| 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 | | 25.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.04 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.04 |
| 73F, 89% humidity, cloudy and calm. Great morning for running, but trouble with my ankle. I ran 7.04 miles in 1:04:09, average pace 9:07 per mile, flat shoes. Everything was going great, feeling strong and planning on 12 miles, running in the 8:20 to 8:30 range after a couple of warmup miles. Then I felt sharp pains in my right foot, on the outside below the ankle. I pulled up and walked in and iced it. By the time I left for work it stiffened and I limped badly all day. It is better this morning (Tuesday morning) but it is definitely going to be a low mileage week, mostly on my friend the elliptical torture device. Usually in the cold light of the morning after I can identify what I did wrong, why I was working up to a problem. This one came out of nowhere, honestly can't say what I was doing wrong or how I could have prevented it. That is frustrating, but I planned on an easy week anyway so will make do. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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Did 30 minutes on elliptical this morning. I limped badly on Monday with the ankle/heel injury, limped around again yesterday but with longer steps, and felt pretty good this morning. The elliptical hurt for a few minutes but I got warmed up the injury receded to mere background noise. Could have gone longer but there was no need, the object today was to just get going again. After showering and walking around, it looks like most of my limp is gone, so still on track to run again starting about Saturday. As I continue to run I notice that I recover from hard runs faster. I wonder if the same is true of injuries. If I can get back to running this week, this injury will have been nothing more than a small glitch. Just speculation though, trying not to count my chickens quite yet.
Instead of running yesterday I ate. Started out with a large breakfast of eggs, rice, toast with butter and jam and orange juice, then a massive lunch at the best Thai restaurant in Houston (it is recruiting season at our law firm) where I ate way too much hot food, followed by a recruiting dinner at a steak house. At dinner I was smart enough to order salmon (yep, I was one of those guys who orders fish at a steak house), but with the salad, sides and dessert it must have added up to 2000 calories. My GI tract rebelled, but I'm back to normal now. I think I gained two pounds yesterday. | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| One hour on the elliptical this morning, half frontwards and half backwards. Ankle feeling better again today, but improvement is not as dramatic as yesterday. I still think I will be ready to run again by Saturday. I have about given up on reading to pass the time, too awkward trying to wrestle a newspaper while bouncing around on a machine. I'm going to try my iPod tomorrow. I don't like to run with it but it might be good for the gym. I figured out today that the reason I don't like the gym it is because it is mindless, and in my opinion running is not mindless. I wonder if there is anybody other than a recovering runner who goes to the gym every day for aerobic exercise. Walkers and runners can tend to be pretty regular, but I do not see the same people every day at the gym, it is always somebody different. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 90 minutes on elliptical. I tried running to the clubhouse (1/3 mile), but unfortunately my foot is still not up to it, which means my long run tomorrow will be short at best, possibly nada. I feel fine walking around, but it just isn't there yet. Bummer. Tomorrow is going to be the hottest day of the year and I was really looking forward to that. Not really. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 25.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.04 |
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