| 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 | | 34.98 | 0.00 | 5.35 | 0.00 | 40.33 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.75 | 0.00 | 2.25 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 79F, 92% (DP 76F), S 4 mph. 1.5 WU then 9 x 400 at 7:00 to 7:15 pace (estimated, I didn't press the lap button, wanted to run more by feel), 200 jogging in between and 400 jog at end, 6.00 miles total. 51:57 total tim, 8:40/mile. 152 bpm average, 182 max. Felt good to air it out a little bit, and felt good to finish in under an hour. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.14 |
| 77F, 94%, S 5 mph. 6.14 miles in 56:24, 9:11/mile, 142 bpm average, 152 max. Nothing special, just trying to walk the line between staying sharp and fading. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Legs were slightly more tired than I thought they should be this late in the taper, so took the day off. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.11 |
| 79F, 94%, SSW 3 mph. Ran this right at 10-minute pace. Wanted to get some miles in without racking up any deficits. First 6 felt very good, legs were strong. Then they got sore. It has been almost 2 weeks since I ran 20, almost tempted to do it on Saturday but hopefully I won't. Overall 12.11 miles in 2:01:01, 10:00/mile. 141 average heart rate, 152 max. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.92 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 6.02 |
|
74F, 100% and calm. Woke up stiff and slow, legs dead from running 12 easy yesterday. But I was out the door on autopilot, sat down to get a RHR and it came to 55. I can tell this taper is doing a lot of good? The reason I don't trust my training is because it has never given me a reason to trust it.
Started out and legs felt heavy, though not sore. I pushed it just a little and came in on the warmup mile at 9:26. Then went 5 x 1K pretty hard, trying for 7:45 but ultimately faster than that: 7:56 (152), 7:42 (159), 7:07 (169), 7:06 (175) and 7:08 (180). The third one kicked in nicely, was working hard but felt mostly under control. Overall 6.02 miles in 48:56, 8:07/mile, 156 bpm, 185 max. Even though I could never hold it that far, it felt good to see my legs churning at my old half marathon pace for the last 3 repeats. Hopefully 8:15 will be sustainable in a week. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.06 |
| 75F, 100%, calm and bright sunlight most of the run. Kept the lid on today. My daughter is in town with her family for my wife's birthday, so she agreed to join me at 7:00. Left the house at 6:05 and ran 5 at low-low HR, 11:35 per mile, 122 bpm. Then I met my daughter, told her I didn't want to run anything under 8:45, so that is what we did. 9:04 (137), 8:49 (144), 8:56 (147), 8:53 (149). Then my daughter peeled off and I ran one more, 8:35 (156). It was oppressively hot with the high humidity and the sun beating down, was very happy to see my heart rate under 150 at this particular speed. It compares favorably with the splits in this training zone that I was seeing at the start of last year and the end of 2011 when I was hitting my PRs. I could see myself running 8:15s at a similar heart rate if the temperature were in the 50s, but we will soon know. We will have some rollers and a little bit of altitude to deal with (only 1,500 feet but it makes a difference to a sea-level guy). | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 34.98 | 0.00 | 5.35 | 0.00 | 40.33 |
|
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|