| 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 | | 43.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 43.00 |
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| Climbed Boundary Peak, the highest point in Nevada, with Wade today. 13,104' above sea level. Loose scree all the way up, no real trail, then it turned to snow, difficult climb.
Here it is from a distance:
And here I am on top:
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Attempted Mt. Whitney today, but didn't make it to the top. Wade did. Hit snow at 10,000 feet, which turned into about 2' - 3' on the trail at 12,000 feet. Didn't bring crampons, which would have made the trail more navigable. We started at 3:00 a.m., hit 11,500 at sunrise and continued on up. I made it to the John Muir trail junction, about 13,900 feet. The trail then dips down behind the mountain before circling around and coming up the northwest side for the final ascent. I realized if I tried it I would be coming back in the dark, and our flight home out of Vegas was early the next morning, so I gave up. I was very fatigued and it could have gotten dicey in any event. Have to be conservative when operating at those kinds of altitudes. Wade made it, however, so he bagged his 37th peak. Coming down I was dragging, even after I cleared the snow. Several people asked me if I was OK. Felt really old, so I'm counting these as miles.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 57F. 6.0 at LLHR, 10:43/mile. Feeling really beat up still. I fell on Boundary and hit my head, kind of like whiplash, having a hard time sleeping and legs are very dead. Wade hasn't started running again yet.
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| 64F, joined Wade for 10 this morning. Felt slightly better, but it was still a struggle to stay below 9:00 pace. 10 miles at 8:56/mile. Heart rate OK, 138 average, 151 max, but legs still dead.
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