| 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 | | 35.16 | 5.00 | 10.64 | 0.00 | 50.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.90 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 35F, cold, calm and clear. Only 2 days after a failed long run due to high temps, beanie and gloves weather this morning. Another 5 x 1K workout, better this time. Missed the first split, but the others were 7:13 (154), 6:59 (159), 7:01 (163) and 7:00 (165), max 170. Finished with stretching and weights.
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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 |
| 48F, 82% (DP 43F), calm, weather shifting to the east. LLHR, 6.0, 10:32/mile, 120 bpm. It will be hot again by Thanksgiving if the forecast is to be believed.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 66F, 94% (DP 64F), calm from NW, 30° warmer than Monday, probably even warmer tomorrow. No reason to care, though. 1 mile warmup, then 10 x 400 with 400 rest interval. Slowest 7:15, fastest 6:32, HRmax 177. Overall pace was 7:55. Cooldowns were between 8:10 and 8:30. I have a very narrow "hot" band -- not that much difference between a brisk jog and 5K pace.
Stretching and weights.
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GE Run Through the Woods (5.04 Miles) 00:36:23, Place overall: 150, Place in age division: 3 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.04 | 0.00 | 5.04 |
| 73F, another hot Turkey Trot in The Woodlands. Ran this time with two daughters and two granddaughters, we had a great time. Goal was 7:10/mile, got 7:13/mile, so pretty close considering the heat. The old guy in the Daisy Dukes was there, he shows up for every Woodlands race and he is in my age group, so every time I have to re-establish my dominance. He got off the start line ahead of me and I couldn't find him for 3 miles. Finally spotted him and the hunt was on. Passed him at mile 4.5 decisively and that was that. Good thing, too, because unbeknownst to either of us we were fighting for the third age group spot. I beat him by 15 seconds. Second place was a few seconds ahead and first place was about a minute ahead, so the winner was fast but not discouragingly fast. 150th overall, just barely in the top 10%. I ran a 10K in early April as a Boston warmup. This one was somewhat comparable given the temperature difference. Splits were 7:20, 7:02, 7:09, 7:23, then 6:56 for the stub. HRmax 184, average 175. I have hit 193 bpm at this race under similar conditions, so I think I need to work on the top end quite a bit more. It is exhausting up there.
Here are the happy runners; pink was the color of the day, but my son-in-law didn't get the memo.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 71F, 95% (DP 69F), calm breeze, WNW. Planned to go long this morning, but I am beat and slept in. Even 6 was a chore. 1 wu at 8:59, then 5 at about MP, 8:01/mile, last one at 7:50. HRmax 165, 148 average.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 21.76 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 21.76 |
| 50F, 96% (DP 49F) NNW 7 mph and raining off and on. Mostly light sprinkle, but not comfortable with the wind at this temperature. Ran 10.08 in my neighborhood, 8:28/mile, 141 bpm average, 147 max. Then drove to Memorial Park and met SlowJoe for 4 trips around the main loop, as he was in town for Thanksgiving. Great catching up with him but I'm afraid the run didn't do him much good, as we averaged 8:56/mile. He was very kind to hang out that long at my pace. HR was 144 average, 156 max. We called it a day at that point.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 35.16 | 5.00 | 10.64 | 0.00 | 50.80 |
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