| 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 | | 46.00 | 7.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.02 |
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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 |
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43F, 100% and calm. 10.00 miles in 1:28:05, 8:49mile., 148 bpm. | | Add Comment |
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| 50F, 100% and calm. 10.00 miles in 1:25:19, 8:31/mile, 153 bpm. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nada, work pressures today. | | Add Comment |
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GE Run Through the Woods (5.02 Miles) 00:39:22, Place in age division: 12 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.00 | 5.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.02 |
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About 55F, we left the house at 6:45 to drive to the Woodlands for an 8:15 start. Misjudged the parking place badly and ended up running a mile to pick up our packets. A short trip through the POP and we were lined up for the start. I was pacing my daughter Jennifer who delivered a baby 4-1/2 months ago. She thought she could do 8 flat, I thought she could do better. We started out at about that pace, but the last mile was low 7:20s and she finished with a 7:46 average. She has a long stride that eats up the ground. When she turned it on into the finish I couldn't keep up. My two sons also ran the 3-mile version and did fine. Wade and Linda were also out there, along with various others. Good morning and the run felt just right.
Here is a photo of the two of us. (Ignore the interloper at the front, he didn't know to get out of the way.) We saw the camera just in time and managed to force smiles.
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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 |
| 55F, 100% and calm. Getting ready to rain today, but the weather held. Managed to eke out 10 miles but my legs didn't feel too great -- takes a long time to get that marathon out of the legs. 8:49 pace. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| 50F, 48%, NNW 8 mph. We had rain come through yesterday and it cleared everything out. This morning was cold and windy. The website said 50F, but I think it was actually low 40s. I felt cold throughout the run. Got to the Y at 4:45 and ran 4 miles before meeting up with the group at 5:30. They were running 13. Wade had run from his house and alreay had 7, this is one of his 2 20-milers getting ready for the Kingwood Marathon on January 1. I had problems holding any kind of a pace today. Anytime I hit 9 flat I considered it a hard mile, it was kind of discouraging. Then coming in the last 4 miles it was like the rust fell off and I got my legs back. So the last two I took off, in a manner of speaking, 8:00 and 7:49. The whole run was 2:32:46, average 8:59/mile, 145 bpm but 162 and 168 on the last two. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 46.00 | 7.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.02 |
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