| 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 | | 4.00 | 12.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.40 |
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| 107F, 50% (DP 85F), calm. Ultimate vitamin D run. Was at a conference in Abu Dhabi and somehow running came up. A local group said they were going to the Formula 1 race track to take a lap. Not sure how much heat was coming up from the surface of the track in the late afternoon. Had to get a ticket and everything, it was an organized event, with music and one aid station out on the course. Got there a little bit late and started about 3 or 4 minutes after the gate opened, never saw the conference people.
I was crushed after the first 20 steps, was breathing very hard like I was running uphill or at altitude, or both. Eventually got somewhat used to it and managed to run kind of hard. Kind of cool out there on the track where the European drivers run; not actually cool I guess. Got water at about mile 1, that was the last water I saw.
At first I could barely pass the walkers. Then I caught my breath, saw a few joggers and passed them, then runners. There were so many twists and turns to the track I couldn't tell where the finish was and thought I might have passed it. But it lasted long enough (about 32 minutes) that I think I ran about 4 miles, even though it was advertised as 5K. I ended up passing every runner I saw, so maybe I won? There were also several hundred bikers out there, riding the opposite direction from the runners.
Thankfully I found the finish line and there was water there. My partner picked me up but was silent when I climbed in and got his BMW upholstery wet. He shouldn't have offered. Not sure if I will run any more this week, this one seemed sufficient.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| On the hotel TM. Still must be jet-lagged or something worse, legs felt very heavy, traveling is not kind on the body. I got it up to 10.4 km/hr after the wu, then escalated by 0.2 every K, then hit it hard the last split, ratcheting up every quarter or so and finishing at 14.0. Sweating like a farm animal at the end, even though the overall pace was only about 8:10/mile or something like that.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Same run but a little faster and more speed on the front end. Did the first 2K in about 12 minutes, then down to 4:40/km thereafter (13 km/hr). Finished with a 7:44 overall pace, but the last 8 were about 7:27/mile, not great but better than the previous one, and felt a lot better afterwards. Must be time to get on a plane again. I didn't bring a HR monitor or a watch with me, so I don't really know how hard I am working, other than by feel. If I could do one of these at 15 km/hr that would be a 40-minute 10K -- also, if could do it at 30 km/hr that would be a 20-minute 10K, but I might try to work up to that over several sessions.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 12.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.40 |
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