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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.1310.005.000.0027.13
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.006.000.000.006.00

71F, 94% (69 DP) and calm.  Getting hotter again for a few days.  Time constrained this morning, so ran 6 at GMP:  8:46 (1:37), 7:53 (150), 7:46 (156), 7:43 (161), 7:29 (167) and 7:18 (173), overall 46:54, 7:49/mile, 156 bpm average, 177 max.  Don't really have much context for this run at this DP, but in any event I still had some of Saturday left in my legs so good to cut it short.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.130.000.000.0010.13

75F, 96% and calm.  Getting very warm, not running much this week because I have a conference room full of people at work to babysit.  Not missing running in the mid-summer temperatures though.  Today was 10.13 miles in 1:31:01, 8:59/mile. 147 bpm average, 157 max.  Met Wade for about half of the run.  He is headed back to Wyoming to shut down for the winter then back here for 10 for Texas on October 11.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.004.005.000.0011.00

60F, 78%, NNE 7 mph (wind chill 56F).  Not that much warmer than St. George -- very nice this morning, slept in late, have been doing almost no running this week because of a deal at work that went bad.  Flying to Asia on Sunday night so won't get much done next week either.  Then I will try to run a 10-mile race on Saturday. This is why I am not a good runner.

Today was a 10-mile progression run:  9:14 (134), 8:29 (143), 7:50 (158), 7:40 (160), 7:36 (163) 7:24 (165), 7:30 (168), 7:19 (171), 7:26 (173) and 7:17 (177).  Average 159 bpm, max 180.  Overall 10.00 miles in 1:17:43, 7:46/mile.  Cooled down one mile with the household pet unit.

Mile 6 was a good one, in a zone and it just kind of happened without a lot of effort.  I could almost see myself doing a marathon at that pace if I was in better shape, but it will probably never happen.  Just 3 miles later (mile 9) my heart rate was up 8 bpm at the same pace.  

Good luck to all the SGM runners this morning.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.1310.005.000.0027.13
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