| 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 | | 48.09 | 10.50 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 59.59 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 53F, 89% (DP 50F), ENE calm breeze. Warmed up 2 quickly, then 4 fast ones. Trouble on the first fast one, came in at same time as warmup (about 8:00) even though I definitely sped up, raising my heart rate by 7 bpm I can't explain it. Garmin may be breaking down. The remaining splits came in faster, ended at 7:07 for mile 6. Overall HR 152, 171 max. Back to the gym this morning after a long layoff.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| 60F, 98% (DP 59F), calm. Just slow miles today, 6.3 LLHR at 11:09 pace, 121 bpm. Legs pretty sore from weights yesterday, after a long hiatus. Happy it wasn't any slower than it was.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 74F, 95% (DP 73F), S 3-5 mph. Very warm again. Warmed up for one, 8:51, then planned to do 10 at 8-minute pace. The first one came in unexpectedly at 7:41 so I went with it, ended up with 6.5 at marathon pace, averaged 7:52/mile including the warmup mile. Wade ran the last 2 with me and then I re-set the Garmine and we jogged it out to finish 10. Overall probably a better run than Monday.
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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 |
| 63F. Recovery run, 8:49/mile, 139 bpm average, 144 max, then quick session at the gym, legs and core. On my way to work by 7:15, right in the heart of the traffic, as I had a 9:00 meeting downtown. By the time I parked and walked to the conference room it was 9:00. Low oil prices are not slowing down the Houston economy, at least yet.
Legs are quite sore this week from weights, which means it is way past time to get going on that again.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.29 |
| 59F. 6.29 more recovery miles. Legs are starting to feel better, but didn't want to wear them out today, as I have a long long run tomorrow. 8:39/mile; average HR 143, 152 max.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 24.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 |
| 54F (DP 41F), calm and dry. Perfect weather. Set my alarm for 3:30 and was out the door at 3:49. Ran 11.8, mostly in my neighborhood, then ending up at Wade's house; ran another 11 with him; then 2.2 back to my neighborhood. Felt reasonably good throughout, told Wade at mile 15 that I was probably going to make the full 25 goal, but promised him I wouldn't take a step further, and I didn't.
First split over 150 bpm was mile 16. At first I thought it was an improvement over my last long long run, March 28; but upon checking I see that made it through 23 that day before breaking 150. Weather on the two days was almost identical, but overall pace then was 8:33 and it was 8:25 today. At today's pace I would have finished the marathon in 3:39:01 compared to an actual marathon time of 3:44:37 on March 28. Not a completely equivalent run, though, because the last 4 were fastest on that one. Last split today was 8:00. Average HR 149, max 164. 3:30:21 total running time. So today was good for the first long long run of this training cycle. Mentally it was OK, probably some lingering benefit from last spring. More importantly, my legs feel like they survived it well enough -- I think I will be ready on Monday to run a workout.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 48.09 | 10.50 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 59.59 |
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