| 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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| 72F, 94% (DP 70F), SE 4 mph and clear. Back to LLHR this week, 10.0 in 1:48:22, 10:50/mile. A little better than Friday, plus slightly lower heart rate and warmer today; but nothing like the 10:19 I hit a week ago Friday, when it was 75F. Not sure why things swing like that, not like I am loaded up on miles right now. Makes me wonder what would happen if I reloaded, but not ready to try anything like that just yet. I am still at about the same LLHR speed as going into Boston, even though those runs were on a full training load. Finished with stretching and weights (donkey kicks (180#) and leg curls (80#)).
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| Started outside for my run this morning, but the weather hadn't moved out -- the sky was still bright with lightning so I turned back and drove to the gym, where I did 10 on the TM, LLHR. Checked my pulse on the handgrips and it was staying well below 120 bpm, so I sped up to a 10:00 pace. Based on this metric, the difference between TM and road running seems to be about 30 seconds/mile. Office closed today due to flooding downtown.
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| Ran 10 LLHR on TM again. Violent thunder and lightning when I woke up, so much so that I was afraid to walk from my car to the gym. Did it anyway, finished with stretching and weights (donkey kicks (180/185) and squats (135/125). Rain was gone by mid-morning and hasn't been an issue since, unless your house got flooded, in which case it is an issue.
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| 72F, 92% (DP 70F), calm and clear. Got out late, as my daughter had her baby last night, grandchild number 6. When I get more grandkids than marathons I'm definitely quitting. 10.0 LLHR, 10:43/mile, 122 bpm. Followed with stretching and jump rope.
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| Got ready to run, noticed another front coming in on the weather app, bulge pointed straight at Cypress, decided to try it anyway. When I walked out the door, the lightning and thunder were already lighting up the western sky, so I decided not to try it anyway. Back to the gym, 10 LLHR on the TM, followed by stretching and weights.
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| 73F, 94% (DP 71F), SSW 1 mph, clear. Made it back outside this morning, very pleasant run with sub-par results. 10.0 LLHR in 1:49:35, 10:58/mile, 122 bpm. My pace drift from fastest mile to last mile was 40 seconds, which seemed like a lot. I checked out the other two outside runs this week and they were both 36 seconds. Seems like pace drift in the LLHR zone should measure some sort of training effect. But two weeks ago when I was nailing these LLHR runs, my pace drift between the best split and mile 10 was all over the place, from 45 seconds down to 10. So not really a meaningful metric, at least the way I am looking at it.
Regardless, I seem to be stuck, which might indicate some sort of a problem, or it might be OK for right now, just a patience game. Going to Dubai tonight. I'll probably mess around with the hotel treadmill a couple of times, but basically an off week (as if this week wasn't), time to think through a few things training-wise.
Finished with lunges and jump rope.
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