| 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 | | 53.23 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.23 |
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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 |
| 10 miles on hotel TM. I was going to run outside, as my hotel is close to the Olympic Park in Beijing, but my Garmin isn't working, not sure why. So I stuck to the TM, actually starting to get used to it, which is sad. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Hotel TM again, 4 miles at 8:40 pace, then 6 miles at GMP, first 5 at 7:30, then sped up to 7:18 for 3/4 and 7:10 for the last quarter. The gym here is actually pretty warm and I had an impressive, sweaty mess on and around the TM by the time I finished. Took about a half hour to clean it up, including some sweat that flew onto the next machine over. Overall 7:57 per mile, that is my speed workout for the week. It is Wednesday morning here and I am heading back to Houston today, it will be good to get home. It certainly is hurricane season, though. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.12 |
| 78F, 67%, NNW 7 mph. Wasn't sure what to expect out there, but the weather is changing, even down here on the Gulf Coast. Despite the high temperature it was pretty comfortable out there. 67% humidity is very tolerable. No Garmin again, have tried a soft re-boot, a hard re-boot and a hard-hard re-boot, dead as a doornail, even though in the cradle it says fully charged. So I ran by feel again, did a loop twice, 5.56 miles per loop according to the computer, 11.12 miles total in 1:32:45 after netting out a 30-second water break, so 8:20 per mile. Felt comfortable, which I was pleased about considering sitting for 20 hours on a plane yesterday. I have to travel again next week, but going south this time so I won't be dealing with jet lag at least. Had to stop and take some phone calls, so that was it for today, hopefully I can get in a bigger run tomorrow. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.41 |
| 81F, 94%, SSW 9 mph to start, 84F, 86%, SSW 10 mph at end. Got 8 hours of sleep last night, finishing off the last of the jet lag, but as a result got out the door late, 7:13. My legs were heavy, it was as difficult to run today as it was easy yesterday. Plus I was pretty ticked about the weather. 95 heat index at 7:00 in the morning? Unacceptable. The sun was beating down in the last half and I was starting to get seriously dehydrated with the solar effect on my skin, so I left off the last detour and called it a day. According to the computer I ran 9.41 miles in 1:22:20, average pace 8:45, not too bad under the circumstances. It felt slower than that. Garmin is still broken. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.70 |
| 80F, 96%, S 4 mph. Met Wade at the Y at 5:15 and we ran 9.4 miles according to his Garmin, then he had to leave for a tee time. I ran the same route again but left off the last 0.1, so 18.7 total. With Wade we averaged 9:25. I think I ran about the same the second leg, a little faster out and a little slower back. Just too hot. I intended to finish off the 20, but was starting to bake pretty bad out in the sun -- don't know how hot it was to end, though. Not a stellar run, but the important thing was to get it done. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 53.23 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 59.23 |
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