| 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 | | 23.33 | 12.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 37.33 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
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75F, clear and calm. Ran this morning in Buenos Aires, left the hotel at 5:30 which was 2:30 by my body clock, but it was OK. I found my way down to the dock area and managed to find one long esplanade about a mile and a half long where I could get some speed going. It took about 30 minutes for the Garmin to get used to being in a new place, so I don't have any good data, but some of my splits were in the low 8s, the rest were fairly slow picking my way, waiting for stoplights, etc. A dog found me. He was waiting like he knew I was going to be there, must have picked it up off some network they have. We negotiated a treaty. I got lost trying to find the hotel, almost late for my meeting. Kind of an interesting situation because I don't speak a word of Spanish.
I brought all my running stuff except for the most essential thing, my hat. I think this is the first run I have ever done without a hat, but nobody knew it. Our deal took me all the way through the night on Monday night, so no running on Tuesday. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.01 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 8.01 |
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65F, drizzly and foggy. The plane came in from Argentina at 6:30 this morning, made it back to the house and went straight out for a run, 8.01 miles in 1:01:36, average pace 7:42 per mile, flat shoes. Ran one warmup mile (9:10) then launched right into it, five at GMP, 7:50 (157), 7:43 (162), 7:44 (163), 7:37 (164), 7:38 (166), then accelerated to a 10K pace for the last two, 7:02 (175) and 6:54 (183). That last mile was hard, even though I ran around a 6:30 mile a few weeks ago. Maybe I am slowing down, but it was quite warm so I'm blaming that.
This afternoon I drove to San Marcos and we all had dinner at a steakhouse where my daughter was the waitress. (Let's just say she got an OK tip.) Then I drove home and stayed up working until 2:00, got a little bit of sleep and was up again. I am measuring total sleep this week in single digits, hopefully this slows down soon. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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55F. Woke up at 6:30 and had to be on a call by 8, so only had time for a few miles. Good thing I am tapering this week, my schedule is a mess. Was going to run it all easy, then decided to run the last two at GMP. I had to go totally by feel, because I ran my Garmin down yesterday. Taking it off the charger this morning it wouldn't go on. I got online just now and found out you have to press "mode" and "reset" together, then turn it on, as simple as that, so I am set for tomorrow but again I don't have any data for this morning. At this point I can run GMP without the Garmin and finish a marathon pretty close to my goal because I know how it feels, but I need the Garmin to monitor my heart rate. I am not good enough to pace myself correctly for a full marathon. I would go either too slow or too fast.
Because of forgetting to turn my Garmin off, it measured my pace all the way to my daughter's restaurant and back, exactly 222 miles. I had a lot of sub-one minute miles in there. I think automobiles are better transportation than legs. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.30 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.30 |
| 49F, 66% humidity, wind E 11 mph, cloudy and blustery. This turned out to be perfect running weather. My daughter and her family are in town so she ran with me today. Our speeds are very similar now, although she is still a little leery (unnecessarily) of some of my faster miles. We agreed to go my GMP as long as she could hang with me and I promised not to take it too fast. After two warmup miles (10:37 and 9:58), we took off. I told her very confidently on the first mile that we were only going about an 8:15 pace, I'm a pro and I know these things, but we would get warmed up and make it up on the later splits. Well, I was pretty close, 7:36. She was pretty ticked, but glad to slow down a little. Rest of the splits were 8:03, 8:01, 8:07 (146), 8:05 (147), then I told her to go as fast as she wanted for the last mile and she did 7:29 (157), overall pace 7:54, so this was quite an improvement for her. For me it was also a good run. I didn't get a true heart rate reading until the last 3 miles, but it was low, which is good news -- I would have been able to do my marathon at goal pace this morning, it felt sustainable. 0.3 cooldown, overall 8.30 miles in 1:10:47, 8:32 per mile. Gotta go, time to start my Christmas shopping. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.52 |
| 39F, 55% humidity wind N 13-22 mph, 31 wind chill, on the way down to 27F tonight. Ran late this afternoon with my daughter, insisted on a slow run. We went 8.52 miles in 1:22:30, average pace 9:41 per mile, regular shoes and no heart rate monitor. The sun went down toward the end of the run and it got cold, plus I never got going that well because I was heavy with Christmas dinner. But for Christmas this was an OK run. One more week of tapering. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 23.33 | 12.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 37.33 |
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