| 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. |
|
Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
|
| Miles: | This week: | 0.00 |
Month: | 0.00 |
Year: | 0.00 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 71.62 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 71.62 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 79F, 97%, DP 78F, SE 1 mph and clear. Hotter than ever. Don't see it getting cooler soon. Usually there is a whiff a coolness in the morning, but it was muggy today even before starting. Out at 5:00 a.m. for 10, LLHR, 12:43 average, 120 bpm average. A bit faster than last Monday's run, with muggier conditions today, so I am continuing to progress a little bit.
| | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 77F, 100%, 77DP and calm. 10.00 miles in 2:02:30, 12:15/mile, 121 bpm.
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.22 |
| 79F, 100% (79 DP, highest yet) and calm. Ran 11.22 miles in 2:16:50, first 10 averaged 12:09/mile, but mile 12, if I had finished it, would have been close to 13, steady through 9, then big fade at the end. 121 bpm average. Air was tot, humid and stale. Changed clothes and went to the gym to lift.
| | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 75F, 96% (74 DP), calm and crisp. 12.00 miles in 2:25:27. First 10 in 2:00:10, 12:01/mile, 122 bpm average for the entire run. Everything through mile 8 was under 12, then the pace dropped fast and mile 12 was 12:49. This run is a slight improvement over yesterday, mostly attributable to the nicer running conditions, but happy to get it anyway. My legs feel wasted from lifting weights yesterday and I assumed I would be slower today. I am thinking that if I keep pushing the distance on the low heart rate stuff that I will improve faster at the bottom end of the training zone, rather than just waiting for it to come to me by running the same distance every day. Won't be able to run these distances consistently, though, it takes too much time.
Out of curiosity I checked my LLHR entries from a year ago. Interesting that during July my low heart rate runs were mostly faster than I am running right now, preceding a meltdown at the Paavo Nurmi Marathon in Wisconsin. But right now I am running faster than I did in September, 2013, preceding SGM where I ran within 4 minutes of my PR and had energy to spare. Also my long run heart rate/speed combinations are comparing favorably with last year at this time; hopefully that holds this Saturday.
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.20 |
| 75F, 96% and calm to start, 77F, 95% (75 DP) and W 3 mph at end. Ran from 5:00 to 7:30 then did weights. Low heart rate run, averaged 11:56/mile through 10, as good as anything else recently. 121 bpm average heart rate. Was going to run 13 but my pace went to pot and I decided there was no more benefit. Last 5 splits show the quick deterioration: 11:56, 12:11, 12:16, 12:55 and 12:53. Finished with a vigorous weight session and I am tired.
| | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.20 |
| 80F, 91% (79 DP), SSW 8 mph. Truly miserable, intended to do 20 at 9:00 pace, but did 16.20 at 9:13/mile, 155 bpm average, 169 max. I got up very early because I have an 8:00 commitment. So I needed to get out the door at 4:00, actually got out at 3:50, the last thing that went right. Temperature was overwhelmingly warm, and my legs were still tired from lifting yesterday. I huffed and puffed through a 9:35 first mile and I knew I was cooked. I only broke 9 once and it was a fight the whole way, though I didn't fight that hard -- too dangerous to fight hard for 2+ hours in these conditions. I kept fluids down well and heart rate was relatively controlled, which were a couple of good things. This is one of those runs that you do it and forget about it, deposit made, no big deal.
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 71.62 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 71.62 |
|
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|