| 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 | | 16.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.08 |
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73F, 94% SW 3 mph to start, 68F, 94%, WNW 7 mph to end, but a lot happened in between. I was pretty sore after yesterday, especially in my right achilles, so I was ready to pull the plug whenever it was needed. As it turned out, I lasted the whole run and even felt a little better than yesterday, though my heart rate was no better. I ran 16.08 miles in 2:43:06, average pace 10:09 per mile. It was warm and muggy when I started, but the air was unsettled and cloud cover was very low, intermittent drizzles that didn't amount to much. Then at about mile 5 I started running through heavy cells of rain, 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off. Completely soaked but not a real good reason to stop. There was no lightning or thunder, even though I listened hopefully without success. Then that weather pattern stopped and things actually dried out a bit until sunrise. Right at sunrise, mile 13.5, the sky got that angry look -- if you have ever lived here you know what I mean. You know without checking that there is a severe weather warning out. Still no thunder, though, so I kept going. Right as the front passed, the shafts of warm and cold air became striated, I would run through warm for a while then cold then warm again. This lasted for 5 minutes or so then it turned uniformly cool. About 10 minutes later the clouds let loose and I was in a Texas frog strangler the rest of the way home. 2 miles of running in horizontal sheets of rain, but worst of all my neighbors all got a good look in broad daylight at the crazy guy who lives in the red brick house.
Checked the severe weather report when I got home and it had all the predictable stuff, fast moving front, watch for funnel clouds, careful of rising water, blah, blah. I liked this one though: "Seek shelter in a sturdy structure or non-convertible automobile." We have lots of rednecks around here; whenever there are tornadoes around the government tries to keep them out of trailer parks and 20-year old Cadillacs with the tops sawn off, although why I don't know. As I think about it, though, there were no rednecks out in this weather except me. | | |
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