| 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 | | 50.10 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.10 |
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| 79F, 84%, S 3mph. Back in Houston, ran 10 at normal LHR pace, 1:40:48, 10:07/mile. Felt good to be back in the soup, in a twisted sort of way. Heart rate was 53/135/141 | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Didn't run today. Legs are still recovering from some rough miles last week -- could feel some things going on in my left foot so I decided to take the day off. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 75F, 99%, W 2 mph. Pretty muggy this morning. Ran 10.00 in 1:26:53, 8:51/mile. Ran the first 5 slow then picked up to GMP for the last 5: 10:08 (127), 9:42 (135), 9:12 (141), 9:12 (144), 9:09 (140), 8:13 (158), 8:16 (162), 8:09 (167), 8:19 (170) and 8:04 (176). Finished the miles readily enough, improving, but heart rate is still too high. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.44 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.44 |
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76F, 97%, SSW 3 mph. Went on an ultra-low heart rate run in the morning, 6.18 miles at 10:41/mile. 53 RHR, 121 average, 126 max. Was surprised I could run at all at this speed, but according to my test at the performance lab this is where I burn the most fat. Have to see if this is a viable pace or not.
PM: 96F (98 heat index), 31%, SE 4 mph. Didn't have a watch or HR monitor, but ran for 58 minutes and went 6.26 miles according to the computer, comes out to about 9:16 pace, but the time isn't exact, could have been plus or minus 20 seconds -- heart rate felt about 155 to 160 level of effort at the end. Didn't really want much more than that. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.36 |
| 79F, 88%, SW 4 mph to start, 85F, 72%, WNW 8 mph at end. Started late and ended up running a lot in the sun, plus tried the low-low heart rate thing again. Did not work at all for this distance in the bright sunlight, ended up with some 12+ miles at the end and the heart rate still got away from me. Overall 12.36 miles in 2:21:41, about 11:30 per mile. RHR 50, 125 average, 139 max. Totally exhausted at the end, believe it or not. There is a lot of work to do in this training zone. I didn't even know it was down there. Hope I didn't cannibalize my long run tomorrow. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.30 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.30 |
| 78F, 88%, WSW 3 mph. Started at 5:00 a.m. but really should have started about 4:30. Goal was a 20-mile fast-finish long run, 8 laps around a 2.5 mile course I have marked in my neighborhood. Did better than last time (3 weeks ago) but still didn't pull it off. Felt good through the first 10: 9:19 (136), 9:21 (139), 9:05 (143), 9:20 (143), 9:10 (145), 9:15 (146), 9:09 (143), 9:12 (147), 9:18 (149) and 9:13 (151), so heart rate held steady until the last two then started climbing pretty quickly. The fast ones started off well but I got tired quickly: 8:09 (163), 8:18 (166), 8:13 (169), 8:12 (173) and 8:08 (176). 0.3 WU/CD. For the "official" miles, my overall average was 8:53. I think if I could have held 170 for a couple of more miles I would have been able to finish the run. I stopped for water/Gatorade at mile 5 and 10, then every lap after that. Was starting to feel dizzy on the last two laps so I shut it down. But certainly an improvement over the last one, and way beyond anything I could have attempted 6 weeks ago. I'll probably try again in a week and see if I can do it -- giving myself one last shot at a BQ in August. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 50.10 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.10 |
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