| 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 | | 70.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.58 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.13 |
| 53F, 86% and calm. Got out early, still in Houston, ran 10.13 miles in 1:44:17, average pace 10:17 per mile, not a good run, probably too little sleep. My wife was up when I got back, demanding to know what I thought I was doing, good question. Then caught a 7:20 flight to Chicago and was in meetings by 10:00, so the week was off to a fast start even though I ran slow. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Treadmill miles only this morning, schedule is very heavy. 6 miles at 10-minute pace at the hotel. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| More treadmill stuff, but less time this morning, I did the first mile at 6 mph and ramped up 0.5 mph each mile, last mile was 8.5 mph (7:03). It wasn't easy, but my legs felt strong, was feeling pretty happy all day about this progression run, maybe the long slow miles are actually going to have a payoff. Got back to Houston late at night but stayed up even later looking at my new heart rate books that came in. | | Add Comment |
| | 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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I went out early this morning and it was raining with thunder, so I slunk back inside and drove meekly to work. Finally got on the TM tonight and finished up 10 just now. It has been a tough week, family is starting to arrive for Christmas, everybody will be here by tomorrow night, the house will be rockin'. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 18.36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.36 |
| 47F, 83%, NNW 8 mph. Good running weather but not a good run. Clint thinks I had fatigue left in my legs from running 10 late Thursday night and he is probably right. Beats some of the apocalyptic diagnoses I came up with. I ran 18.36 LHR miles in 3:14:35, average pace 10:35 per mile, 131 bpm. Each mile was slower than the previous one, starting in the low 10s with the last at 11:01. Pretty discouraging but I finished it and went to work. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.09 |
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46F, 85%, NNE 16 mph. Didn't want to go out this morning, but finally drug myself out at 5:45 after promising myself I would quit at 10 if I still wasn't feeling it. The plan today was to run 20 at my old BQ pace, just didn't know if I had it in me after yesterday's drag-a-thon. Ran the first one in 9:23, then 8:36 and 8:20, so I was in the zone, then miraculously ran into Dave and Keith from the weekend running group. They were already in mile 11 of a 20-miler, so I invited myself to run with them. Keith stopped for a bathroom break and I left Dave in his neighborhood at mile 10, average pace at that point was 8:42 and it was a huge boost having company for the first 10. I picked it up a little on the way back, trying not to run too hard, and ended up with an 8:35 average, exactly 2 minutes per mile faster than yesterday. Overall 20.09 miles in 2:52:31. I was no less tired than yesterday, running this speed exercises a different system than LHR runs, that's for sure.
It was great running weather, lots of runners out and all in a good mood. I was in an even better mood because they were all slower than me -- is that proper?
Merry Christmas all you great bloggers! | | Comments(11) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 70.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.58 |
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