| 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 | | 15.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.90 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.14 |
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76F, 89%, SSE 4 mph. Nice running weather this morning, slept in and it was already light when I headed out. 3.14 pi-shaped, LHR miles at 9:49 per mile. Legs felt normal walking around yesterday so I thought it was time to get out, but they were definitely weak by the third mile. I'll just come back slow. It's been 5 days since the marathon, haven't really changed any of my conclusions, just a sub-par effort most likely traceable to an unsettled stomach. My son said he tried my carb powders and they didn't set well ,with him either. I'm going to be more diligent this summer about trying different hydration and nutrition strategies, lots of long runs in the heat. Great. | | Comments(7) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.15 |
| 81F, 82%, S 7 mph. Pretty good running for 200 yards, then it got hot. I checked the upcoming weather and it appears that today was an anomaly, should be 75 or below for the foreseeable future. I ran 5.15 miles at 10:13 per mile, that was my maximum LHR speed, the extra heat slowed me down compared to yesterday I think. Wasn't particularly uncomfortable at today's speed and distance, but it was hot, no getting around it. Legs felt OK during the run but today they feel like I ran a full workout, not just 5 warmup miles. I better be careful. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.61 |
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81F, 86%, S 10 mph. Pretty nice morning out there, the breeze felt good. Went to the Y and ran with the regular group, but they were dying on the vine in the heat. We were supposed to go 8 but ended up turning around early and walking parts of it. 7.61 at 9:19 per mile not counting the walking. I thought I was the guy who was in recovery mode. At least I didn't go too hard! Wade wasn't there, so didn't really have anybody to do a regular run with. Started to complain about my marathon a little bit then shut up when I realized I was making a spectacle of myself. Of the ones who had run a marathon, I doubt that many were under 4:30. Wade and I got invited to run with a faster group, so we'll probably do that and see how it goes. Time to ramp it up a little bit starting Monday, but not too much; I ramped up too fast after the last marathon and might have set myself back. Temperature is supposed to return to normal next week, I hope that materializes. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.90 |
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