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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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54F (DP 41F), calm and dry. Perfect weather. Set my alarm for 3:30 and was out the door at 3:49. Ran 11.8, mostly in my neighborhood, then ending up at Wade's house; ran another 11 with him; then 2.2 back to my neighborhood. Felt reasonably good throughout, told Wade at mile 15 that I was probably going to make the full 25 goal, but promised him I wouldn't take a step further, and I didn't.

First split over 150 bpm was mile 16. At first I thought it was an improvement over my last long long run, March 28; but upon checking I see that made it through 23 that day before breaking 150. Weather on the two days was almost identical, but overall pace then was 8:33 and it was 8:25 today. At today's pace I would have finished the marathon in 3:39:01 compared to an actual marathon time of 3:44:37 on March 28. Not a completely equivalent run, though, because the last 4 were fastest on that one. Last split today was 8:00. Average HR 149, max 164. 3:30:21 total running time. So today was good for the first long long run of this training cycle. Mentally it was OK, probably some lingering benefit from last spring. More importantly, my legs feel like they survived it well enough -- I think I will be ready on Monday to run a workout.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 09:03:11 from 107.77.66.56

Basically a 3:39 marathon and a workout 2 days later...if it were anyone else, then no, but something tells me no problem for you - nice work yesterday.

From Jason D on Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:23:22 from 72.241.41.142

I see the long long runs are picking up again. I'm thinking of 31 miles this year on my birthday, but we'll see how far I get.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From flatlander on Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:06:02 from 76.31.29.220

You too Jason. When is your birthday? I'll dedicate a mile to you that morning.

From Jason D on Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:10:21 from 72.241.41.142

It's still about two months away. Jan 24. I was going to do the Rocky 50k but it's Decenber 5 and too close to a marathon for me even if it's just to finish.

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