| 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 | | 25.00 | 6.20 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 37.20 |
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| More TM time, a little slower overall than Saturday.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 77F, 85% (DP 72F), SW 5 mph. Back out on the streets in Houston, very early and pretty jet-lagged. Did 6 LLHR, about 11:22/mile, not a good result but not surprising I suppose. Off on another plane today, so more TM miles ahead.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 on the hotel treadmill (Panama this week) in 43:22, 7:13/mile. This felt much easier than the last TM run on Monday, which is undoubtedly a reflection of how the belt speed is metered. First mile came in at about 8:30 overall, was planning to do 5 x 1K at 7:00, but the first one was easy enough that I changed plans and pushed it through as a tempo run at the same speed, then sped up at the end: last split was run at 6:40 pace for the first half, 6:18 for the second half, but who knows what the actual speed was. The TM had a bar you could grip and it would read out your heart rate. at 4.75 miles I took a reading, 164 bpm, which isn't even close to a tempo speed, should have been in the 175-185 range for an extended run in the low 7s. I didn't get the same rapid deterioration I got in Dubai at 14 km/hr (6:53/mile) until I took it down to 6:18 for the last half mile. So throw this one out.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 19.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.00 |
| 77F, 90% (DP 74F), SE 10 mph, raining off and on. Pretty nasty conditions, trying to rain but not succeeding, gets really humid when that happens. Jet-lagged, I woke up at 2:30 and finally left for the run at 3:57 a.m. Not a whole lot of company, just me and the paper guy, who basically tries to run me down every time he sees me.
I intended to run 20, haven't done that since before Boston, intentionally, but thought I needed to get a long one in even though that isn't the focus right now. I was interested to see what would happen after doing a lot of fast treadmill work lately. I took what felt like an easy pace and the splits were coming in naturally between 8:15 and 8:30, so I went with that. Heart rate climbed gradually from the mid-140s, reaching high 160s toward the end. At about mile 17 I slowed down quite a bit and started to feel the effects of the heat, so I decided not to run the last mile. It was one of those workouts where I had to lay down afterward. Overall 8:26 pace. I needed this run and will probably do it every other week or so until I start a more rigorous endurance regimen for my fall races.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 25.00 | 6.20 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 37.20 |
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