| 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 | | 69.13 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 1.00 | 78.13 |
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| 51F, 97%, NW calm breeze. Got out early and started ticking them off. Met Wade at about mile 9 for 5, then kept going until 20. 8:28 average, HR at the end was 148, 150 max. Good run but a little bit unrecovered from Saturday. Feel tired tonight.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 50F, NNE 3 mph and raining. Cold rain coming out of the north this morning. And stiff and sore from running long yesterday. Took a while to get going and never got going very well. 6.0 in 49:24, 8:14/mile, 145 bpm, 157 max.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.13 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.13 |
| 50F, 92%, NNE calm breeze. Tried to do a workout this morning with mixed results. 1 wu @ 8:51, then 3 tempo miles: 7:37, 7:22 and 7:12 (HRmax 169), then met Wade for about 4 more. Got a cramp in my left calf right after mile 7 but it gradually receded and seems OK. Finished with abbreviated session of stretching and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 41F, 91%, NE calm breeze, clear skies. LLHR recovery run, 8 at 10:19/mile, 120 bpm average, good run considering a workout and weights yesterday. My calf has mostly healed, so it must have been cramps instead of muscle strain.
Wade and I were talking about becoming recreational runners, kind of funny when you think about how slow we already are. PRs are starting to get harder for him as well, even though he is 8 years behind me. I have two marathons coming up, Dubai and Boston, where I will be trying for a PR. That will make 19. Boston 2017 makes 20 and I will be running that one slow, with siblings if everything happens as planned. So basically no more marathon training cycles after the upcoming April. If I can make that stick.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 6.00 |
| 41F, 95%, calm wind NE, clear. Short, hard workout this morning. Ran 1 wu, 8:42, then 3 hard: 7:25 (153), 7:23 (157), 6:41 (166), HRmax 173. First time I have run sub-7 on a flat course in a long time, wasn't sure I could still do it. Stride length on the last one was 1.28 meters, which is the longest I have measured; apparently there is another gear up there, assuming it is repeatable. 2 cd at 8:22, 8:10, total 6 at 7:47/mile. Stretching and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 30.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 30.00 |
| 38F, 95%, ENE calm breeze, clear skies. Woke up extremely early, probably anxious about the run, since I have failed twice already to reach 30 on this training cycle. If I couldn't do it in this weather I knew I had a lot of work left to do to get ready for the next race. Out the door slightly after 3:00, met Wade at 5:30 with 16+ under my belt. He was running a half marathon and had 2+ already, so we ran about 11 together, then I finished up running back to my house. Was pretty cold for most of the run; probably needed long pants but I wasn't about to try 30 in long pants.
The goal was 8:30/mile started well, first mile at 8:30, down to 8:16 for mile 4, felt like I could break 8:20 whenever I wanted. Then after mile 10 my heart rate went up and I started running splits over 8:35, my cumulative average climbed up to 8:26 by mile 16. Wade got me going faster though. We split mile 21 at 8:04 at which point we consciously slowed down. I hit the marathon at 3:39:08. Wade finished his half at a 7:19 pace for the last mile, I drug in to his house, got a drink of water and ran the last 2.5 solo. Legs felt very stiff when I started running again, but I still maintained an 8:10 pace through the end and finished with an overall average of 8:21/mile, compared to a best of 8:33 on my last training cycle.. Average heart rate 149 bpm, broke 150 at mile 18. HRmax 161. Good run, especially after doing a workout and a fairly vigorous weight session yesterday. Hopefully I didn't cannibalize next week's workouts.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 69.13 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 1.00 | 78.13 |
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