| 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 | | 31.00 | 0.00 | 5.20 | 0.00 | 36.20 |
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| 75F, 95% (DP 74) and calm. No end in sight to the hot weather, even though things are cooling down in the rest of the country. At least we aren't hitting 80s. I am going to try a 5K on Saturday, so putting in a little bit of speedier work this week. Warmed up for 4 miles then 2 miles as hard as I could, 7:33 and 7:10, then slogged out 4 more in the 9:15 to 9:30 range. If I recover properly I'll do this a couple of more times this week.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 79F, 97% (DP 78) and calm. 81F to finish. Same run as yesterday, but hotter by quite a bit. Got a late start and ran the fast ones in the sun. The two fast miles were 7:19 and 7:13, so started out faster and ended up slower than yesterday. Probably a combination of fatigue and heat. Overall 8:56/mile, feeling the heat pretty badly at the end. Heart rate 153 bpm, 184 max. Last 4 were in the 9:02 to 9:22 range.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 1.20 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Indoors. Had to travel suddenly to Guatemala this week and have missed running for the last two days due to work schedules. But finished yesterday and made it downstairs to the treadmill this morning. The weather here is gorgeous, was confused until somebody told me we are at 5,000 feet altitude. The group we are working with here has a couple of runners in it, there are lots of runners in Latin America. But they were both injured, so I didn't get to run with company, just the TM. Legs were pretty rested, obviously, and I ran short, only 10K. I ran 2 x 1K at 7:00/mile pace. The rest of the run was at an 8:50 pace. Was happy that it wasn't too difficult, but hard to really get a bead on it. I am at altitude (minus), not racing (minus), on the treadmill (plus), indoors at 74F (minus) but with lower humidity (plus), and you have to wonder if the TM is calibrated accurately. Too many variables to extrapolate to a morning run in my neighborhood at home. Left a puddle of sweat for whatever that is worth.
I'm planning to run a 5K tomorrow morning back in Houston, would be very happy to be able to hold a similar pace in that race though it will be a stretch. If I could hit 6:45 (not likely) I would PR. Might have already ran my race this morning, though. Dang.
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| 75F, 97% (DP 74F) and calm. Boiloff from rains yesterday, pretty humid. Thought I was running a race this morning but it is next week. But didn't do a long run, too much going on today with the BYU game in Austin and my daughter's birthday. Ran 9 miles at 8:41 pace, 153 bpm average heart rate, 165 max, so not too easy or too hard, then 1 more with the dog at slightly slower pace. That's it for the week, not much but not nothin'.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 31.00 | 0.00 | 5.20 | 0.00 | 36.20 |
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