| 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 | | 60.81 | 0.00 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 64.54 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 63F, 41%, NE 8 mph and clear. Pretty good weather, haven't seen 41% humidity in a long time, if ever, didn't know it was possible for here. Made the 63F seem pretty cool. Ran 8.5 before the seminary run, then another 5.5 while waiting for seminary kids so I could drive them to school. 14.00 miles in 2:01:44, 8:42/mile, 144 bpm. Then after work I did 6 more at a 9:00 pace followed by legs and core. | | Comments(7) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.64 | 0.00 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 15.37 |
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50F, 100%, clear and calm. Slept right through my alarm, don't know the last time that happened. The alarm seems to be in perfect working condition. But I got 8 hours of sleep, which feels great. I woke up on my own just in time to do the seminary run, so I went out afterwards for a shortened session. Had planned to do 10 x 1K but cut it down to 6 x 1K. I could still feel the leg weights this morning, pretty tired the whole run and wasn't sure I could hit my splits. I planned to do 4:21 (7:00 pace). Ended up getting them, although it wasn't easy: 6:58 (160), 7:00 (162), 6:51 (165), 6:50 (166), 6:55 (168) and 6:58 (167). 3-mile warmup and 1.5 mile cooldown. Felt deep fatigue after finishing. Overall 10.37 miles in 1:24:57, 8:12 pace. It is sobering to think about my chances of running this pace for the marathon distance.
PM: 5.0 on the TM at 9:30 pace. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.04 |
| 64F, 91%, SSW 7 mph. A little warmer but still not bad. Ran 9.04 miles prior to seminary run, 1:17:24, 8:34 pace, 143 bpm. Had to go to work early, so that was it. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.13 |
| 69F, 96%, SSW 5 mph. Getting hot again. Out the door at 4:15 and ran 10 before the seminary run, then a half hour later went back out for 10 more. Overall 20.13 miles in 2:56:50, 8:42 per mile, 147 bpm. I have acquired some shin splint-type pain low on the front of my right leg and a little bit in my foot. Hurts to flex my foot up, but not to extend it, kind of the opposite of Achilles pain. It is responding well to ice. Hurts like crazy when I go out the second time, then hurts again about 3 miles in before going away. Never had anything like it and trying to think what I'm doing different. I don't think it's the extra miles, most likely I got it lifting weights on Monday. Either that or my stride has changed somehow. I'm watching it, but so far it doesn't look like it will be significant. | | Comments(13) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 60.81 | 0.00 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 64.54 |
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