| 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 | | 60.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.18 |
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73F, 94%, SSE 4 to start, 77F, 89%, S 8 to end. Out the door at 5:00 for a re-do of Saturday's run. This time my run for the day before was 0 instead of 14 and it made a big difference, had no problem with the run other than the last 2 miles which were in the broad daylight, but that is a matter of conditioning. I hope to run quite a bit in the daylight this summer and get more acclimated to the heat than I have in other years. But despite liberal body glide all of the sweating has left me raw, very painful post-run shower. 20.00 miles in 3:21:27, 10:04/mile, 56 RHR, 149/172.
About 2 miles in there was a huge emergency response going on in the neighborhood I was running through. I was most of the way through the neighborhood when a cop car looked like he was trying to turn in front of me. I moved out of the way but eventually realized he wanted to talk. He asked me if I had seen a black male, but I hadn't seen anybody. He said somebody had been shot and that I should go home. I explained that I would have to go back through the neighborhood to do that and I might as well continue. He said OK and left. I have been unable to find any details. | | Comments(8) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.18 |
| 74F, 91%, SSE 8 mph. 6.18 miles in 1:01:59, 10:02/mile, 55 RHR, 140/145. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
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77F (81F finish), 88%, SSE 8-17. 10.0 miles in 1:36:13, 9:37/mile, 149/163.
PM Vitamin D run: 5:00 p.m. -- 88F, strong south wind, 10:0 miles at 9:38/mile, 157/170. Big solar run, was OK until the last two miles then died. Need to do more of these. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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79F, 88%, S 9 mph. Went with Wade to run with a different group we got an invite to. Some fast runners, faster than us at least. They said they were going to run 12 at 8:15, which is beyond our capabilities right now, at least in this heat. We told them we would try to run 4 and then we would turn around and jog it in. I got there at 5:00 and ran a warmup mile, then another one with Wade. The group arrived and we took off, first mile 7:44, second one about the same. I was holding up surprisingly well, but Wade is not recovered from his surgery yet, so we slowed down, not that I cared at all. We ran low to mid-8s for the next two and kept the speedsters in sight before we turned around. Not too bad, good to know there is a little bit of speed left. Plus a lot of these runners slowed way down as well, we weren't the only ones feeling the heat.
PM sunshine and 90F, 55%, SSE 5 mph. 4.0 miles in 35:04, progression run, 8:46/mile, 9:19 down to 8:23, no HRM. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 60.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.18 |
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