| 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 | | 55.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 66.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| 79F, 89% (DP 76F), calm. Out for a quick workout this morning. 2 wu (9:22, 8:40, 8:25), then 3 fast miles, 7:46 (162), 7:19 (172) and 7:01 (181), heart rates are at the end of each mile, not averages. Was glad to see the 7:01 after last week's average running.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
| 77F, 95% (DP 76F), WSW 1 mph. LLHR this morning, 7.5 miles at 11:00 pace. Then a full stretching and weight session, which felt good.
PM: 5 downhill on TM, about 8:30 pace, starting to get ready for a half marathon in the first week of October, which is downhill at altitude. Can't do anything about the altitude.
We hit 105F this afternoon, then a storm rolled in and the temperature dropped to 82F in about a half hour. Raining again now, it has been a while and it is welcome.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 77F, 95% (DP 75F), calm. It rained last night, so humidity was high at ground level - the steam effect - which adds an extra layer of misery over and above the metrics that show up in humidity and dew point measurements. Today was a scheduled workout. I was pretty beat up from weights and a second running session yesterday, so I figured I would warm up for 5 miles then do repeats. Repeats haven't gone all that well lately, which is probably why I should do them more, but I wasn't in the mood and I changed my mind on the fly. After 2 miles warmup (9:23, 8:37), I eased into an 8-mile tempo run: 7:56, 7:55, 7:45, 7:36, 7:40, 7:36, 7:39, 7:43. Overall 10.0 miles at 7:59/mile. Heart rate maxed out at 177, so things were under control. Pretty happy with this run, but I really hope the high-dew point workouts translate in to some dramatic improvements when I get to October. It does seem, though, like my one week on, one off plan for workouts this summer is working OK, on the fast side. I'm developing some stamina at higher heart rates, which is what I need for a strong HM attempt. However, my LLHR runs have slowed down throughout the summer, though not dramatically -- I think base running needs to be more consistent and uninterrupted than what I have been doing.
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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 |
| On the TM at the gym, Got up and it was 82F outside, two hours before sunrise, with lightning on the horizon, so I immediately threw in the towell. 10.0 starting at 10:00 pace down to 7:40 pace. Finished with a desultory weight session.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 79F, 83% (DP 74F), no measured wind. Kind of in a hurry, had to get downtown for a 7:30 breakfast, so did 6 LLHR, 120 bpm average, 11:00/mile. Intended to do some TM work later on but it never happened.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 76F, 90% (DP 73F), calm. Intended to do only 10 or 15, but was feeling good and pushed through to the standard long-run distance. 20.0 miles in 2:49:29, 8:28/mile, 151 bpm average heart rate, 167 max. Legs were kind of sore and choppy, but heart rate stayed quite low throughout. The lower dew point seemed to help a lot.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 55.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 | 0.00 | 66.00 |
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