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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

Sat, Nov 17, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
15.26	0.00	0.00	0.00	15.26

36F, 100%, calm and clear. Took yesterday off and met Wade and the group at the Y at 5:45. Weather was great and everybody was in a festive mood. They were on me real bad about my Amazon jungle Jingas, and for complaining about a 3:41. I stopped at McDonalds for a GI break and instead of running on everybody waited. When I got out they were all loudly complaining about the wait and telling me to hurry up if I ever wanted to get faster.

We turned around at 7.5 when my knee started to bother me. Until then we had an 8:30 - 8:45 pace going. I think the twinge must be a leftover from the marathon, I haven't had knee issues for at least 3 years now. It hung around for a while then gradually eased up toward the end, but we slowed down dramatically. 15.26 miles in 2:21:54, 9:18/mile, so not a good run. The way it works right now I feel good to start but have no back-end strength. I'll try to get back into decent mileage next week but I'll try to keep it slow for a while. Wade's heart rate this morning was 16 bpm lower than mine. He took off on the last mile and ran 7:20, he is very much a cold-weather runner.

I feel like I need miles. In no race this year have I felt slow. 7:30's at Richmond were almost effortless for the first 6 or 7 miles. The last 8 weeks before my taper were 59, 63, 83, 70, 60, 69, 50 and 55 miles, which seems not high enough. Oddly enough though, I checked it against previous years and I was actually higher for this time of year than I was then, even though I had significantly more miles overall in the last two years than I will get this year. It is possible that I can still PR, but I am going to have to step up my game.

Comments

From Dan on Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 16:06:49 from 24.209.83.20

Odd how running is. Log tons of miles and sometimes you run faster with less. Good run today.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:36:29 from 155.219.241.11

Probably can't expect too much 1 week after a race. For me anyway, it's tough to make any assessments until at least a month inbetween me and my last marathon.

Sounds like you have a pretty good bunch of people to run with though.

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