| 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 | | 63.06 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 65.56 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 79F 95%, SW 7 mph. Back in the soup, 10.00 miles in 1:31:30, 9:09 per mile, 143 bpm, 150 max. Good overall pace for staying under 150, but I didn't stay under 9:20 for the last mile. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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78F, 100%, W 2 mph. Ran the first 5 at 8:39/mile, staying under 150 bpm except for the last one. The goal was to get the starch out of my legs before doing quarter repeats. Succeeded spectacularly. 10 x 400 with 400 jogging rests as follows: 7:13 (162), 7:04 (161), 7:06 (165), 6:47 (167), 6:53 (169), 6:57 (170), 6:48 (174), 7:05 (175, 7:05 (175) and 7:04 (177). I was totally wasted at the end, for running at half marathon pace, just a little discouraging. Doing weights last night might have had something to do with it, and 78F is a lot warmer than 72F. Overall 10.00 miles in 1:26:27, 8:39 per mile, 152 bpm, 183 max.
I met a client today I hadn't seen in a while -- he lost 60 pounds doing Cross-Fit. Suddenly everybody is talking about it. There is a guy in my neighborhood who has his whole garage lit up at 5 in the morning, with 4 or 5 friends over every day. They are in there banging around, then every so often somebody pops out in a dead run out to the end of his street and back. I have to look every time I run past just so I don't get run over. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 77F, 96%, SSW 3 mph. 12.00 miles in 1:51:46, 9:19/mile, 142 bpm, 151 max, last mile 9:28 (150) | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.90 |
| 80F, 91%, S 5 mph, brutally hot. I got in very late from work last night and wasn't going to run at all, or at least a shortened version. Then I woke up right on schedule, old man style, and had nothing to do but go run -- turned out to be a good run. My Garmin battery was dead, so I ran by feel and tried to duplicate yesterday's route. But a loose dog guarding his cul de sac messed me up and I had guessed wrong on the makeup distance when I checked it on the computer. According to my phone, the whole run was 104 minutes, which puts me at 8:44/mile, plus or minus 5 seconds per mile for rounding error (my phone only reads out minutes). No heart rate reading, of course. I took the whole thing as an excuse to run the speed I wanted, but I didn't know until I finished how fast I was going. I thought it was a little faster than normal, but didn't really expect this much drop, so happy about that. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.60 |
| 77F, 100%, SSW 5 mph. Had to hurry today, Garmin out again, ran 6.60 miles at 8:47/mile plus or minus 10 seconds per mile. No heart rate data. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.06 |
| 80F, 98%, SW 4 mph, cloudy and trying to rain. Pretty oppressive out there. Wade is out of town, but I drove down to the Y anyway. Got there at 5:10 and ran 6 before the group started at 6:15, average about 9:20. Then the group took off, a lot of new runners. I ran with a regular, Helmut, just following his pace. He started out in the low 8s but we finished 9 with an 8:31 average. For the whole run, 15.06 miles in 2:13:29, 8:52 per mile, 150 bpm, 171 max. Fastest guy in the group ran it at a 7:50 pace, and it was the first time he had ever run that far. He has been running 20-30 miles per week since the start of the year and has lost 80 pounds, still over 200 pounds. I don't think I have ever seen a more dramatic example of running against body type. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 63.06 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 0.00 | 65.56 |
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