| 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 | | 16.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.27 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.09 |
| 38F, 78% and calm. After complaining about an early summer on Saturday I got a magnificent mid-winter morning today. Too bad my pace was somewhere between a road construction schedule and being put on hold by United. Ran 4.09 miles in 40:40, 9:57 per mile, about 155 bpm. Was quite difficult to maintain even this pace, but it was faster than Saturday at least. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.09 |
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40F, 58%, NNE 8 mph. Even better weather than yesterday. Actually felt a little lighter today, same 4.09 mile route in 39:52, 9:40 per mile, 155 bpm average.
Went back to my other doctor today, the one checking all my chemistry. I have low iron and low vitamin D2, the latter because I never get outside in the sun. He thinks I am overtrained, couldn't believe it when I told him I run everyday. He asked me how I run after taking two days off, and I told him I run faster, of course. But I am hardly overtrained. I ran my best two races (two half marathons in a three-week period) early last year at the same time I ran 100 miles in a week, as well as other high-mileage weeks around it. I told him I think I can train a lot as long as I keep the speed down, it is running hard too often that kills the goose. So we'll have this guy stick with chemistry for now, still not sure I know what has happened to my body, but he has me on a 12-week regimen with high dosages of vitamins and iron. Hopefully by then I will be back into a training program enough to check my vitals apples-to-apples with a couple of training cycles last year. Physical therapy tomorrow. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.09 |
| 55F, 86%, E 6 mph. 4.09 miles in 38:35, 9:26/mile. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 66F, 85%, S 6 mph. 4.00 miles in 42:21, 10:35/mile, 146 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.27 |
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