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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

Mon, Feb 01, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.05

38F, 10.05 miles in 2:04:24, 12:23 average pace, low heart rate.

I worked harder on Saturday than I thought, took a while to get going this morning and never got going very fast, although the kinks eventually worked themselves out. My speed is still slow.

My sister pointed out something over the weekend, which is that if one's speed at the same heart rate continues to deteriorate, that is probably a sign of overtraining. It seems obvious when I think about it, and a blessing, actually, because it might give one the ability to back off soon enough to avoid injury. I can't think of another explanation for why speed at the same heart rate would decrease consistently over 7-10 days. This is something I will be watching closely this week.

Shoulder is still pretty painful from my fall 10 days ago, but otherwise no remaining effects.

Comments

From Mack on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 18:33:37 from 71.111.182.118

Glad to hear your shoulder is on the mend!

Just curious, why do you run 10.05 instead of an even 10?

From SlowJoe on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:28:09 from 71.21.119.111

I would think after blazing through a HM your pulse would be up a few days, but all my running knowledge comes from Google searches so maybe I'm not the best source.

Even though I'm trying to get up to high mileage myself, sometimes I wonder if all the 60-70 miles/week stuff is necessary for us mere mortals. If I run for the exact same amount of time and intensity as Sasha, for example, I might run 7 miles where he runs 10. But aren't we getting the exact same workout? Who knows, just something I've been wondering about as I build up my own mileage...

From flatlander on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:08:13 from 76.31.26.153

Mack, I have quit trying to hit an exact distance or an exact time, I end up running circles in my cul de sac looking dumb. But sometimes it comes out the same anyway, only because it is the same route.

Slow, I think that running hard on Saturday definitely makes for a rocky Monday, at least that has been my experience. I just didn't expect it to be quite as slow as it was, and combined with several slow days last week I was starting to worry that I was getting signals. Today went better, so possibly that little episode is behind me. As far as workout intensity, I agree with you. I decided to just do what I could with the time I have. Right now that is about 2 hours a day, which comes out to a little more than 10 miles at low heart rate. I think some might say I should not run them all slow, but right now I am just trying to maintain the routine. I'll add speed as my legs get stronger, but I am somewhat conflicted -- the slow stuff seems to have been doing me a lot of good. So I have some things to think about.

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