| 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 | | 94.40 | 0.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 105.40 |
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| 64F, 90% (DP 61F), breeze from SSE. Warming back up after a dew point of 53F yesterday morning. Still plenty cool, though. Ran 2 wu, then 3 miles at GHMP: 7:23, 7:05, 6:53, then met Wade and finished the run at 8:20 to 8:40 pace. I thought I was running faster than the race on Saturday, but when I plugged in the actual distance of the coursse on Saturday (3.19 miles), my average came out to 6:58/mile, so today was a little slower. Felt better though.
PM: 5 on TM, downhill, 6 mph up to 8.5 mph.
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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, 91% (DP 71F), minimal wind from the East. Out for a longish run today, 13 LLHR miles, 10:36/mile, 121 bpm. 5 with Wade. Then back at the house I climbed on the TM for another 7 downhill, last 4 at 8 mph. There isn't really much aerobic effect inside with low humidity, treadmill and downhill, it is just a matter of tuning up my legs for the half marathon in October, which is almost entirely downhill.. So kind of an odd 20-miler today, but I'm still counting it because my legs are telling me I did something.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 75F, 95% (DP 73F), breeze from NE. Woke up very early and worked a while, then went out and ran 10, in very familiar summer conditions. Originally planned to do 5 hard ones, but I knew when I woke up that it wasn't happening today. Pretty wiped out from yesterday's weird long run. Warmed up 2, then 3 miles hard: 7:30 (154), 7:26 (163), 7:19 (170), max HR 174. 1 mile cd, then met Wade for 4 more. Overall 10.0 in 1:23:57, 8:24/mile. Longest stride length today was 1.07 meters, whereas Monday it was 1.14. Cadence today on the fastest mile was 209, compared to 204 on Monday. So short, choppy stride today -- the metrics confirmed how I felt and clearly demonstrated the hazards of running on sore legs.
PM: 5 more downhill on TM, about 8:20 pace.
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| 73F, 97% (DP 72F), breeze from SSE. Slept in from a late work night, didn't get out until 5:30. Did 10.0 at LLHR, 10:39/mile, 121 bpm. At the house afterward I did 5 more downhill TM miles at 7:53 pace. I haven't been putting a HRM on these TM runs, the main purpose is to pound out the legs and get used to the faster turnover when the slope points down.
PM: 5 more downhill on TM, 7:06 pace overall, last half mile at 10.2 mph.
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| 72F, 97% (DP 71F), calm. Had to get to work, so stopped at 8, 8:26 average pace.
PM: 7 more on TM, 7:30 pace, downhill.
Long run in the morning to finish out a high miles week, then traveling again for a few days.
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| 70F, 96%, (DP 69F), no breeze. Out early, starting the run at 4:24 a.m. Met Wade at his house after 7.3 miles. Left my water bottle there and headed out for 11 more, but stopped at the church and got a drink there. Then two more back to my house, where we took a well-earned dip in the pool. Then drove to McDonalds for a large breakfast. Started out under an 8:30 pace and held it through 11 or 12 miles, but ended up the 20 in 2:50:38, an 8:32 pace. Last miles were dragging, but got mile 20 at 8:32. Average heart rate was 146, hovered around 150 after about mile 11, some over some under until the last mile at 156, so overall my heart rate was very much in check. Very tired legs from the big week. Nevertheless, our pace equated to a 3:43 marathon, so not bad for a late summer, somewhat muggy run.
No complaints about the temperatures though. 69 DP is a significant improvement over only two weeks ago.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 94.40 | 0.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 105.40 |
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