| 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 | | 25.65 | 0.00 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 33.94 |
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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 |
| 75F, 94% (73 DP) and calm. Ran 10 miles in 1:28:56, 8:54/mile, warmup 4 miles then 1 x 2 mile at 7:09, 7:17 then jog out the rest. Average heart rate 153, max 184. Didn't run yesteray due to work pressures.
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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 |
| 79F, 89% (74 DP), S 5 mph. 10.0 in 1:26:53, 8:41/mile, 152 heart rate, 169 max. Was going to repeat yesterday's run, but hadn't recovere enough, and didn't have enough time to run LLHR. Not sure how much good it does to run at this speed but it is miles.
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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 |
| 79F, 86%, 74 DP, calm. At the end it was 78F and 96%, DP calculator shows 78F for that combination, so close to max conditions at the end, which was consistent with how this run felt. Did LLHR for 3 warmup miles, 11;56, 11:45, 11:43, then 5 x 1K: 8:00, 7:17, 7:10, 7:11, and 7:07. 144 average HR, 184 max. Out of curiosity I pulled off the cooldown heart rates after each kilometer split, they climbed quite a bit: 142, 152, 160, 163 and 164, and if anything the latter ones were slower. Radiator builds up quite a head of steam at these temps.
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UNCF Walk (3.19 Miles) 00:22:31, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.75 | 0.00 | 3.19 | 0.00 | 3.94 |
| 74F, 92% (DP 71), NNE 13 mph. A system moved through last night and cooled things off somewhat for this race. A girl/boy combination with same last name (either siblings or a married couple) took first and second, I got third in 22:38, splits were 6:59, 7:09, 7:09 and 7:11, HR maxed out at 182. The girl beat me by nearly two minutes, but she ran close to my PR from 3 years ago. The guy beat me by about 25 seconds. Thinking the heat was to blame, I checked out my old race reports and those PR-type races were not necessarily cooler. One was run at 80F, the other at 66F with a bad groin. So I'm definitely slower now. Nothing you can do.
Trying to decide whether to put in a lot of speed work for a big 10-miler in October or go back to LLHR training for a long-haul training cycle. Problem with LLHR training is making the time, it takes almost 2 hours to do a run and that is hard to get in every day.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 25.65 | 0.00 | 8.29 | 0.00 | 33.94 |
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