| 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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| 57F, 100% and foggy. Wasn't going to run because of back pain, but went out anyway. It doesn't bother me when I am running. 5.0 miles in 56:03, 11:13/mile, LLHR.
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| 45F, 61%, NNW 7 mph. An isolated cool morning, warming right back up. Went out for 10 LLHR miles, 1:52:01, 11:12/mile, 121 bpm (just an estimate, it took a while this morning to get a good HR readout, the monitor doesn't really "attach" very well in colder weather). Had 11:22/mile at mile 5, compared to 11:13 yesterday, so today's run was actually quite a bit better, but it should have been because of the low temps.
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| 53F, 90%, S 1 mph. LLHR run, averaged under 11 for the first time in a while, 10.0 miles in 1:49:49, 10:59/mile, 120 bpm.
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| 55F, 93%, ENE 3 mph. Almost identical conditions to yesterday, but starting to slow a little as the week wears on. 10.0 in 1:50:56, 11:06/mile, 121 bpm.
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| 65F, 99%, ESE 2 mph. It got a lot warmer today, and pace slowed down again, 10.0 miles in 1:53:10, 11:19/mile, 121 bpm.
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| 70F, 94%, W 3 mph. Really getting warm all of a sudden. Didn't want to do LLHR again, especially dealing with high heat/humidity, so went out intending to just mail it in; but once I got going I kept pushing it. Started out in the high 8s and finished in the mid-7s, overall 10.0 in 1:18:59, 7:56/mile overall average, 162 bpm, 181 max. My back and legs felt better all day after running at this speed than they do at low heart rate. Last 5 miles were 7:39 (168), 7:31 (172), 7:35 (174), 7:35 (175) and 7:33 (178). Back seems to be slowly improving but it is a very gradual process. No ibuprofen since Tuesday, so that is good. The less I sit the better I feel.
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