| 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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| 79F, 91% (DP 76F), no wind. LLHR, 1:49:50, 10:59/mile, 121 bpm, not a good run but that's the way it is on Mondays, not sure why. I used to blame it on Saturday, but Saturday was an easy day this time around. Just a Monday thing. Wade is back in town for a week and a half, very good to have someone to talk to.
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| 79F, 89% (DP 75F) and calm. Supposed to continue to get hotter throughout the remainder of the month. Out very early, had to be done in time for a 6 o'clock call. LLHR again, 10 in 1:48:46, 10:53/mile, 121 bpm. Pretty average run, a little better than yesterday, which is typical for Tuesday. Finished with stretching and weights.
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| 80F, 90% (DP 77F), calm. More LLHR stuff, 10.0 in 1:46:09, 10:37/mile, 121 bpm. Legs were stiff and tight from weights, was quite surprised when the splits started coming in at the mid-10 range. At 6 miles I had a 10:32 average, but the heat finally started getting to me after that. Not too bad of a run today.
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| 78F, 92% (DP 75F) and calm. 10 more LLHR. I did a weight session last night which my son coached me through, could barely walk out of the gym. So I figured a bad run this morning. But even with pretty numb legs it went well. 1:45:11, 10:31/mile, 121 bpm. Pace was 6 seconds better than yesterday, even though at the 7-mile mark I was 14 seconds behind yesterday's cumulative clock, so I gained 75 seconds against yesteray's clock in the last 3 miles. A week like this makes me think my plan is actually working, but one data point doesn't make a trend.
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| 79F, 90% (DP 75F), SSW 2 mph. Another beautiful morning. 10 again, LLHR, but this time 10:54/mile (1:48:57), and 122 bpm, so not as good a run. Not much sleep, which might be an explanation. Finished with stretching and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 77F, 94% (DP 75F), calm. 15.0 in 2:10:12, 8:37/mile. First 8 at 8:47/mile, last split was 7:58. Average heart rate 148, max 172. Planned on 20 but slept all the way to my alarm and I have grandkids here, so I quit early. But felt great, good run, might have time for some TM miles later on during his nap.
Here he is, preparing for his nap:
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