| 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 | | 52.24 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 55.34 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 75F, 98% (75 DP), N 1 mph. LLHR run again, 11:48/mile and 120 bpm, not too bad for a Monday. Weather is starting to ease up just a bit this week, hope it holds.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.90 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 77F, 84% (72 DP) and calm. Warmed up at LLHR for 3.5 miles, about 11:25/mile at 119 bpm, feeling good. Busted out a 5 x 1K workout at 7:33, 7:18, 7:09, 7:19 and 7:03 paces jogging out each mile. Then ran the dog for a mile to cool down and finish off the 10. I have a 5K race in about 10 days, so figured I should at least see what I can do. My 5K PR is a 6:41 average pace, if I remember correctly, so a long way from where I am right now.
Not sure how I will feel the rest of the day, but this seemed to go pretty well. Who knows what would happen if I actually did workouts regularly. But even running fast it's all about the aerobic base, I don't regret any of the slow miles, except while I am running them.
PM weights and stretching.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 75F, 87% (71 DP), N 1 mph. Considerably cooler this morning, and even though I did a workout yesterday and weights late last night I still ran quicker this morning, 11:25 pace for 9 miles, then finished 1 mile untimed with the dog. An interesting thing is that mile 6 was my quickest mile, 11:11, and by the 9th mile the pacing still hadn't deteriorated, it came in at 11:24, so mile 10 would have still been OK.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.15 |
| 76F, 87% (73 DP) and calm. Late night last night, got a late start, almost daylight by the time I got out and it was beating down by the third mile. 9.1 miles at LLHR, 11:17/mile, 121 bpm. It looks better than yesterday, but my heart rate was higher today in the sunlight so really about the same, maybe a little slower actually. Finished with stretching and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.19 |
| 75F, 96% (74 DP), calm. Didn't run yesterday due to work issues then couldn't hit 20 today, everything was hurting. 15.19 at 8:56/mile. Just waiting for summer to end at this point.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 52.24 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 55.34 |
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