| 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 | | 42.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.52 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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Still working my sprained ankle, might be a couple of more days. 6.0 on the elliptical.
It is fun tracking family and friends running Boston this morning. Looks like the Americans failed again to win it, though, taking 4th and 5th in men's and nada in women's. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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More elliptical this morning, one hour. It will be that way for a few more days. Ankle is improving but not there yet. It is working different muscles, especially when I go backwards. I wouldn't be surprised if my speed isn't actually improved by the time I hit the road again, and I don't think I'll take much of a hit in conditioning either. That machine is hard.
I noticed that the top Boston finisher in my age group had a posted time of 2:42:27. I'm sure that is a typo. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 56F, calm and clear. Perfect morning for running, so off to the rec center. 6 miles (1 hour) on the elliptical, frontwards and backwards half and half. I can walk without a limp this morning, but I am leary of starting back too fast. I can jog a little bit, so maybe tomorrow I'll shuffle to the rec center and back instead of driving. I should be almost back to normal about the time I leave on an overseas business trip next week. Seems like everything is conspiring against my training in the last few days, but honestly I'm not frustrated yet, seems fine right now to take a small break, as long as it doesn't amount to more than that. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
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57F, calm and clear. Another great day to be inside, one hour on the elliptical. Actually, I ran a quarter mile to the rec center then back home after the workout, thus 6.5 today. Also a round of weights after the elliptical. Ankle is still somewhat sore, but it seems to loosen up somewhat if I push it just a little. Easier to run a quarter mile than a hundred feet, but my stride feels shuffly and awkward. And it feels more comfortable to land heels first, but from experience that leads to knee trouble.
Always something, this interruption came from nowhere, right at the end of my best run of the year, and totally unrelated to the other aches and pains that have been coming and going all year long. I am pretty certain it relates to some of the work I have been doing with my form, which means I am doing something wrong. I probably need a coach to work on my form with me, but it is hard to find the right combination of running and scientific credentials. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
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73F and raining, midsummer temperatures. Perfect elliptical day, though I did run a mile outside in addition to my hour on the machine. Still running with an awkward gait, but it is an improvement over yesterday. I am undecided about what to do for the weekend, maybe do 10 miles combined elliptical and running.
This has been a strange week. In addition to my gimpy ankle, my main client got sued, my brother got sued, my married son is in town trying to buy a house, my other son is going off the deep end (temporarily I hope, at least he can swim), clients still want their work done, and I am still not good looking. It all feels disjointed, like the wheels came off in a week. It will probably take a week to put them back on. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.02 |
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65F, blustery, high winds and threatening early, then clear and almost calm at the end. By the time I finished the weather was perfect and I was happy to be outside. I must have gone out at the end of a storm or something. I ran 3.67 miles in the dark (about 12 minute pace), then pulled into the rec center for 1 hour on the elliptical followed by weights, then finished up with another 1.35 (about 10:45 pace) under clear skies and low humidity. No heart rate monitor, regular shoes. My ankle was hurting at a low level most of the time but never got worse. I think my gait was getting a little smoother as well. On the second run things definitely felt better. So progress unless the ankle starts to feel bad today. I don't expect it.
As I was lifting weights I noticed something interesting. I have always had a small knot on my left leg down low on the outside, about 4 inches above the ankle but a little toward the front. I had assumed it was overgrowth from some long-forgotten sprain or something. Today while pushing weights with my legs I felt the knot and noticed it was contracting. It is muscle. I have the same muscle on the right side (duh), but it has little definition on that side. Obviously I am not using my left leg the same as my right when I run. Don't know what the difference is but there is no other explanation that I can think of. I think it would be cool to study anatomy. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 42.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.52 |
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