| 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 | | 55.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 65.00 |
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| 80F, 91% (DP 78F) and calm, wind freshening during the run, thankfully, from the south. Decided to take an extra day yesterday, needed to work in any event. So this morning was 15.0 miles in 2:07:12, 8:29/mile, 154 bpm (171 max). Decidedly better than Saturday, worked no harder and went 30 seconds/mile faster. Actually, I worked a little harder this morning, as overall heart rate was 152 bpm on Saturday, with a 161 max, but legs felt much better from the beginning. So the lesson learned is that a heavy weight session, which happened on Friday, does what it is supposed to do, makes the core tired and slows pace. I almost quit at 10 so I would have time to do weights this morning, but I didn't want to waste a good running day.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 81F, 87% (DP 77F), SE 5-15 mph. Windy but slightly less humid. 10.0 in 1:23:11, 8:19/mile, 150 bpm, 162 max. Pace yesterday through the first 10 was 8:34, which I was happy with, but today was 15 seconds faster at the same heart rate through 10 and essentially the same temperature (one degree higher, but DP one degree cooler). Saturday's run appears to have been an outlier, which is great news.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 76F, 94% (DP 74F), calm and clear. Needed a quick workout this morning, so went out for 10 MP miles, 1:18:31, 7:52/mile and 154 bpm averages, right at Boston pace. Last two splits were the best, 7:20 and 7:19, and highest heart rate was 180. Good run, taking advantage of the cooler weather.
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| 75F, 95%, (DP 74F), calm. Low heart rate run today, reasonably strong @ 10:48/mile, 121 bpm. Felt good to slow down. Tomorrow is a long run, but not sure I want to go back to LLHR next week, have to think about that.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 77F, 91% (DP 74F), calm. Woke up at 1:30, no kiddding, finally got up at 3:20 and actually spent some time reading before I left; underway at 4:07 a.m. Finally got all 20, a milestone for this summer, which has been hotter than average. 8:37/mile, 154 bpm (175 max). Almost everything was between 8:25 and 8:40, but my heart rate climbed in nearly a continuous straight line, from 135 to 175, was working pretty hard the last couple of miles. Water at 9.3 and 14.7. Not sure I could do this run at 8:20/mile right now, though I will probably try.
Vacuuming at the church afterward, I had to sit down in a pew at one point to rest, hunched over and totally weak. I felt like I will probably feel all the time in 20 years. I also felt like I needed a sermon, but it was Saturday morning.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 55.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 65.00 |
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