| 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 | | 46.15 | 5.00 | 8.10 | 0.00 | 59.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.70 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.70 |
| 66F, 95% (DP 65F), NNE and calm. Ran one warmup, 8:32, then 3 as hard as I could, 7:37, 7:17 and 7:10, got the Monday slows, not sure if I will ever break 7 on a mile again. Then met Wade and ran two more "cooldown" miles, which he ran at 7:44 and 7:42, then rested a bit and ran 2 more actual cooldown splits, 8:42 and 8:39. Finished with stretching and weights.
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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 |
| 76F, 91% (DP 73F), SE to SW, 8-15 mph. Weather getting ready to move in, but it should be gone by tomorrow and cool again. There is still a lot of heat left in the gulf, because temperatures soar whenever the weather comes in from that direction.
Recovery run during a break in the weather, 6.0 in 51:59, 8:39/mile. Don't have any heart rate data right now, sensor isn't working. Hopefully just a battery.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.25 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| 52F, 98% (DP 51F), calm and clear. Watch is all messed up, it told me 7:33 for the first mile. I ran harder the second mile and came in at 8:03, which puts the first mile at 8:19. I re-set it at what I knew was the 2-mile mark, by then I was running hard, though there was never a time in this run where I really took off, just gradually sped up. So I ran a couple in the 7:40 to 7:45 range, then 7:31 and 7:11, then cooled down at about an 8:20 overall pace. Average pace for the run was 7:57, would have thought it would be faster given the good weather and a nice recovery run yesterday. Maybe it was, I had no metrics out there today that felt reliable. Finished with stretching and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 |
| 49F, 97% (DP 48F), calm. Amazing to run in the 70s and the 40s the same week. Got to bed early and woke up early but rested. 9.2 miles, 10:18/mile, 122 bpm, a LLHR PR, previous best was 10:19. I was at 10:22 at 6 miles, so it was a good run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 6.10 |
| 51F, 95% (DP 50F), calm. Ran a warmup, 8:46, then 5 x 1K, but my watch measured the first one long. Not sure what is going on with it, but I think when I turn it on inside it gets very confused and takes a while outside to sort itself out. Splits on the watch showed 8:04 (151), 7:33 (154), 7:28 (156), 7:17 (161) and 7:06 (166). HRmax was 172. Finished with stretching and weights.
Long again tomorrow, not sure what the weather is going to be like, but right now it looks warm and wet. Whatever.
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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 |
| 64F, 89%, (DP 61F), calm, then gusty and raining off and on. Intended to go further than this, but I'm not going to run slower than 8:30 and I started having a hard time holding that pace, so I called it a day at standard long run length. Mainly due to working hard yesterday and lacking sleep, plus the temperature was certainly not ideal this morning. 2:49:59 total time, 8:30/mile, 146 bpm average, 158 max, but that was only because I sped up the last 2 miles to get the overall time I wanted. Until then I was holding steady at 151 in the latter miles. Right now, it is a leg thing, not a heart rate thing.
There are several running groups in the area and they all converged on my neighborhood this morning. People are figuring out that with streetlights, wide streets and cautious drivers, this is a good place to run. Not a lot of trails around here. It was interesting seeing some of the groups moving very slowly, lots of runners carrying three or four bottles of various liquid concoctions. But it seems to be a quiet revolution taking place. People everywhere, all shapes and sizes, are starting to understand the benefits of running, and that it doesn't matter what speed you are running or how much gear you want to haul around. Didn't see any old guys though, I seem to have that category to myself.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 46.15 | 5.00 | 8.10 | 0.00 | 59.25 |
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