| 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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| 78F, 96% (78 DP) and calm. Still not a grown-up runner, even though I have been doing this for over 6 years now. Felt the need to try a re-do from Saturday. Succeeded just fine, but probably undermined my workouts for the entire week as a result. 20.00 miles in 3:01:37, 9:05/mile, 157 bpm, 176 max, pretty even pace throughout. Nothing over 9:09 and only a couple under 9:00. Despite the childish nature of this workout, there was nevertheless a bit of grim satisfaction to be had. 78 DP at sea level is sky-high and I did 20 in it at a fair pace, within 3 minutes of BQ.
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| 76F, 97% (76 DP), calm. I was convinced that any run I could get in today would be a disaster, could barely walk when I fell out of bed because my right foot always gets stiff, more so on harder runs like yesterday, from which I usually take a day off. But after stumbling around a while the foot felt more normal so I headed out at 4:40 a.m., intending to only do 6, all LLHR of course. The first mile came in at 12:12, which surprised me. Averaged 11:37 for the run and did 10 instead of 6, 120 bpm average heart rate, felt absolutely fine, almost like I hadn't run at all yesterday. I have no explanation, it was a slightly cooler but not enough to really make any difference. Indulging in a long run yesterday felt like robbing the bank; this morning felt like a clean getaway. Also had a good stretching and weight session afterwards.
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| 76F, 98% (75 DP) and calm. No running on Wednesday and Thursday due to work pressures. Felt great going out the door but heart rate was high today compared to Tuesday. 10.00 miles in 2:03:30, 12:21/mile, 120 bpm. No available explanation. Off to stretching and weights.
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| 79F, 94% (77 DP), SSW 4 mph. Running symptoms of some sort, slept in fits and starts all night and decided in the middle of the night not to go 20. Finally got out the door at 6:00 a.m. for a quick 10. Heart rate standing at my front door was in the mid70s instead of low 60s. I then sat down to see how low I could make it go and 64 bpm was the bottom, so 10-12 bpm higher than normal resting start, which explains what was going on yesterday. So I just ran whatever speed felt good, stayed under 150 bpm for the first half and under 160 bpm for the second half. 10.00 miles in 1:32:53, 9:17/mile, a bit quicker than I would have predicted. Felt better when I was done, should be back to normal by Monday.
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