warmer over night so the coldest part of the winter is now gone for good presumably. Plan this morning was a quick 20, not doing my next long long run until next week. First mile was 9:20, everything after that was pretty much below 8:45, with some mid-8s coming in at the 3/4 mark. Heart rate stayed below 150 through mile 15, it was 147 at mile 5 and 149 at mile 15, so it held very well on the middle miles, which would be a big help on race day if I can duplicate that. After mile 15 I sped up a little bit and maxed out at 157 bpm. Overall 20.0 in 2:54:08, 8:43/mile. Legs got a little ripe in the last quarter but not too bad. I still feel good but I may to take two days off instead of one, just to make sure I fully recover before doing some fairly hard runs next week. Very happy lately though with my quicker recoveries, which have allowed me to train better.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 51.30 | 16.00 | 3.70 | 0.00 | 71.00 |
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