| 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 | | 47.50 | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 63.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.33 |
| 77F, 87% (73 DP), S 8 mph. Woke up this morning thinking the temps would be in the low 50s and got a nasty surprise. But wasn't really that bad, have been doing it all summer. Wade ran a few with me, truly misery loves company. Was going to go 14 but legs were wooden from racing on Saturday so decided to call it a day. 11.33 in 1:36:48, 8:33/mile, 156 bpm, 170 max. Got in just before the storm cells moved in.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.17 | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.17 |
| 53F, 83%, calm and clear. Good weather finally here. Didn't run yesterday because of work deadlines in the morning. I have about decided to switch to the marathon at Richmond on November 15, one month from today, so time to start doing some marathon-paced runs. Ran a "metric marathon" this morning after a very short warmup. 16.0 miles in 2:07:34, 7:58/mile, average heart rate 161, max 173. Last two were 7:44 and 7:49. Held the heart rate in the 160-165 range through 12 then it spiralled away from me and I had a hard time making my splits after that. Need to get that number up to 15, 12 isn't quite close enough. But I'll try to get this run in twice more and I think my leg strength will improve -- nothing wrong aerobically at the moment.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 60F, 83%, WSW 3 mph and clear. Legs were stale this morning after yesterday. Was going to do a LLHR run, haven't done one in a while, but my Garmin went dark so I reverted to a known 6-mile route and did it twice at long-run effort. The second time through I timed it at 52 minutes on my phone, which works out to 8:40/mile. First half might have been a little slower. I was able to turn on my Garmin for a few seconds at a time to pull off heart rates. At the end of the first half I had 141 and 152 at the end.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 24.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 24.00 |
| 63F, 100%, clear and calm. Didn't run yesterday because of an early work meeting. If I don't do it in the morning, I don't do it. But didn't mind the day off because my old back injury seems to have returned. I am smarter about it, though, immediately went into an intense stretching regime and took ibuprofen -- a lot of the pain comes from swelling, not from actual injury. Took 400 mg last night and 200 mg this morning at 4:30. Out the door at 5:00, prepared to turn back if my back was off. But there wasn't even a twinge, so I knew it was back to plan A, which was to run 24. My marathon is only 4 weeks out, so time to get in some good long runs.
I thought I could do 9s OK, even though I have had trouble with that pace all summer on long runs. It is a little cooler now and I am a little better conditioned. The first mile came in at 9:18, the second at 8:42 and I knew I would probably do better than 9s. Heart rate stayed low, I was not over 150 bpm until mile 18. This run was textbook long and slow. Finished off a little faster, last mile was 8:25, 161 bpm. Average 146 bpm, max 163, never worked very hard. Altogether 24.0 miles in 3:30:22, 8:46/mile. Happy that I can run this well in relatively warm conditions. I took one drink at 8 miles and nothing the rest of the way, I guess that makes me a desert tortoise.
Got back to the house and cracked two eggs for breakfast, both doubles.
My son the bodybuilder, who eats more eggs than Gaston, is insanely jealous. He has only gotten one double in his lifetime. It's one of those days.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 47.50 | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 63.50 |
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