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Bizz Johnson Half Marathon

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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
10.9613.111.240.0025.31
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.200.000.000.006.20

10K on the TM at a Red Sea resort.  Holiday in Egypt so our hosts brought us out here.  It is an "enhanced security zone", so hard to tell exactly where we were, but the water is blue and they assured us it is the Red Sea.  It was a progression run, finished at about 13.5 km/hr, not super fast but OK.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.760.001.240.006.00

68F.  Back in Houston before heading out to the race tomorrow.  Quick 6, including 2 x 1K at about 7:15 pace, just to get a little bit of blood flowing in my legs.  Pretty bad finish to the training cycle.  Overall 8:18 pace.

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Race: Bizz Johnson Half Marathon (13.11 Miles) 01:38:54, Place overall: 14, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0013.110.000.0013.11

45F to start, 60F to finish.  Difficult race in Susanville, California, my wife's home town.  Wade came out here to run it with me, then we are going to climb a couple of mountains.  Got bussed to the start at 5200'.  Wade did much better, as he has been running at 6000 to 7000 feet all summer.  Long downhill run, but it was trail so spent a lot of time dodging rocks.  A few bridges and tunnels as well.  Downhill was definitely faster, but not enough to make up for the other factors.  My lungs burned the first three miles, then dead legs, bonk-style, the last three miles.  Averaged under 7:20 for the first 8 or 9, then fell off considerably.  Had a hard time breaking 8 toward the end.  Not a good day, but that's the way it goes.

Here we are, happy to be done:

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.9613.111.240.0025.31
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