| 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 | | 35.84 | 0.00 | 15.00 | 0.00 | 50.84 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.45 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 10.45 |
| 76F, 88% (71 DP), SSW 8 mph. Took the rest of last week off and my foot felt better this morning. Ran 10.45 miles in 1:28:32, 8:28/mile, 164 bpm average, 184 max. Active wu for 3 miles, then wanted 2 hard at 7:43, which is my goal pace for the upcoming race. They came in faster than that: 7:27 (173) and 7:30 (180). But I suffered somewhat in the heat; the rest of the week will be cooler. Then finished out the run in the 8:40 range. Goal is to go hard again on Wednesday and Saturday, at increasingly longer distances.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.17 |
| 66F, 100%, S 5 mph. 6.17 miles in 1:13:59, 11:59/mile. LLHR: 121 bpm average, 128 max. Weights and stretching.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.07 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 10.07 |
| 58F, 51%, NNW 5 mph. 10.07 miles in 1:22:07, 8:09/mile. 162 bpm average, 180 max. Better results today. Warmed up then 5 fast then 3 active cd. Fast ones were 7:44 (163), 7:37 (170), 7:38 (173), 7:22 (176) and 7:28 (178), 7:34 average for the 5, slightly slower than Monday but 5 miles instead of 2 and 172 bpm instead of 177 -- mostly attributable to cooler weather I presume, but this is more like race conditions will be.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.11 |
| 48F, 92% and calm. Pretty stellar running weather, undoubtedly the last sub-50 day I'll see for 6 months. LLHR: 6.06 miles in 1:11:14, 11:46/mile, 120 bpm average, 125 max. Then 1.05 miles with dog, followed by weights and stretching. Foot has held up well this week.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.04 |
| 56F, 68%, WSW 3 mph. Still good weather. LLHR: 6.04 miles in 1:10:47, 11:43/mile, 121 bpm, 128 max. Tomorrow semi-long and hard.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 62F, 68%, WSW 3 mph. Pretty good morning, a bit breezy to start (not 3 mph, despite the weather report) but died down pretty much after about a half hour. I wanted to do 10 fast but settled for 8. It is good progress, but probably won't get me to my goal pace a week from today unless I am feeling really good that morning. The weather is projected to be somewhat cooler, but the course profile shows some hills, though it doesn't look too bad on YouTube.
I warmed up for 3, starting at 9:26 down to 8:23, then ran the remaining 8 at a 7:38 pace (goal was 7:43). Started out at 7:52 so I felt like I was in a hole the whole time, even though I got ahead of the 7:43 guy about halfway through. About then I was feeling bad enough that I realized that if I went for 10 I might be running my race today instead of next Saturday; 10 at this pace is almost like running 20 at 8:00, not a good tapering strategy. So I shifted my head into an 8-mile mode, finished with a 7:29, stopped exactly there and walked home.
Good thing I quit early, because when I got back to the house I found my daughter just arriving home from the senior prom. Actually, she is a grounded kid and he seems relatively harmless -- my wife told his parents at pictures last night that me and my son had decided that their son was safe, to the point we passed on the customary gun-cleaning ceremony at our first meeting. Nevertheless, I "invited" her in, and she "complied". They went to an all-night event after the prom where they lock everybody down in a structured environment and eat and play video games all night I guess.
The race next weekend is called the Fifth Third River Bank Run in Grand Rapids, where my father now lives. I don't know anything about the strange name, but apparently it is the national chapionship 25K race, prize money and everything. They have something called a 2-hour club, which comes to a 7:43 pace, which happens to be right on the edge of my training level. If the course is long (I know, they all are, even Boston apparently, judging from some of the race reports), I probably need 7:40 just to be safe. If I had been able to do 10 this morning I would have felt somewhat confident. But 8 is what I got, and you get what you got.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 35.84 | 0.00 | 15.00 | 0.00 | 50.84 |
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