| 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 | | 37.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 47.00 |
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| 51F, 94%, 66%, NNW 9-18. 5.0 miles at 11:58/mile, LLHR 120 bpm. This seems like a good way to recover and start a new training cycle at the same time.
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| 42F, 84% and calm. 10.0 miles at 11:53/mile, LLHR 121 bpm. Managing some pretty severe back pain, but managing.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 42F, 92%, N 8 mph, gusting. Left the house early for a quick 5 at 8:55/mile (145 bpm), medicated with vitamin I, then took my son-in-law down to play flag football with the local church group. My flag football days are long past, but there was a .7 mile track at the park where they were playing, so I ran around and around, 15 times altogether. Running in the bright sunlight felt remarkably good. First mile was 8:37, everything else was in low 8s, high 7s. Overall 8:02/mile, 162 bpm average, last mile 170 bpm. Legs felt good immediately afterwards, but were pretty trashed by the end of the day. Back is still a big bother. I'm OK as long as I am up and moving but sitting is lethal.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 37F, 96% and calm. Superior running weather this morning. Bundled up a little bit. Started out extremely stiff and sore, but loosened up after 2 miles of LLHR running. First mile was 12:09, then everything else was below 11:40. Last two were 11:11 and 11:18, overall 11:35/mile, 120 bpm average. Never really had a heart rate run with that profile before. Back is still bothersome, however.
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| 59F, 94%, S 2 mph. Warming up considerably for the next few days. More LLHR stuff, 10.0 in 1:59:40, 11:58/mile. I had 11:54/mile through 7, so 19 seconds slower than yesterday, which in turn was coming off of a hard run on Thursday. Conventional wisdom is that you don't start to slow down until 60F, but these numbers seem to say differently. Looking at it another way, I might have missed a huge opportunity in Richmond.
Back still hurting, but it doesn't seem to affect running itself, just everything in between. Took my grandson to the zoo yesterday to ride the train and totaled my car (apparently) on the way home. We are both OK, but there is nothing good about a car wreck. Too many folks in this town with international driving styles, can't look out for all of them. Three-car accident (two more fled). I was the only legal driver.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 37.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 47.00 |
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