| 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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| 79F, 83% (DP 73F), S 7 mph, trying to rain. 8.5 in 1:30:36, 10:40/mile. Individual splits all over the place, from 10:17 to 11:04, hard to say why, as heart rate was a steady 121-122. Stretching and weights at the gym (Boston Strong shirt. pink hat, MMF shoes, nobody bothered me though). Lunges at home. Started jump rope training. Got two in a row. Once.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 69F, 94%, WSW, moving to ENE, raining and unsettled. Out the door at 5:30 a.m. for 12, half of them with Wade. 2:07:47, 10:39/mile. Pace started out at 11:04, went down to 10:15, then finished at 11:12. At 8 miles I had a 10:31 average (close to a record), compared to 10:40 yesterday, so the cooler weather made a big difference, even with sore legs from lifting yesterday. Lots of weather in the region right now, but so far we have been spared. Finished with stretching, rolling and lunges.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 69F, 94% (DP 66F), E 6 mph. Good running weather for the second morning in a row; met Wade for about half of the miles -- he is off to Wyoming and won't see him for at least 2 weeks. Out at 5:25 a.m. for 12 LLHR miles, 2:04:57 total, 10:25/mile, which is 11 seconds faster than the baseline pace set on May 2 at 60F. Further, my 5-mile pace, 10:22/mile, is 9 seconds faster than my previous overall LLHR best, also a 5-mile run. Mile 5 came in at a magical 9:55. Doesn't take much to make me happy.
Followed with stretching and weights at the gym, lunges and jump rope at the house. Starting to get the hang of getting both feet in the air simultaneously, at precisely the moment the rope hits the ground. I have stopped watching boxers' jump rope videos. I can't see the rope and I don't think they actually have one.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 72F, 95%, 70DP, ESE 2 mph, partly cloudy. Another 12 at LLHR, 10:29/mile, 2:05:52 total run time. Figured I would be in the high 10:30s, then at mile 9 I hit a 10:09 and I was home free. With weights yesterday, big meal last night, heart rate slightly more under control, and DP 4 degrees higher, this morning was comparable to the 10:25 yesterday, maybe a little better. Last mile was 25 seconds faster than the first mile, which is the best metric of the morning. A couple of days ago the last mile pace was slower than first mile pace. Finished with stretching and jump rope.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.10 |
| 75F, 94% (73 DP), SE 3 mph and cloudy. Very wet week, rained again hard yesterday but relatively calm this morning. Got in a good LLHR run, 48 hours after my last weight session. 10.1 miles in 1:44:10, 10:19/mile, fastest so far. Slowest split after the warmup mile was 10:29. Did stretching and weights (donkey kicks and squats) at the gym afterward.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.40 |
| 76F, 93% (73 DP), SE 3 mph. Decided to finish off the week at LLHR, so ran 15.4 more in 2:44:42, 10:42/mile, quite a bit slower than yesterday but I was fine with it. This is the first time I remember running exclusively low heart rate miles for an entire week, though I'm sure I must have done it at some point. Back to workouts next week, along with a little bit of traveling. I'm going to alternate for a while and see how it goes, seems like it might be a good way to improve at both ends without gettting overextended, but time we tell.
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