| 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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| 61F, 100%, S 3 mph. Not too warm but extremely muggy out there, I don't think I understand well enough how humidity works. Ran 10.00 miles in 1:38:11, 9:49/mile, 144 bpm, 150 max (resting 55). Was hoping for a lower heart rate but this is OK for now. | | Comments(3) |
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| 66F, 100%, E 4 mph. 10.00 miles in 1:39:17, 9:57/mile, 142 bpm, 149 max. 53 RHR. | | Add Comment |
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| 64F, 100% and calm. 10.00 miles in 1:41:45, 10:10/mile, 140 bpm, 145 max, 55 RHR. | | Add Comment |
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| 47F (41 WC), 70%, NNW 14-22. 10.00 miles in 1:36:41, 9:41/mile, 146, bpm, 154 max. Record low temperature. | | Add Comment |
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41F, 96% and calm to start, 56F, 60%, SW 10 mph at end. Went to bed and 9 and woke up at 5, one of the better night's sleep I have had in a while. RHR in bed was 60, but got it down to 53 sitting in a chair after stretching and just before heading out at 5:50, late for a long run.
This morning's temperature was a record low for the month of May by 3 degrees. Funny thing, though, the same website that posted the 41F this morning is now saying the low for the day is 48F. I'm totally suspicious, I don't think record lows mesh well with certain political viewpoints. I know how it felt going outside, and it was not 48F.
But great running weather regardless. Around here there are not a lot of people running May through August, the big marathons in Texas are in the first quarter of the year, so this isn't anybody's training cycle. I did see Coach Eric out there, though. He was running quite a bit faster than me and I didn't try to join him. I am still fat and slow. I ran 20.00 miles, from my house down to the Y and back the long way. I took two detours on the way down totalling about a mile, and I had 10.5 when I got to the Y. On the way back I took a different detour for a tenth a mile so that I would finish before I got to my front door. Speed on the way down, slightly downhill overall, was 10:05 per mile. 9:25 on the way back for an overall speed of 9:45/mile. One water break at the Y, did not carry any water with me.
On the way back there was a woman leaving the Y just before me and running pretty well, so I chased her until she turned around at 3.5, then I maintained speed the rest of the way. Overall 20.00 miles in 3:15:00, 149 bpm, 171 max. RHR 53. Weight 169, down 2 pounds from last week but still 12 pounds over my best weight. My mileage is almost back, but at this weight my speed will take a while. I took some comfort in knowing that at race weight I would have been a lot faster.
I'm pretty happy with where I am right now, got in a good run on a fantastic day. The people who didn't run today because it is off-cycle missed a historic day, my first 20-miler since January 1 (also the record low, don't forget that). | | Comments(6) |
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