| 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 | | 45.58 | 10.43 | 5.06 | 0.00 | 61.07 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 10.43 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.43 |
| 39F, 93% NNW 12-20 mph, raining off and on. More miserable weather, but today is the last day. Yesterday it was raining steadily when I got up to do a long run; I then drove to the gym and the power was out, so I got nothin'. Today was light rain when I got up so I decided to go out and do a quick 10, translate MGP -- weather held for a couple of miles then it started raining steadily. First one was 9:08, averaged 7:45 after that. Overall 10.43 miles in 1:22:59, 7:57/mile. Last 4 plus stub: 7:38 (174), 7:57 (174), 7:55 (175), 7:43 (175) and 7:47 (175). Average heart rate 166, high 178. Pretty high heart rate for marathon pace, but it was super cold out there, chilled to the bone by mile 5, had a hard time holding pace through the end of the run. Not sure if today's paces mean anything good or bad.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 23.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 23.00 |
| 39F, 83%, NNW 10 mph and clear. Quite a difference, but I suspect it was colder than reported, as all the cars had frost on them. I was almost as cold today as yesterday, really had to fight to maintain pace toward the end of the run. Just a regular long run, nothing special, trying to make these closer to marathon distance to ease the pain on race day. Probably not the best idea the day before a race, but I'm not going to taper for a Turkey Trot. Suffer now, celebrate later. Sure hope that "later" thing works out.
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GE Run Through the Woods (5.06 Miles) 00:35:44, Place overall: 173, Place in age division: 7 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.50 | 0.00 | 5.06 | 0.00 | 5.56 |
| 32F, 97%, calm and sunny. Our annual Turkey Trot race out in The Woodlands. Thought I might be able to hit 7 flat but wasn't quite there. Total of 5.06 miles in 35:44, average pace of 7:04. Individual splits were 7:26, 7:05, 7:00, 6:59, 6:59 and 6:02 for the stub. My division was fast, 6:03 pace won it, he was the 4th master. Possibly could have finished a little faster if I hadn't gotten bottled up in the first mile, I'll have to move further to the front next year. I finished almost the same against my age group as against the whole field. My oldest daughter ran as well, got 10th in her division. Wade and Linda also ran and were happy with their times -- Wade got 15th in his division running at a 7:28 pace, he is closing the gap. It was cold but without the wind and rain we have had it was a pretty runnable. Have to be pretty happy with this time, I have run nothing at these paces other than the last week.
We rushed home and ate.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.06 |
| 36F, 97%, NE 3 mph. 10.06 miles in 1:56:35, 11:36/mile, low heart rate 120 average, 125 max. Legs a little tired from racing yesterday, but not bad. Still cold and that slows me down too.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.02 |
| 40F, 97%, calm and sunny. Left late and ran with my daughter. It was her shakeout run for a half marathon coming up in two weeks. Her PR for the half-marathon distance is 8:25 I think she said. Goal today was to hit 8:30 but we got 8:21 and she finished in good shape. I would say that PR is history. Overall 150 bpm. Last 4 miles were 8:26 (150), 8:15 (152), 8:07 (155) and 7:51 (159).
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 45.58 | 10.43 | 5.06 | 0.00 | 61.07 |
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