| 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 | | 32.08 | 0.00 | 9.10 | 0.00 | 41.18 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.12 |
| 67F, 94% and raining. Actually there was a bit of lightning as well, but I broke my rule and tiptoed around the neighborhood, with my neck bent at wierd angles watching the western horizon. No close strikes so I kept going, justifying it on the basis that I was only running a little. 4.12 LHR miles at 10:03 per mile, definitely still feeling Saturday's run. In the evening, propped up the back of my treadmill all the way to 4% and did 4 LHR downhill miles. I haven't been doing much downhill except for backpacking and mountain climbing, which isn't nothing, but I need extra to get through SGM. Also climbed stairs at work, which was easier than climbing King's Peak. I should do this whenever I am coming back to the office, which is almost always at least twice a day, sometimes more. Our firm occupies 9 floors, so that is a pretty good workout. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.02 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.02 |
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69F, 94%, heavy fog. Love these new weather patterns. Ran 4.02 in 31:19, average pace 7:48 per mile. Warmed up 1 mile then did 3 tempo miles, 7:05, 6:51 and 6:54, which equates to a 21:30 5K pace. There was a stray dog wandering around, large enough to cause problems. He approached barking aggressively, but I tried to stay calm, stopped my watch and stood there until he came up. He licked my hand and left, never saw the owner. Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere for us lawyers. Never mind, not going there. Hoping to get more TM miles tonight.
PM: Got 4 downhill miles on TM | | Comments(18) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| No running this morning, work is suffocating me. Got home late and forced myself to run 4 downhill TM miles, 8:00 pace. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.13 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 4.13 |
| 67F, 99%, WNW 1 mph, essentially calm. Ran 1 mile warmup then 3 tempo: 7:21 (157), 7:09 (165) and 6:47 (171). These are hard, it will be a while before I can run significant distances at these paces. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.08 |
| 69F, 78%, NNW 3 mph. The lower humidity made it feel much cooler than yesterday, but my legs are not in good shape. Was too sore to do TM downhill miles last night. My foot still hurts from the Kings Peak ankle sprain (I hope that's all it is), probably going to have to cut back the last week and lose a little conditioning to make it good enough to run St. George in a week. Ran 8.08 miles at very low heart rate, average pace 10:11 per mile. Wade and I are going to run a 5K in the morning. I fully understand that that behavior is inconsistent with the rest of this blog entry. | | Comments(6) |
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Run the Woodlands 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:20:54, Place overall: 7 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.73 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 8.83 |
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70F to start, not sure of the humidity but it was 87% when I left the house. Wade and I drove out to the Woodlands to run this one dollar race they hold twice a month. They give the money away to various charities, since the sponsor running store absorbs all the overhead. Wade and I decided we need to start giving more than one dollar.
We ran the course once to warm up, then everybody lined up just as one last guy was driving in to the parking lot. The starter asked us if we wanted to wait and the vote was a very loud no. We waited anyway. My plan was to start out at 6:45 then see if I could go faster from there. I got pretty close to that but still missed my PR by 7 seconds. I figured no big deal, it was hotter today, but I looked it up and the last time I ran this race in May I got 20:52, 2 seconds faster than today -- and 10 degrees hotter back then, that was an 80F morning. What the heck?! I seem to have added zero speed this summer, really don't know what is wrong. Wade and I were talking about it and we decided that the 3-mile warmup might be a little much, even at slow speed it probably takes some of the stamina out of us, especially when it is still a little warm. But no matter how you slice it I am not getting faster right now. Still having plenty of fun though, passed several pretty good runners about halfway through the race and none of them caught back up.
Splits were 6:52 (165), 6:48 (180), 6:39 (184) and 6:13 (185), maxHR 192, gun time 20:55, Garmin time 20:54, probably had a little too much left in the tank at the end. I can tell because I didn't want to puke. I got 7th place, same as last time. Interestingly, the winning time was slower than last time, about 18 flat. Even more interesting, 4th place was taken by a 60-year old woman who broke 20 minutes. I saw her drive off in a Jeep Wrangler painted Desert Storm tan, maybe I should get one. I love it how runners never bother to fit in. Anyway, I can't blame my time on my age, which is a good feeling actually, there is still hope.
Once more around the course to cool down. | | Comments(16) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 32.08 | 0.00 | 9.10 | 0.00 | 41.18 |
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