| 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 | | 78.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 78.33 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
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67F, 98% and calm. 10.0 miles in 1:38:21, 9:50/mile, 52 RHR, 140 bpm, 147 max. Trying to keep it slow and easy this week.
PM: 95F, 33%, N 7 mph. 6.0 miles in 54:08, 9:01/mile; no HRM but felt like 170-180 at the end. Started out OK but quickly wilted in the heat. Last mile is mostly uphill coming back into downtown from the bayou bottom, including an imposing ramp to get up to street level. That was hard. Probably sabotaged my runs for the rest of the week. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.15 |
| 69F, 100% and calm. 12.15 miles in 2:02:22, 10:04/mile. 55 RHR, 138 bpm average, 145 max. Tried to take it slow, but I was still hurting by the end of the day. Contemplated not running on Wednesday. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.18 |
| 70F, 100% and calm. Nice running weather this week. Decided to play it by ear this morning, but when I got up I had recovered enough to run a little. I went out and ran at a very comfortable pace, which almost equated to my low heart rate runs of a couple of years ago. 6.18 miles in 1:03:15, 10:14/mile. 58 RHR, 133 bpm, 137 max. Was back to normal in a few minutes after the run, I'll try to get out this afternoon for a vitamin D session. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
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73F, 100% and calm. Getting warmer. 10.00 miles in 1:39:14, 9:56/mile, 138 bpm, 148 max. Ran the first 4 with Jessie, our border collie; she did fine, but certainly wasn't wanting any frisbee time later.
PM: 100F and calm, not sure of the humidity, but it is going to be a long, hot summer, perfect for my training plan. Ran from downtown starting about 1:00 p.m.. It was very hot, but I knew from doing a couple of previous daytime runs not to take it too fast and I survived OK. Not sure how I will feel in the morning though. 10.00 at 9:48/mile, no HRM (it gets soaked from the morning run so I don't bring it to work) -- lots of construction on the bayou trail so I had to improvise.
I weighed 163 on the scales in the locker room this afternoon, compared to 170 after my run this morning on my bathroom scales. I don't think I was really 7 pounds lighter, maybe 3. I don't want to obsess about my weight, but 170 is too heavy for me to run fast, it just is -- I need good data. | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 68F, 100%, NNW 6 mph. Much cooler, wind turned to the north and the air was very fresh. Ran right at dawn and it was great. 10.00 miles in 1:41:55, 10:12/mile, RHR 52, 131 bpm, 136 max. Possibly my first true low heart rate run in a long time -- I'm happy about my heart rate coming down, hopefully it isn't just temporary. I could tell from a familiar kind of fatigued feeling at the end that I was burning a high percentage of fat. Legs have felt tired all day, quite a lot of miles on them this week. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| 67F, 93% and calm. Ran 13.0 miles in 1:53:53, 8:46/mile, 152 bpm, 165 max. Then drove with my daughter and two granddaughters out to Humble for a 1-mile kids mud run, put on by Steve and Paula Boone, who also do the New Years Day marathon in Kingwood and a number of other races around here. Had a great time and came in last. I took Jane, the 3-year old and Jennifer ran with Kate, who is 6. Jane is outgoing and headstrong, but hates getting dirty. She was not happy from the first puddle, so we started going around all of them. About halfway through she noticed her mom and sister about 20 yards ahead of us and became immediately indignant: "Grandpa, they're trying to win! We have to make our feet go more fastly." So I'm counting it as another slow mile, but I won't be filing a race report. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 78.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 78.33 |
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