| 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 | | 74.20 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.20 |
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| 58F, 93%, S 5 mph. 10.0 at LLHR, 12:19/mile, have lost conditioning after recent bout with cold or flu.
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| 57F, 93%, N 6 mph. Repeated yesterday's run, 10 at 12:30/mile, LLHR again. Unbelievably slow. I remember the last time I got really sick was before Boston 2011, right after I ran my two half-marathon PRs. Missed Boston because of it and have never gotten back to that level and I'm wondering if it takes something out of me that is difficult to get back.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 43F (37F WC), 65%, NW 12 mph. Joined Wade for a few miles this morning. Whole body was aching, especially my legs, and I wasn't up for another LLHR run. Did 10 at 8:52/mile, including the last one at 8:02. Average HR was 149 bpm, not too far off where it should be. Cold and blustery out, but I overdressed and was actually too warm.
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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 |
| 34F, 96%, calm and clear. Good running weather, a little too cold for top speed but really just fine. We are doing Christmas tonight at my house (visitors coming in later in the day), so there was plenty of time this morning to go long. Weather is iffy the rest of the week anyway.
Went 20 in 2:56:48, 8:50/mile, 151 bpm, 171 max. It was hard to get through this run, legs got tired after 12 and mentally it has been a while since I ran this far. Personal misery aside, it was fun watching the neighborhood wake up to their Christmas. Managed to get done before the new mopeds and dirt bikes came out.
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| 61F, 81%, SSE 5 mph. Cloudy with weather moving in. 10 miles in 1:28:02, 8:48/mile, 152 bpm, 159 max. Mile on mile, about 10 bpm higher than the first part of yesteray's run, hard to run well after doing 20 the day before. But legs feel like they are slowly getting back into shape, cardio will follow.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.20 |
| 70F, 91% S 5 mph, drizzling a little but not too bad. Ran 15.2 miles in 2:15:56, 8:57/mile, 152 bpm,160 max. Kind of an easy run that got less easy at the end in the heat. Hard to believe it was 34F two days ago, but that's what you get around here. Still on pace to make 2000 for the year.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 74.20 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.20 |
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