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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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Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.002.900.004.90

4.90 miles in 51:13, 10:27 average pace, 47F, average heart rate 170 bpm.  It was another cold morning, just like Monday and 25 degrees cooler than yesterday.  Again, my heart rate was 162 before I got out of my cul de sac and it went as high as 204 during the run.  No way could that possibly be accurate, but it is now obvious to me that it is a cold weather issue that affects either my heart rate monitor or my heart.  I hope it is the former.  Anyway, I decided I might as well do my speed workout, so I jogged for 2 miles then two half-mile threshold runs, then a full mile threshold run, jogging a quarter in between.  I got my pace down to the high 7s a couple of times.  I can't believe that I have to run 8:30s for 26 miles to qualify for Boston.  That is far away for me.

My goal for my next marathon is 4:30 to 4:45, which means 10:30 to 11:00 splits.  If my legs don't rebel after today's run, I'll try to run for two and a half hours in the morning at an 11:00 pace.  It's been 3 weeks since St. George, so it should be OK to air it out a little.

It was nice to be out in the crisp cold air, glad to be alive, even if slow.

Comments
From MarkP on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:39:00 from 70.148.232.4

Nice job getting your runs in this week. You live in a great place for winter running (Houston), but I'm sure the humid summers are tough.

From jasro on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 18:48:47 from 198.50.4.4

Good job. It's good to see others doing the same kind of training that I am doing. Do you think keeping track of the heart rate has helped?

From flatlander on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 18:58:31 from 76.31.26.153

I think so, but I am no expert. It helps me track my rate of improvement and keeps my speeds slow which helps on the injury front. Recently, though, my machine seems completely useless on cold days for whatever reason. Waiting to see what happens over the winter when most days are cooler, even here in Houston.

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