| 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 | | 74.40 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 77.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 75F, 90% (DP 72F), calm. Still pretty reasonable weather, though not as cool as Saturday. The combination of a brisk long run followed by weights on Saturday kept me pretty stiff and sore through the weekend, and I was slower this morning, though my heart rate held up well throughout. 12.5 in 2:19:25, 11:09/mile, 120 bpm. All of the low heart rate running this summer is playing with my mind and I started thinking about ultras. Really have to suppress those kinds of thoughts. Honestly, if I had a choice between a 5-minute mile and a 20-hour 100-miler, I would take the former in a heartbeat. The problem is that the latter is more achievable.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 76F, 92% (DP 74F), calm. Warming back up. Out very early for another 12.5 at LLHR, 2:19:08, 11:08/mile. Nothing much going on in this run, a bit irritated that I am slower this week.
Saw an interesting McMillan article about tapering, which says some things I have always believed. The gist of his view is: two-week taper, not three; don't back off much in terms of time (10 - 20 minutes/dat first week, 20-30 minutes second week); don't back off at all in terms of frequency or intensity, maybe even up the intensity a little bit without actually going to race speed). He calls it peaking instead of tapering. My own view is that tapering probably works best in the three weeks after the race; my body at least needs the rest, but rest slows it down temporarily -- don't want to do that going into a race.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 80F, 91% (DP 77F), SW 2 mph. 12.5 miles at LLHR, 11:05/mile. Heart rate monitor went nuts, showing 200+ bpm at times. It eventually settled down toward the end. I think the battery is going out, hope that is all it is. I don't know how to change the battery in this new watch I have.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.40 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 79F, 90% (DP 76F), calm. Going nuts with the low heart rate stuff, so I ran some repeats this morning. 2 wu, then 5 x 1K: 7:28, 7:17, 7:22, 7:06, 7:23, maximum HR 183. Jogged out the mile on each one. Not a particularly good workout. I hope all the slower times this week are attributable to temperatures, but not sure that is the case.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 79F, 90% (DP 76F), calm. Identical to yesterday. Back to LLHR this morning, 12.5 miles at 11:11/mile. HRM is still acting up, hard to get a good reading, but have been getting slower all week. Usually I get faster as the week goes on.
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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 |
| 79F, 89% (DP 76F), calm. Out by 4:15 running my daily constitutional. 20.0 miles at 8:59 pace. Not a good run. Took water at 10.75 and 15.75, it wasn't enough, got dehydrated. Have drunk about a half gallon of water since finishing and I am gradually getting back to normal, but chilled, etc. So the week is done. Not a good week but it is on the books.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 74.40 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 77.50 |
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