| 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 | | 80.97 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 80.97 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.17 |
| 60F, 96%, clear and calm. Beautiful weather in Houston right now, unfortunately still not running too well. 12.17 miles in 1:45:48, 8:42 per mile, 150 bpm. Very tired by the end of the day. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.47 |
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Forgot to record the weather data, but it felt about the same as yesterday. I went to bed very early last night, then woke up at 3 a.m. Finally went back to sleep at 4:30 and slept until 6, so I got out late. Felt lethargic for most of the run. I decided to back off on the pace a little bit, 13.47 miles in 2:05:45, 9:20 per mile, 144 bpm. Heart rate would have been lower except that in mile 10 I passed a woman who was going pretty slow. She decided she didn't like that and started drafting off of me (not kidding). No words exchanged. I finally gave up on my plan to keep heart rate under 150 no matter my speed, went to 160 for about a mile, turned around to look and she was out of sight. I had to do something.
About then a loose pit bull came prancing out (I was running through a redneck zone) and wouldn't go away. He wasn't overtly aggressive but I didn't trust him. Finally got rid of him by crossing a busy street -- when he tried to follow there was the sound of brakes screeching. He scurried back to his neighborhood, but I was pretty upset that somebody would just let a dog like that wander around, right when elementary school kids are catching their buses.
Can't believe how long it is taking to get over this flu. I skipped my flu shot this year, even though they are free at work, I won't do that again. When I got home I announced to my wife that I am old. She said "duh", which isn't even a word from our generation. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.07 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.07 |
| 60F, 100%, calm and clear. Felt better today. Also turned 57 today, nothing I could do about it. Ran 15.07 miles, trying to keep heart rate lower. 2:18:45, 9:13 per mile, 146 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.18 |
| 68F, 97%, ESE 4 mph. Getting quite a bit warmer, I don't think we will see sub-60 too many more times until late in October. Ran 10.18 miles, trying to keep heart rate around 140. 1:35:44, 9:24 per mile, 139 bpm. Just trying to get as many miles in as possible right now without over-running my conditioning. | | Comments(7) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.01 |
| 69F, 95%, calm and cloudy. Warming right up, left the mittens in the house today. Was planning on doing 15 but it worked out differently. I felt good after running slow yesterday, so found myself naturally speeding up. All of a sudden I was in the low 8s and I semi-accelerated into a near-marathon pace. I was doing well enough after mile 7 that I thought if I could hold the remainder all the way to mile 15 in the 7:30 to 7:40 range, I might re-think Boston. (I had gone through my mail just before going out, and BAA had sent me a corrected bib for a better corral, based on my SGM time rather than my qualifying time, so I had Boston on the brain.) But by the time I got to 10 I was done and I realized I had made the right decision. Still, it was fun to run fast after slogging all week. Splits were 9:06 (136), 8:07 (150), 8:02 (156), 7:54 (161), 7:58 (164), 7:42 (163), 7:35 (167), 7:41 (171), 7:50 (171, 7:42 (172). 10.01 miles in 1:19:39, 7:57 per mile, 160 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.07 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.07 |
| 66F, 100%, calm and cloudy. Got out the door at 5:00, then met Wade in his neighborhood at 6:00. We ran a while and met my daughter back at our house at 7:00. She is almost 6 months pregnant. Wade and I had been hitting about 9:45 per mile up until then, but my daughter got us going, we were in the low 9s by the time she peeled off after 4+ miles. Ran another mile with Wade, at which point I had 16.5, said good-bye and slogged out the remaining 3.5 in my neighborhood. I was fighting this run mentally all the way to dropping Wade off, it has been way too long since I ran 20 miles. At one point my cumulative pace was 9:41 -- I don't run much at this speed and it was playing with my head. Also started bleeding despite using BodyGlide, so I was holding my shirt away from my chest for 6 miles -- that was an unusual sight. But for the last 5K I picked it up naturally, wasn't really pushing anything, and felt better mentally. But not completely acclimated to the heat yet, it will take a couple of weeks, maybe longer. 20.07 miles in 3:10:27, 9:29 per mile. Forgot to look at the temperature when I got back but it was getting pretty warm, ran the last 5 miles on a couple of sips of water and felt a little nauseous when I got back. Lower gut was also hurting from running fast yesterday, but hopefully it will be OK by Monday. | | Comments(10) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 80.97 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 80.97 |
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