| 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 | 46.80 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.00 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 10.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.40 |
| 66F, 90%, N 8 mph. Didn't run yesterday morning due to a thunderstorm, then couldn't get out the rest of the day, so whiff on that one. Plan is to do all LLHR this week, have lost a little of that base as I was getting ready for Boston. Also, need a little time to decide on the best way to get through the summer and ready for a couple of fall races. Today was 10.4, broken Garmin but I ran somewhere between 11:30 and 11:45 per mile, heart rate felt about right but it was a guess.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 10.40 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.60 |
| 53F, 90%, NNW 1 mph, clear skies. Rare running weather this morning. Have developed a little bit of back pain, but couldn't pass it up for the second day in a row. Same LLHR run as Tuesday, 10.4, no watch yet.
PM: 6.2 on the TM after work, starting at 6.7 mph, got impatient and worked up to 8.7 mph. Took a little bit more out of me than I intended, but felt good.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| 58F, 90%,W 4 mph. Ran 13.0 miles at LLHR, still no Garmin, might have run them a little fast but hard to tell, since legs were wooden after last night's TM run.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| 60F, 86%, W 3 mph and clear. Probably the last good running day, I think it gets hot after this and stays that way. Bought a new Garmin yesterday and broke it in this morning. 10:36/mile, LLHR. This result will provide a good baseline for the summer. My fastest LLHR time in the Boston training cycle, or any other time, was 10:31, and that was a 5-mile run on April 1, compared to 13 today. Nothing else under 10:40 and only a few under 11, so this was a very good result. Have been fighting back pain all week but it hasn't affected my running yet.
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 46.80 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.00 |
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