| 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 | | 86.28 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 88.28 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.20 |
| 63F, 100%, SSW 6 mph. Quite warm today, relatively speaking. I didn't think it would affect me and I don't think it did, but I wasn't able to run the planned workout. I wanted to do 20 at a 9:00 pace, but my legs simply couldn't withstand that distance today. I quit at 15 when the pain started to get bad enough that I was concerned about injury. Overall 15.20 miles in 2:23:29, 9:26 per mile, 144 bpm/150 max. Some of the last miles were over 10:00, hard to believe I could still run that slow when putting out any sort of an effort. My heart rate dropped to below 140 on the last mile, so it wasn't an aerobic issue, just tired legs. Very surprising after not running on Sunday. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 56F, 75%, NNE 8 mph. Out the door at 4:10 to beat a rainstorm, weather from the north coming back in, pretty good running weather. Ran 10.0 miles in 1:27:30, 8:21/mile, 151 bpm/167 max. Last two were 7:49 (164) and 7:53 (165), kind of difficult but not that bad. Night and day from yesterday but no real explanation. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| 41F, 100%, N 1 mph. Pretty much fantastic weather today. I left gloves in the mailbox and found that I needed them after the first loop, but after that I was not uncomfortable. Ran 16.00 miles in 2:20:17, 8:46/mile, 143 bpm/153 max. Despite the great weather, I don't think it really explains the difference between today and Monday. If Monday had been a heat-related issue I would have had an elevated heart rate at the end, but it was the opposite. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 36F, 100% and calm. Saw the temperature, panicked and put on two shirts. I was sweating like a redneck at a spelling bee after one loop, so I went to short sleeves and no gloves, froze the rest of the way. Didn't feel too good to start, stride felt short and clompy. But things smoothed out and I had a good run. 10.00 miles in 1:22:53, 8:18 per mile, 148 bpm, 166 max. Last two miles were about 7:50. So a little faster than Tuesday at a little bit lower heart rate. If it was 20F out who knows what I could do. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 17.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.08 |
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58F, 100%, ENE 3 mph. Out the door at 4:23. Felt great the first mile or two then it felt too warm. Really didn't affect me though. Ran 17.08 in 2:28:57, 8:43/mile, 145 bpm/157 max. Nothing fancy, just pounding them out. But 40 seconds per mile better than Monday, HR only 1 tic higher and temp only 5 degrees cooler, so something good happened to me this week after Monday.
So we have this guy in our neighborhood who rides a very tall unicycle every morning. His head is at least 10 feet off the ground and he doesn't go much faster than me. I have no idea what the training theory behind a unicycle is, I suspect there isn't one. He is always out no matter how early, I have seen him at 4 a.m., as far as I know he rides all night, searching for holes in our neighborhood security I suppose. He very pleasantly says hi every morning, but I am not fooled. I have my eye on UnaTed and I will turn him in if anything happens, before he turns me in. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
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64F, 100% and calm. Pretty warm for a December morning, even in Houston. Got it done though. Went to the Y but Wade is traveling this week and I didn't feel like running fast. Eventually I ended up running with Elizabeth, who is a pretty good runner that has been fighting sickness and injury. The group was running 18.8 and I was running 20. We ran about 9:40 pace most of the way, speeding up a little bit at times but basically slogging it out. Her hip started to kill her so she had to stop about 3 miles from the end, but it was the furthest she had run in 2 years. I came in the last 3 at about an 8:50 pace. Recovered a little bit then drove back out along the course looking for her but never found her, hopefully she got a ride from somebody. I really hope she didn't exacerbate the injury. She has a marathon and a 50-miler coming up in the first quarter next year.
20.00 miles in 3:10:27, 9:31 per mile, 143 bpm, 166 max. Honestly I probably wouldn't have run this much faster on my own, it has been a lot of miles this week, but a good week. Feel like I accomplished something, but the proof is on race day (January 1) and it has been a while since I ran a really good marathon. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 86.28 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 88.28 |
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