| 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 | | 61.34 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 61.34 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
| 48F, 62%, ENE 7 mph. 10.20 miles in 1:38:28, average 9:39 per mile. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.05 |
| 64F, 100%, SE 13 mph. Warm, humid and windy. Ran 10 at 4:00, did the seminary run then 10 more. 20.05 miles in 3:10:52, average 9:31 per mile. Ran first 10 at LHR, about 10:10, then sped up for the last 10 to about 8:45 to 9:00 pace. Then worked all night and went to bed just in time to turn off my alarm. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 54F, 92%, NNE 8-17. Cooling off, but my Garmin battery was dead so I didn't get an accurate distance. Based on where I ran it was about 11 miles; tried to keep it slow but I think I might have run too fast at times. Work has been brutal, plus I have travel coming up first half of next week. It is Chicago, not sure how much I can run. I don't even own a trench coat -- isn't that what you wear in Chicago? Then traveling again on New Years Day. Hard to keep the routine going. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.09 |
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51F, 89%, NE 10 mph. The temperature seemed lower and the wind heavier than officially. Was planning to meet Wade at 4:45 to run to the Y and meet up with the group. My alarm went off as scheduled, then the next thing I knew it was 4:30. Luckily I was able to get Wade on his cell so he wasn't standing in the cold waiting for me. Left the house at 4:50, met Wade at 5:05 and we proceeded to the Y for a 5:50 start running faster than we intended, had 7 miles by the time we got there, just right for a well timed visit to the facilities. We met up with two other guys, Mike and David and the four of us were quickly back out for another 4 or 5 before Wade and I headed back to his house. Left Wade there at mile 14 and ran to my neighborhood and finished the last miles here. 20.05 miles in 2:51:09, average pace 8:31 per mile, maxHR 168, aveHR 154. I managed to speed up a little after I left Wade, down to 8:09 on the last mile, but I have all kinds of cramping in my calf today, like I ran a marathon instead of a medium-paced 20 miles.
On the way to the Y we ran into a guy who had two young german shepherds with him -- loose. They would just play as long as we were walking but would want to bite whenever we started running. He was yelling at them to no avail. Finally another runner came from the other direction and it was his problem. About two minutes later we met a group of 20 or so runners coming up out of the Y, I bet that was interesting when they found the dogs, but there was no blood or yellow tape on the trail when we ran back, so maybe it all worked out.
Not sure, but I think I'm getting old. Wade's heart rate was running 7 to 10 bpm less than mine this morning, a year ago it was the other way around. Part of it is him getting better, but my LHR pace has not improved during this base phase, for which there is only about 4 weeks left. Wade thinks it is stress and lack of sleep, and that may be part of it, but not the whole story. I ordered some books to see if I can figure things out. If I have run a lifetime PR already, so be it, but not conceding anything quite yet. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 61.34 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 61.34 |
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