| 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 | | 53.09 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 56.09 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.09 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 6.09 |
| 70F, 94% (DP 68F), calm. So I made a tentative decision to move into a phase that includes more speedwork. In the past doing this I got faster for a while, then got stale for at least a year, though hard to tell since some of that was injury-related. If things go well I will probably peak at the end of the year, but not at Boston. But I liked racing enough on Saturday that I think I am going to see how close I can get to my old PRs at shorter distances. Everybody who knows me will be happy, not sure if I am but it isn't too much fun just getting ready for a marathon once or twice a year.
So today was 6 miles, with a fast mile thrown in, 7:21 (160 bpm). Overall 6.09 in 54:07, 8:53/mile.
Here is the back of a car I saw at the race on Saturday. No wonder everybody hates us.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| 77F, 90%, NE 3 mph. 14 miles Iin 2:05:03, 8:56/mile, 151 bpm, 161 max. Out the door at 5:05 for a medium long run, hot again but managed to keep an honest pace, inside one minute over GMP. Wade got back into town last night and joined me for about 4 or 5, it was good to catch up. As usual we are a bad influence on each other and ran too fast but I made up for it later! | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 76F, 93%, calm. 6.0 miles in 52:23, 8:44/mile, 144 bpm, 176 average. Ran 2 miles fast, 7:19 (159) and 7:12 (171).
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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 |
| 76F, 97%, SE 3 mph, raining. 10.00 miles @ 8:55/mi, 147 bpm, 161 max. Ran 4 or 5 with Wade, then called it a day. Didn't feel like doing 14, still hot.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 74F, 89% and calm. Didn't run yesterday in Houston due to a lightning storm. Visiting my daughter and her family in Temple, TX. No streetlights so it was 7:10 before I started. I drove out to Lyons Park after filling up with gas, eating a breakfast burrito and a bottle of orange juice, just killing time until it got light enough to see. Good cloud cover but it burned off by the end of the run. Was only going to do 14, but had enough in me to go the entire 20, but the reason was it was very slow, 9:37/mile, 146 bpm, 165 max. Pretty hot by the end of the run. Lots of hills, some of them very steep, so it was a good workout. After 10 before I finished though.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 53.09 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 56.09 |
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