| 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 | | 60.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.45 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.19 |
| 64F, 95%, WNW 5 mph. 10.19 miles in 1:30:29, 8:52/mile 143 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.06 |
| 62F, 99%, calm. 10.06 miles in 1:25:13, 8:28/mile, 146 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| No running, up until 3:00 with a roomful of clients in Guam (me stateside). Put a stake through my running plans for the week. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.16 |
| 62F, 99% and calm. Legs very fresh after a day off, even though not much sleep since I am still up at night with my clients in Guam. Ran 10.16 miles in 1:20:01, 7:53/mile, 158 bpm. Speed kept getting naturally faster until I hit 7:27 in mile 6, so I decided to hold that pace to the end. Last 4 (including mile 6) were 7:27 (164), 7:23 (169), 7:28 (172) and 7:40 (175). Obviously I started to tire toward the end, but it was fun feeling the surge for a brief moment. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.04 |
| 66F, 94%, ESE 5 mph. 10.04 miles in 1:28:37, 8:50/mile, 142 bpm. Third night in a row with little sleep, but felt better once I got going. Let's were sluggish at first after yesterday's run, but warmed up well. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 74F, 84%, SSE 11-18 mph to start (6:10 a.m.); 76F, 79%, SSE 14-23 to end (9:05 a.m.) partly cloudy. This was a difficult run. Got a late start because I was trying to catch up on sleep a little bit. I planned to this run at 9 flat but legs naturally sped up, down into the low 8s at one point, then because of the way the course was laid out I went for an 8-mile segment with no water and ended up getting into trouble with the heat/humidity/sunlight. I turned around to go home at 15 because I was feeling dizzy, but really didn't want to log a 15 today, especially after everything else that has taken away from running this week. At that point I was averaging 8:38, so I slowed back down to a 9:00 pace then sped up a little bit through the end. Ran the twists and turns so I had 20 right at my front door, didn't want to run a step extra. Overall 20.00 miles in 2:54:20, average 8:43/mile, 158 bpm, 173 bpm maximum. Heart rate climbed throughout. Normally I am ravenous when finishing a 20, but today I didn't want anything. Managed to drink a glass of chocolate milk and that was it. Feel almost like I just ran a marathon. I have 3 hard 20-milers coming up, this wasn't supposed to be one of them. But the important thing was putting in the effort and letting the chips fall where they may. For me that approach has usually turned out fine, so I am not worrying. | | Comments(11) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 60.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.45 |
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