| 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 | | 28.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 28.35 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.11 |
| 73F, 95%, SSE 7. LLHR run, 10.11 miles in 2:04:00, 12:16/mile, 121 bpm average. Legs still beat up from Saturday I assume, though the heat is building as well. At least it was a little faster than last Monday. Wade ran the middle 5 miles with me; we won't be doing much running together this summer as he is going to his summer place in Wyoming this weekend, he will probably be there through September or October. He was a good sport to run at my speed and commented that his legs felt rubbery at the end, just like mine do at these snail speeds. Might go up there in July and run a local half with him, undecided right now.
We also went to the outlet mall and got shoes. My Jinga sources are drying up, so I got some Merrill shoes that are light and have zero lift. With discounts they were half off. I haven't run in anything but Jinga for at least 4 years, so this could be interesting.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.24 |
| 68F, 100%, NW 2 mph. 8.24 miles in 1:33:24, 11:20/mile, 120 bpm.
Interesting run this morning, ran it in between storm cells. I didn’t run yesterday because the downpour started exactly when I went out the door. Today it started about 5 minutes after I came in. We have my grandson so I quit early anyway this morning, in case he woke up. At the 8 mile mark on Monday I had 12:09 as an average pace, ended up with 12:20 overall average as my heart rate climbed in the heat the last two miles. So a big difference between Monday and today, which shows how much a moderate effort on a long run in the heat can take out of you, at least early in the year.
I started out in the new Merrills I bought on Monday. They felt very light, but after 5 miles the right one was rubbing on the top of my foot. I stopped and loosened the laces but that seemed to make it worse. So I switched over to my Jingas. I went a little slower after that, presumably because it was later in the run, but I was curious how the weight compared. So I got out my son's food scales. The wet Merrill weighed 7.5 oz. The wet Jinga weighed 8.0. Then I weighed a dry Jinga (same style as the wet one) and it was 7.1. Then I weighed the dry Jinga racing version, slightly different style with a very thin sole. It came in at a featherweight 4.2, so definitely I will continue to race in those.
The Merrills seemed to make my right foot feel better, the one I have been struggling with all year, so they are going to be a good shoe once I get the laces figured out. And I would feel comfortable running trails in them as well. I don't do it often but it is nice to have a pair available.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 66F, 100% and calm. 10.0 miles i 1:53:04, 11:19/mile, 121 bpm.
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