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Location:

Kingsbury,TX,USA

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

 

Some day I will not be able to do this...today is not that day!

Started Running (6/1/10) @ 50 Yrs Old

  • 5K:
    • 22:26 (7:14 pace) McAllister Park 8/14/10
    • 22:24 San Marcos (7:13 pace) 10/19/10
    • 21:09 San Marcos (6:49 pace) 11/20/10
    • 20:19 San Marcos-Faith Run (6:33 pace) 5/26/12
    • 20:06 Fentress (6:26 pace) 10/20/12
    • *19:21 Gruene (6:20 pace) 11/22/12 (*Short Course)
    • 19:42 San Marcos-Faith Run (6:21 pace) 5/25/13
    • 19:42 San Marcos-Faith Run (6:21 pace) 5/24/14 (Not a Typo, exactly same time as last year)
    • 21:38 New Braunfels Orange Leaf (6:58 pace) 7/19/14
    • 19:33 Gruene Turkey Trot (6:18 pace) 11/27/14
    • 19:43 Kyle-For the Love of Go (6:27 pace) 2/14/15
  • 5 Miles:

    • 34:03 (6:48 pace) Hillsboro, Ill 7/4/11
  • 10Ks:
    • 43:24 (7:00 pace) Gatesville, Tx 6/4/11
  • Half Marathons:
    • 1:42:16 (7:48 pace) Austin Livestrong  2/20/11
    • 1:36:23 (7:21 pace) Moe's Better Half  3/6/11
    • 1:35:55 (7:19 pace) Chosen Half Marathon for Adoption 10/29/11
    • 1:30:10 (6:53 pace) Austin 3M 1/2/12
    • 1:43:13 (7:54 pace) Orange Leaf  7/14/12
    • 1:33:44 (7:08 pace) Chosen Half Marathon for Adoption 10/27/12
    • 1:32:23 (7:03 pace) Austin 3M 1/13/13
    • 1:35:16 (7:16 pace) Marathon for Adoption 10/26/13 (Ran off-course .3 miles)
    • 1:36:48 (7:23 pace) SA Rock-N-Roll 11/17/13
    • 1:37:06 (7:25 pace) Chosen Half Marathon for Adoption 10/25/14
    • 2:00:28 (9:11 pace) Long Beach Half Marathon (Paced Callie) 10/11/15
    • 1:39:29 (7:35 pace) Marathon for Adoption 11/21/15
    • 1:34:06 (7:11 pace) Marathon for Adoption 11/19/16
    • 1:37:43 (7:37 pace) Marathon for Adoption 11/18/17
    • 1:36:30 (7:22 pace) Marathon for Adoption 11/17/18
    • 1:45:10 (8:01 Paced Callie) Surf City Half Marathon 2/2/20
  • Marathons:
    • 3:38:09 (8:19 pace) Oklahoma City Marathon 5/1/11
    • 3:30:16 (8:01 pace) Ft. Worth Cowtown 2/26/12
    • 3:30:53 (8:03 pace) Oklahoma City Marathon 4/29/12 
    • 0:00:00 (DNF) Ft Worth Cowtown Marathon 2/24/13 (Ran off-course)
    • 3:22:56 (7:44 pace) Temple Army Marathon BQ 4/21/13
    • 3:27:24 (7:55 pace) Boston Marathon BQ  4/21/14 
    • 3:18:40 (7:35 pace) CIM Marathon BQ 12/7/14
    • 3:33:07 (8:08 pace) San Antonio R&R Marathon BQ 12/7/16
    • 3:25:32 (7:51pace) The Woodlands Marathon BQ 3/3/18
    • 3:26:17 (7:52 pace) The Woodlands Marathon BQ 3/2/19
  • Triathlons:
  • (1:12:23) Martindale (Sprint) Tri For Old Glory 7/1/12
  • Ragnar Relay:
  • (28:24:24) SoCal Ragnar 4/6-7/18 

Short-Term Running Goals:

  • Running Boston Marathon with Callie 2020 ...!!!
  • Break 19:00 in the 5K
  • Break 1:28 in Half Marathon
  • Hit 3:16:00 in the Marathon

Upcoming Races: 

  • Boston with Callie...!!! (my daughter)

Long-Term Running Goals:

  • Win 1st in the World Series Team Roping Finals Dec. 2020
  • Run Boston with Callie, My Daughter
  • Run Sub-18:00 5K (Ouch)
  • Run Sub- 3:10 Marathon  Run 3:16 Marathon
  • Compete in a Full Iron Man (Not sure since my two major bike accidents)

Personal:

Married, two kids  Kirby (Baylor University, Married not a a Runner), Callie  (TCU University, Married and Runner).

My main sport is Team Roping, I've been doing that all my life. 

I started running in the spring of 2010.

I Just Run               

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 32.20 Year: 656.81
Brooks Racer ST 5 (Race Shoes) Lifetime Miles: 146.57
Saucony Kinvara 2 (Race Shoes) Lifetime Miles: 430.23
Swim Time Lifetime Miles: 26.00
Trek (Road Bike) Lifetime Miles: 1256.25
Altra-Instinct-Blue Lifetime Miles: 551.67
Altra Instinct Black Lifetime Miles: 520.10
Altra Paradigm Black Second Pair Lifetime Miles: 7.00
Saucony Kinvara 2 Green (Race Shoes) Lifetime Miles: 145.70
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
58.009.004.000.0071.00
Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 71.00
Race: "Such as a time as this"... 00:01:00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.000.000.000.00

12 Hours of Driving today from Joplin, MO home....Thinking "such as a time as this"...

As I left I was torn with the feeling that I wanted to stay and do more. The devastation was great in the city. You can stand in the center of the Tornado's path and look 360 degrees around you and see nothing but demolished homes and buildings. It looks like a war zone with very few structures standing. The huge trees that probably stood 40 of 50 feet high (it would take three people to reach around one) were either blown over or most all of the limbs were torn off. Even the bark was knocked or blown off of the trunks. Cars that had been in the area looked like the ones you see in a junk yard, smashed and completely destroyed. At the outskirts of the tornado’s path you would see one house that looked fine and across the road a completely destroyed home.

We were doing a variety of things including demolishing a home that was completely beyond repair, cleaning an elderly man's lawn of the debris that had blown into it, helping a young family (3 small children) move because their house was destroyed and helping feed volunteers, workers, homeless and locals. At one home I spent time walking around a man's house, with him, as he relived his life through the debris and household items he saw. Each thing he saw had a deep meaning and he contemplated the importance of each.

We aligned ourselves with a couple of guys who have been in Joplin since a few days after the disaster. One is a young entrepreneur who built up and sold several business and retired five years ago and has been living "for himself" for the five years. His draw to Joplin was the excitement of the disaster and his hopes to use his "rescue" dog to find survivors and bodies. ...He could not leave after he saw the need and has been there ever sense. He is organizing volunteer groups to help the victims as they try to reorganize their lives. He was made for “such as a time as this”…

The other is a missionary who also arrived in Joplin just a few days after the tragedy. His group set up initial response teams and stayed a couple of weeks and then decided to leave. This missionary refused to leave...even after his group informed him that they were taking all the resources and supplies. ...He would not leave. He now has a huge set-up with tents, cooler trailers and cookers in the High School parking lot and feeds anyone (volunteers, workers, locals, homeless, anybody) three meals a day. There were probably 500 people there on Saturday at lunch alone. He was made for “such as a time as this”…

In the story of Esther, Mordecai (Esther's step father) challenged Ester to step up and be the person she was created to be and save the Jewish people from destruction. I challenge you to step up and be the person God has made you to be...In your life…where you are… The mother who tenderly loves and cares for her children, the husband who honors his wife, the Son who cares for his sick mother, the Friend who encourages his hurting friend.

"Such as a time as this"..."Such as a time as this"...What is your time?

 

Comments(9)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

This was a hard day running. I guess 12 hours of driving the previous day really took a toll on my legs. They felt puffy and very heavy. I kept looking down to see if someone had strapped 10 pound weights on each foot. I struggled through the 12 miles very hot, tired and sweaty!

Oh...does walking count as running? I walked 3 miles in the evening also :-)

7/11/2011
Mile Time Best Pace Heart Rate HR %
1 9:30:00 121 58% Ran Out Towards Old Church & Back
(Easy Pace)
2 9:09:00 134 67%
3 8:53:00 132 65%
4 9:30:00 139 70%
5 9:02:00 132 65%
6 9:32:00 128 63%
7 9:07:00 129 63%
8 8:54:00 133 66%
9 8:43:00 137 69%
10 8:49:00 139 70%
11 8:21:00 139 70%
12 7:43:00 150 78%
Total 107:13:00 134 67%
Pace 8:56:05 78 Deg. @ 5:30am

Isaiah 40:29-31

29 He gives strength to the weary
   and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
   and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
   will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
   they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 12.00
Comments(2)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.000.000.000.0013.00

Well, today was much better than yesterday. My legs didn't feel nearly as heavy. I'm not exactly sure how to log todays run since it was just above easy (which I catagorize as 140 HR or less). I guess I could call it half easy and half MP but the fastest of the miles are a little too slow to be called MP. I'm considering anything at 8:00 or below MP even though my only marathon run (injured) was 8:19 (I'm still mad about that!). Man it feels hot and humid down here. As soon as I step out the door I start sweating. I lost 6 pounds on this run.

7/12/2011
Mile Time Heart Rate HR %
1 8:42:00 125 61% Big Loop & Out Lonley Road Almost to Old Church
2 8:28:00 137 69%
3 8:15:00 137 69%
4 8:39:00 146 75%
5 8:20:00 140 71%
6 8:21:00 140 71%
7 8:51:00 142 72%
8 8:36:00 139 70%
9 8:22:00 138 70%
10 8:41:00 143 73%
11 8:32:00 144 74%
12 8:22:00 148 76%
13 8:15:00 155 81%
Total 110:24:00 141 78 Deg.(again) at 5:30am
Pace 8:29:32 Very Humid

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 13.00
Comments(7)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.003.000.000.0013.00

Another one of those days where I ran mostly AMP miles. I though, when I first went out, that today would be a faster day and I would be able to increase my run intensity. It was completly dark and I didn't even look at my watch until after mile 6. I was feeling good and just running by feel but at mile 10 I kinda bonked and began to really struggle. I'm assuming it's the heat and hmidity and maybe me getting dehydrated. I felt a little light headed and really struggled from that point to the finish.

7/13/2011
Mile Time Heart Rate HR %
1 8:21:00 128 63% Big Loop & Out Lonley Road to Old Church
2 8:10:00 142 72%
3 7:51:00 143 73%
4 8:42:00 149 77%
5 7:59:00 145 74%
6 8:00:00 149 77%
7 8:15:00 149 77%
8 8:17:00 149 77%
9 8:14:00 151 78%
10 8:19:00 153 80%
11 9:27:00 150 78%
12 8:21:00 154 80%
13 8:45:00 143 73%
Total 108:41:00 147 76 Deg. at 5:30am
Pace 8:21:37 70% Humid

John 3:27-30

 27 John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it is given from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said that I’m not the Christ but that I’m the one sent before him. 29 The groom is the one who is getting married. The friend of the groom stands close by and, when he hears him, is overjoyed at the groom’s voice. Therefore, my joy is now complete. 30 He must increase and I must decrease.

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 13.00
Comments(3)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.000.000.000.0013.00

Here's a good article about running in the heat:

http://www.over40runner.com/info/RunningInTheHeat.html

LHR run today. I just took it easy. My HR seemed lower than normal for the pace. I don't have very many runs where I run this slow to compair this run to.

7/14/2011
Mile Time Heart Rate HR %
1 9:08:00 122 59% Big Loop & Out Lonley Road to Old Church
2 9:17:00 131 65%
3 9:09:00 129 63%
4 9:39:00 133 66%
5 9:12:00 127 62%
6 9:03:00 129 63%
7 9:17:00 128 63%
8 9:14:00 129 63%
9 9:07:00 129 63%
10 9:16:00 131 65%
11 9:22:00 134 67%
12 8:44:00 133 66%
13 9:20:00 135 68%
Total 119:48:00 130 78 Deg. at 5:30am
Pace 9:12:55 80% Humid

Matthew 16:18
I tell you that you are Peter. And I’ll build my church on this rock. The gates of the underworld won’t be able to stand against it.

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 13.00
Comments(5)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.006.004.000.0010.00

Today was a faster pace day so I decided to cut it to 10 miles. I am pretty happy with this run based on the weather conditions. Also happy with the negative split on the two block of 5 miles (I ran 5 then took a short break to get a good drink of water). The split paces were 7:37 (146 HR) and 7:24 (158). At the end of the run I was pretty tired but recovered quickly.

I think I've figured out that I heel strike more when I run slow. My legs and knees hurt more when I run at a 9:30 pace than when I run at a 7:30 pace. Today I concentrated on the "pose" and where my feet were landing. When I run slow I just plod along and run too straight up.

7/15/2011
Mile Time HR HR %
1 7:32:00 129 63% Out & Back Run to Straight Road
(took a couple of minutes rest after 5)
2 7:41:00 146 75%
3 7:32:00 151 78%
4 7:50:00 151 78%
5 7:30:00 152 79%
6 7:11:00 151 78%
7 7:21:00 158 83%
8 7:35:00 159 84%
9 7:24:00 160 85%
10 7:32:00 163 87%
Total 75:08:00 152 79%
Pace 7:30:48 78Âş - 50% Humid

James 2:20
Are you so slow? Do you need to be shown that faith without actions has no value at all?

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 10.00
Comments(6)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

It was all about just doing the miles today. 10 easy miles on the treadmill. I slept in until 7:30 and then went to a friends house to help him with some remodel work on his house. Came home, took a nap and then ran my 10. My hip had a little tweek in it so that's why i kept it slow and easy (124 - 128 HR). I plan on sleeping in again in the morning to catch up on some sleep since I've been feeling a little tired the last couple of days.

10 miles - 10:00 pace - 126HR

John 4:5-7

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”

Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 10.00
Comments(2)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
58.009.004.000.0071.00
Brooks Launch (Retired) Miles: 71.00
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