| 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 | | 23.02 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.02 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.56 |
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46F, 4.56 miles in 1:00:01, average pace 13:10, average heart rate 124 bpm. No joint or tendon pain. As I promiised myself, I'm scaling it back this week. I was curious as to how I would feel after Saturday's run. My legs were a little wooden to start but they felt fine after a mile or so. I was glad that I had no trouble controlling my heart rate, but interestingly I felt quite tired at the end, as if I had run twice the distance. It might be residual fatigue, but it might also be attributable to running in another gear, since my heart rate was measurably slower than usual for these easy runs. I thought I was already in the lowest gear but maybe not. That would be an interesting development.
Go Rockets (sorry guys). | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.55 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.55 |
| 48F, 4.55 miles in 1:00:01, average pace 13:11, average heart rate 125 bpm. Almost identical to yesterday's run, except that my heart rate started going crazy at about mile 3.5. It came back down quickly and behaved the rest of the run. I think it was mechanical, but there is always something new. No dogs, wild animals or rude bikers today. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.68 |
| 48F, 4.68 miles in 1:00:00, average pace 12:49, average heart rate 124 bpm. This has to be the best week of running weather ever, three straight days in the upper 40s with a full moon and no rain or even any clouds. Too bad I'm in an easy week but I'm enjoying it anyway. The only interesting thing is that today's distance was better than Monday or Tuesday. Based on limited data, it seems that Tuesday is usually my best day, but I think yesterday I was still recovering from Saturday's run on Tuesday. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.66 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.66 |
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50F, 4.66 miles in 1:00:00, 12:52 average pace, 124 bpm average heart rate. All systems feel fine. Just another day in running paradise. I think it is going to warm up in a couple of days, just in time for my long run on Saturday. I bought six round trip tickets last night for my son's weddng in December. Every race entry fee is looking precious these days. I think 2010 will be mainly a training year. It's free to open the front door and start running. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.57 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.57 |
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48F, 4.57 miles in 1:00:01, average pace 13:07, average heart rate 125 bpm. I let my heart rate get away from me in the first quarter and couldn't control it well after that, so 15 seconds per mile slower than yesterday. Still can't believe this fantastic weather, we don't get weather like this very often in Texas.
My son is taking an evolution class at BYU (from his uncle, who ran a 3:47 at St. George this year) and he sent me a 2004 article yesterday from Nature magazine, published by professors from Harvard and the University of Utah, about human physiological adaptation to long distance running. A bit technical but fascinating. All of a sudden I believe in evolution, which apparently supports my running habit;-) Then he sent me this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1PnR0IYy8) showing a persistence hunter in East Africa running a large kuzu to exhaustion then finishing him off with one spear stroke, an 8-hour hunt -- this one I can understand. (By the way, he is wearing shoes, not barefoot, not sandals, but running shoes, Nike should be all over this one.) | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
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11.00 miles in 2:00:01, average pace 10:55 per mile, no heart rate monitor today. Temperature was 48F at beginning, 65F at the end. Splits were:
10:51, 10:43, 11:16, 11:07, 10:48, 10:57, 10:50, 10:49, 11:07, 10:40, 10:48.
I was trying to keep the pace to 11:00 today and I got it close enough. Frankly, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, had no problem keeping the speed down. My stride felt jerky and I never got into an easy rhythm. I did it, though. We are not machines, some days go better and some not as good. This whole week has been a rest week, but after today I'm not sure I'm ready to go after it again. I probably will anyway.
I decided to eat while running and that went OK. Whenever I eat during a race it doesn't go too well, so maybe a little bit of practice will help. I ate a handful of crackers at the 1:30 mark so that I was good and tired but still had a ways to go. No issues, they tasted good in fact.
I ran down by the bayou on a paved trail. Lots of people down there, hundreds actually. Lots of dogs, but they were all acclimated to having people around so no problems. Bikers behaved too. It started to get hot towards the end, a three hour run would have been difficult today. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 23.02 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.02 |
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