| 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 | | 72.14 | 4.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 77F, 91% SW 4 mph. Weather was a little better this morning. I ran 12.00 miles in 1:51:28, average pace 9:17, 144 bpm, 157 max. I guess what I like most about running right now is no pain at the start. The pain comes in at about mile 7, but it seems to be later every time, and it is not affecting my running in any discernable amount. The heart rate got away from me a little bit at the end, but it was further than last week so I'm not concerned. Mainly I was glad to have a good run after struggling so much on Saturday. The day off was certainly helpful. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.14 | 4.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 77F, 99%, SSW 6 mph. I think these are going to be "normal" conditions for the duration. Today was advertised as a fast day. I was skeptical about what I could do because I did leg weights last night, but at least my offering to the running gods was at max effort. Started out with 2 warmup miles, 9:52 and 9.08, then the plan was to do 3 at GMP (7:30), then 3 x 1000 at 7:15 and then 3 more at GMP. Here is what actually happened: 7:53 (152), 7:46 (158) and 7:33 (167), last one wasn't too bad. Then launched right into the 1K repeats without a cooldown: 7:12 (177), 7:24 (178) and 7:36 (174), so the last one was actually slower than my best MP mile. At this point I was nauseous and I was toast. I ran the last 4 at 8:30 (166), 8:57 (164), 8:24 (168) and 8:59 (166), trying to alternate between fast and slow but no real difference, just a bad-form slog. Total 12.00 at 8:28 per mile. By the end I had disintegrated into a liquid state, but I was happy with the effort. I have been telling myself I need to run to failure more often and today I failed spectacularly. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 77F, 94%, SSW 6 mph. Breeze was a little fresher ths morning but everything else about the same. Ran 12.00 miles in 1:51:27, 9:17 per mile, 144 bpm, 151 max. I let my heart rate go up early, "banked" a lot of time against the 9:20 target, just to see what would happen. Surprisingly, I maintained better than 9:20/150 all the way through 10 miles (mile 10 was 9:17/149). 11 and 12 were 9:30 and 9:39, but kept the heart rate down. Pretty happy with this run after going hard yesterday. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 77F, 96%, SSW 3 mph. 12.00 miles in 1:50:29, 9:13 per mile, 144 bpm, 153 max. I started out a little fast, but my heart rate leveled out and held below the 9:20/150 barrier through 10 again today. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 75F, 100% and calm. A small break on the temperature. I did weights last night but it didn't seem to affect my running today. 12.00 miles in 1:51:38, 9:18 per mile, 141 bpm, 151 max. I didn't start out quite as fast today, and my heart rate held below the 9:20/150 threshold almost through 12 today, 12th mile was 9:21/149. Friday a week ago, mile 10 was 9:26/149 -- mile 10 today was 9:11/146, so a significant difference even though it was slightly warmer today. Pretty happy with how things are progressing at the moment. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| 76F, 97% and calm. Out at 4:45 a.m., but didn't feel that great. Went to bed tired and woke up the same way. Didn't help that my Garmin went dead before the first mile was done. I continued to the Y (6.8 Google miles) and met Wade there for another 4.2, then we did 6 with the group. I had planned to run home from the Y for a full 20 but I didn't think my legs could make the trip. So I hitched a ride home with Wade -- even with towels I left a sweaty mess in his car. For the miles we ran together, Wade and I averaged 9:31 per mile for 10.2 miles, and I don't think I was faster than that for the part I did on my own. Next Thursday and Friday I get to run in Idaho at 6000' elevation, but won't be messing with heat and humidity. One of the runners in our group was just out there, and he said he ran 10 miles at 8500' altitude 5 minutes faster than any of three 10-milers he timed here in Houston. That is significant and confirms what I have always believed. Heat/humidity is worst, altitude is bad for us flatlanders, but best is a flat, sea-level, cold marathon, only since it is pretty hard to have a cold, downhill sea-level marathon, though now that I think of it I'm going to start looking for one. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 72.14 | 4.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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