| 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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| 78F, 90% (DP 75F), calm. Did not run yesterday due to work conflicts. Slept only 4 hours last night, but got up anyway and went out for 10, at long-run pace, nothing special. 8:56/mile for the run, but heart rate was staying remarkably low. 138 bpm overall for the run. I sped up to 8:11 and 8:31 to get my average below 9 for the run, but even then it didn't go over 150 or so. Still tired from lack of sleep, though.
Wade is back in town briefly, we were going to run yesterday, then I couldn't make it. Turns out he didn't either because his mother passed -- she had been ailing for a while. So we talked a lot. My mother passed three years ago under similar conditions, on the day of the Boston marathon. I had already cancelled the trip for other reasons, but was glad I was not running that day. Circle of life things -- we blessed my newest grandson in church on Sunday and got a 4-generation picture: grandson, daughter, me and my dad.
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| 80F, 90% (DP 77F), calm. Running LLHR this morning, figured it would be a mess and I would bail to a regular speed later in the run, but heart rate held fine, so I finished the whole run at 121 bpm average. 1:45:10 for 10 miles, 10:31/mile average, fastest LLHR run in quite a while despite the ridiculous temperatures. Met up with Wade again -- he is probably going to run Susanville with me on October 10, then we climb Boundary Peak and Mt. Whitney. Should be a stellar weekend.
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| 77F, 100% (DP 77F), NE 1 mph. Trying to rain but never got going. Not quite as fast today, but still got in a good 10 at LLHR. 1:46:04 for the run, 10:37/mile. Missed Wade this morning; he slept in and is headed to Utah for his mother's funeral, won't be back until after I have already left for Dubai, so we won't be running together for 3 more weeks at least.
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| 77F, 96% (DP 75F), easterly breeze at 4:35 a.m. The dew point actually increased by 5 degrees during the run, to 80F. I have never seen that before. Even now in the middle of the afternoon it is still 77DP. 20.0 miles in 2:51:24, 8:34/mile. I was holding right at 8:30 for the first 10, planning to drop the pace by at least some, then mile 10 came in around 8:46 and everything went to pot. This must have happened right as the dew point was changing, because I just wasn't getting the same result out of the same effort. Didn't want to dig too hard for fear of not finishing. On top of all that, the heart rate monitor started fading the last 5 miles or so, it was showing in the 120 bpm range, which is simply not accurate at the end of a long effort in the humidity.
On to hotel TMs for the next two weeks. This is going to be a challenge to continue making progress. There may be a way to suck it up and run outside though -- maybe by the time I come back Houston will seem cool. Current forecast for Dubai: 108H, 95L; quite a bit cooler than earlier in the summer when I last ran there, and not so much humidity.
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