| 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 | | 40.11 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 46.11 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| TM indoors, so no weather report. Didn't want to run in the cold and smog and get lost here in Beijing, so it was inside and I may stay there for the rest of the week. The facility at the hotel was pretty good, the TMs even had TVs on them, but couldn't get any channels, maybe mine was broken. So it was just like running outside in a way, nothing to entertain me except my own neurons and watching my form in the plate-glass window in front of me -- like I say, nothing to entertain me. Ran for 90 minutes at 1% incline and set the speed to bring me up to low heart rate, then decreased it slightly throughout the run to compensate for heart rate drift, which was pretty mild, it has been several days since I ran. So I think 10 minutes per mile is a pretty good estimate, which makes 9 miles worth of LHR effort. I was the first one in and the last one out. I guess runners have a different idea of what passes for a workout. There were also some ellipticals in there, but I stayed far enough away that I don't think I got infected. | | Comments(7) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Same exact thing as yesterday, minus the HR monitor. My Garmin is low on batteries, I think I left it on after yesterday and I am a bit far from home to put it on the charger cradle. I thought I could make it through four days on one charge but I guess not if I am going to do dumb things like that. Everybody out here is panicking about radiation from Japan. Certainly something to keep an eye on, but can't see that it presents any threat to China at this point. Might be a little bit of politics involved. Japan is a really good country, I was a missionary there 35 years ago. I hope they make it through this OK. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.11 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.11 |
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Saturday morning here in Beijing now. One quick tourist stop and then to the airport and home through the radiation. Made one last trip to see Mr. Treadmill this morning, 9 more at low heart rate. It was so early when I got in that the gym didn't have many lights on, just a few lights that created a mood lighting effect. I figured it would be just me but there was an unusual woman already in there, walking quickly on the treadmill. She was about 50, wearing a silk blouse with tight-fitting, knee-length jeans, which was OK. She was also wearing nylons, which was not OK. She was also wearing high heels. I guessed that she was in from an all-night party and had an 8:00 appointment for which she needed to be sober. Definitely one of the more unusual running guests I have seen. But then I reminded myself that I was wearing a hat, indoors, in the dark, and Brazilian dancing flats with a color scheme that most closely resembles the rentals at the 24-hour Bowl-a-Rama. In light of that, I wonder what her report was this morning.
P.M. We flew directly over the reactor in Japan coming home today. Have to wonder about United. As I arrived back in Texas I realized that I missed Tuesday but got two Saturdays this week, so decided to go out again since it had been a full 24 hours from this "morning's" run, which was really Friday night Houston time. I intended to do 10 at low heart rate. But it was about 80F and my heart rate wasn't staying low with the temperature and my jet-lagged legs unless I wanted to run in the 11s, which I wasn't willing to do since the family had things planned. After 3-1/2, I saw a guy about a quarter mile ahead and it was like a dog seeing a rabbit, my discipline was gone, almost trash talked him when I passed him but managed at least to hold that one in. I ran the last 6 in 8:02, 7:59, 7:53, 7:46, 7:56 and 7:25. Kind of a MP run, overall 10.11 miles in 1:27:54, average pace 8:41 per mile for the whole 10.
Pretty good week considering all the travel. Nerves in my right leg have been bothering me for the last couple of months, the faster I run the more they hurt later in the day but usually better the next morning in time to do it again. Driving can be painful at times. It comes from a herniated disk I got in the summer of 2008, after an especially bad (and my last) round of golf. That being said, the plan is to ramp it up again next week assuming my body holds up. | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 40.11 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 46.11 |
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