| 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 | | 38.40 | 2.00 | 10.20 | 0.00 | 50.60 |
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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 |
| 78F, 97% (DP 77F), dead calm. Ran 10.0 in 1:23:06, 8:18/mile, 165 bpm average, 180 max. There needs to be a category between "easy" and "marathon pace", because this run was not close to marathon pace and it nearly killed me. We should have cooler weather sometime in the next three months, though.
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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, 94% (DP 75F), calm. Did another 10, today: Very gradual 4-mile wu, from 11:26 pace down to 8:26, then 5 x 1K: 7:42 (163), 7:14 (170), 7:13 (172), 7:34 (175), 7:42 (179), max 180 bpm. 1.38 miles cd. Overall 10.0 miles in 1:25:44, 8:34/mile. Pretty blah effort. Resting heart rate was down to 55 though, so I am coming back a little bit from jet lag and GI problems. I have a 5K this weekend which I have been targeting, but at this point it looks like it won't be a fast one.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 76F, 94% (DP 74F), still no wind, but ever-so-slightly cooler. Woke up very early, insomnia-style, worked a couple of hours then went out for another workout. Sitting on the curb, resting HR was 52, so back in range finally. Did 3 wu, 9:09 down to 8:19, then 2 x 2 miles, goal pace 7:30. Results were 7:28 (160), 7:32 (166), 1 mile active recovery (8:06), then 7:24 (169) and 7:22 (176). Finished the run at marathon pace, 7:53, 7:57. Max heart rate 180. Overall 7:59 pace, good run, left me with some hope for a decent low-7 pace on Saturday.
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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 |
| 78F, 91%, (DP 75F), calm. 5.0 at 11:26/mile, LLHR. Not a good result, but it is hot. Suspicious, I got on the scales a little later in the morning and discovered I had put on about 6 pounds. Pretty discouraging, as I have been trying to watch my weight all summer. Sitting on planes and eating in restaurants for two weeks is deadly.
PM: 5 miles downhill on the TM.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Thunderstorms this morning, so I went to the gym for a quick 5. Started out at 10:00 pace and ended up at 6:40, averaged 7:40 overall. So much easier on the TM to get speed.
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UNCF Race/Walk (3.1 Miles) 00:22:12, Place overall: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| 75F, 94%, (DP 73F), NE 5 mph. This is my annual UNCF 5K, always hoping for a win, since nobody fast ever shows up. But every year at least one person shows up who is faster than me. Got up and packed, remembered everything but my Garmin. Even had my HRM strapped on. But it was no big deal -- the weather was hot and I knew I wouldn't get a good time. But on the other hand I figured it might be to my advantage, since I don't think most people train in the heat like I do, even in Houston.
I got to the race early, just at sunrise, picked up my bib and puttered around. I didn't have anybody running it with me this year. I decided to go out and run the course, but realized I better cut it short since I wasn't sure of the time. So I turned back toward the start line, getting there just as they were starting. If I had run a full 3 warmup I would have missed the race.
Me and a ragged assortment of guys took off at the front. I wasn't in the lead, but the leaders didn't know the course. So I was yelling out directions from 20 yards back. After about a mile I started closing the gap. I was in second place at the 2-mile mark when the leader made a wrong turn. He was a kid, looked like about 15. I yelled at him and the constables finally got him turned back. He probably lost only 4 or 5 seconds but it took the starch out of his legs because I never heard from him again. So I ran the last mile all alone, then at the last turn into the finishing chute the first guy I passed caught me and I couldn't answer, no kick in these ancient legs. So second place again. I wonder if he knows he cheated an old man out of his only chance for victory.
Not having a watch probably hurt me, because I have run this fast alone in my neighborhood; should have been faster than that today, but maybe doing speed work yesterday wasn't such a good idea.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 38.40 | 2.00 | 10.20 | 0.00 | 50.60 |
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