| 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 | | 5.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.22 |
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| No real progress. I think it must be my herniated disc flaring up again. It is an old injury which has resulted in numbness on the bottom of my right foot continually since it happened four years ago. There isn't any place I can push to stimulate muscle pain, and it doesn't improve like a regular muscle or tendon injury would do. Definitely not an overuse injury, I was not running big miles when it happened. It might be related to lifting weights. This morning I did an hour on the stationary bike, got my heart rate up to 158 at one point. Planned to do it again tonight, but it didn't feel too good during the day today. If I can't spin then I am toast, probably am anyway. | | Comments(4) |
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| Did spin bike for one hour this morning, for the third straight day. Actually getting better at it, moved from 15.5 mph to 16.8, and got my heart rate up to 169 for short bursts. I don't know how much conditioning it is preserving, but I get a good endorphin dose out of it. I went to a chiro this afternoon who specializes in sports injuries and they worked me over pretty good. They say my right hamstrings are the source of all my ills, they don't think it's the back at all. I'm a little skeptical, but it's not like I have any answers. I have to do ice and some prescribed stretches twice a day, not too bad for homework. They also put that black tape all over my back, didn't totally follow the explanation for that either. The chiro runs a 2:02 half, so he is in the mix. They said I could run by feel, so it's back out on the pavement in the morning to see how it goes. Still hope for Grandma's, I have until June 1 to pull out without forfeiting my housing money. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.22 |
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73F, 88%, SSE 6 mph, partly cloudy. Summer weather patterns are starting to take permanent hold. I felt about the same when I got up, but armed with the chiro's encouragement I went out and ran. 5.22 miles in 45:04, 8:38 per mile, 151 bpm. Even correcting for the heat and humidity I have lost 4 or 5 bpm in conditioning, could have been worse and might still be. The back/glutes/abs/whatever it is were an issue the whole time, iced immediately but still seized up like an overheated engine when I tried to get out of the car after driving my daughter to school. Limped around for a while fixing my breakfast, could hardly put any weight on the leg. Then all of a sudden it improved, shortly after taking two Ibuprofen. I never take drugs. Actually, I think the improvement was starting to happen anyway, but not sure, maybe this stuff kicks in really fast? If they hadn't told me I could run I would be thinking right now that I had made a serious mistake. I'm going to keep my other appointment on Monday, see what he says. The best I can say for this morning is non-definitive, trending toward negative. But it's just one day. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.22 |
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