| Location: Springtown,TX,USA Member Since: Feb 02, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: Firsts:
- First marathon - White Rock, Dallas, December 2005 (4:01)
- First BQ - St George, 2007 (3:20)
- First Boston - 2008 (3:30)
- 1st Place Clydesdale - Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon - 4/2007
- 1st Place Ultracentric 6-Hour Champ 2007 - 38.75 miles
- 1st Time Leading Pace Group, Cowtown '09 (3:39:41)
- 1st Place Overall, Porcupine Promenade 5K (20:10) - 4/2011
- 1st Trail Race. Grasslands Half Marathon. 1st Overall Masters (1:53) - 3/2013
- Leadville LT100 MTB '16 - on a mountain bike, but the toughest challenge, so far!
Marathons Run (27):
- Dallas White Rock ('05, '07,'09,'14)
- Chicago ('06, '08)
- OK City Memorial ('07)
- St George ('07,'09,'11)
- Waco Miracle Match ('07)
- Ft Worth, Cowtown ('08, '09,'10,'11,'12,'13,'15**)
- Boston ('08 '09*, '10, '13)
- Park City ('08)
- San Antonio Rock 'n Roll ('08)
- Steamboat ('09)
- Utah Valley ('10)
- Houston ('12)
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* - PR
Ultras (3):
- Ultracentric 6-Hours ('07 - 38.75 mi)
- El Scorcho 50K, Ft Worth (('08, '09)
PRs:
- 5K - 19:27 (6/2008)
- 10K - 41:49 (5/2008)
- 15K - 1:04:14 (9/2011)
- Half Marathon - 1:33:12 (1/2011)
- Marathon - 3:19:47 (Boston 4/2009)
- 50K - 4:35:53 (7/2008)
Short-Term Running Goals: Keep injury-free.
2016 Races
Ft Worth Cowtown Half Marathon Long-Term Running Goals: Be age-group competitive for many years!
Have fun running!
Make some great friends along the way! Personal: Married to the same wonderful woman since March 1988. 3 adorable kids.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 18.82 | 2.00 | 20.82 |
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| Asic Speedstar 3 Miles: 16.82 |
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Rest Day. Went for a bike ride with the boys. PC: 25-23-21-21-26 Pushups not getting much easier,though I think I could beat my initial max test of 30 without any problem. I hope I don't get too buff! :-)
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 |
| Treadmill Intervals at work. Got the HR up today. | Speed | Time | BPM | | | 9.0 | 4:00 | 150 | | | 9.5 | 5:20 | 157 | | | 10.0 | 3:30 | 163 | | 10.0 - 12.1
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Been coffee-free now since last Friday (major caffeine withdrawl headaches on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday I was OK). I'm trying different things to get my BP in check without relying on medication. I'm monitoring it closely. I'm not so sure I really trust BP machines much..they seem to fluctuate quite a bit in just a few minutes. I took BP twice right before lunch -- 156/84, then immediately followed by a 142/74. The first one scared me a bit, but the second one is more "normal" for me.
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Tuesdays have been turning into rest days lately. Not intentionally, but just not finding the time to run.
I did coach 5 and 6 year olds soccer practice. We scrimmaged for about 30 minutes, that's got to count for something, right?
PC: 30-25-20-24-18 fizzled at the end. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.82 | 0.00 | 3.82 |
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Another run with Eric at lunch. It was about 75 and sunny. A little warm, but I'll take it. Light breeze. Felt great. Started slow (8:10) and finished with a 7:00 last mile. Tomorrow I'll go for about an 8 miler..I hope.
10 days 'til Cowtown. Worked on my pace spreadsheet last night for a few hours. Taking elevation and my splits from last year into consideration to figure out the best way to finish in 3:40:00 exactly...won't that be cool if I can hit it on the nose...with my whole group intact?! |
| Asic Speedstar 3 Miles: 3.82 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| I ran alone today after work. I didn't get started until 6:00pm and it was getting dark so I did the 1 mile loop around the Motorola campus. It's a nice loop and exactly 1 mile. It has a nice drop of about 60 feet followed by a climb of 60 feet, and about 3/4 miles is very flat. It was a good night to practice my marathon pacing pace (8:24).
| Mile | Pace | 1 | 8:00
| | 2 | 8:13 | | 3 | 8:32 | | 4 | 8:26 | | 5 | 8:29 | | 6 | 8:31 | | 7 | 8:13 | | 8 | 8:33 |
I averaged 8:23 -- right on average, but my standard deviation is a bit wide. I only looked at my watch after each mile and tried to adjust accordingly. Not bad. I'm really set on trying to hit the 3:40:00 on the button in less than 9 days at Cowtown. Today's food (I'm going to start tracking my intake. It might make me think twice about eating too much unhealthy stuff): Breakfast: 2 bowls of frosted mini wheats w/ 1% milk. 8 oz of OJ Lunch: Fajitas and all the fixin's at Joe T Garcia's in Ft Worth. 2 glasses unsweet iced tea. Dinner: Leftover Rice-A-Roni with chicken added. 1 birthday cupcake with chocolate frosting. A dozen grapes. 2 small chocolate hearts from Valentine's Day. 2 glasses 1% milk. Going to do Pushups now...woohoo.
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| Asic Speedstar 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Was planning to run 6.2 miles with a few friends after work. About mid-way through I needed to take "pit stop" (I'm not sure if it was the chicken pesto past from lunch, or the mid-afternoon Coke and Milkyway bar...). But, I had to stop. Ended up taking a short-cut back and finished the last couple hundred yards with my buddies.
AP: 7:40 (if you don't count the break)
Breakfast: 2 bowls of shredded wheat with 1% milk. 8 oz OJ. Had a bagel w/ cream cheese when I got to work (Friday's the managers supply donuts or bagels for us common workers)
Lunch: Chicken Pesto Pasta. Slice of bread. Water.
Snack: Milkyway and Coke
Dinner: McD's 10-piece chicken nugget, fries, and chocolate shake
(so much for the idea that posting my food intake would somehow curb my bad eating habbits..I'll do better next week -- race week) |
| Asic Speedstar 3 Miles: 5.00 |
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Rest day. My son, Christian's 5th birthday. For his special birthday breakfast he wanted chocolate donuts with sprinkles. Who was I to argue.
PC: Did 50 straight. 1 set. This is 20 more than my original max-out a few weeks ago. I might have been able to pump out a few more if I had to.
Bfast: 1 cinnamon roll, 1 cup coffee (I made it almost a whole week, but my in-laws are visiting and they made coffee and I figured, one cup wouldn't raise the BP much)
Lunch: Grilled chicken breast, grapes, some cheetohs. Ice water.
Dinner: Roast beef, mushroom gravy, 3 popovers, mashed cauliflower. 1 can ginger ale. 2 birthday cupcakes.
Wow..that's a lot of food for one day. I'll be a Clydesdale again in no time.
BP 124/73, HR 41 (sitting in bed, blogging my running buddies) | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 18.82 | 2.00 | 20.82 |
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| Asic Speedstar 3 Miles: 16.82 |
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