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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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Wed, Jan 18, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.07

41F, 60%, NNE 6 mph, clear and dry. A perfect morning. Left very early and ran 20.07 miles in 2:52:53, average pace 8:37 per mile, average heart rate 151 bpm, and made it to a 9:00 meeting at a client's office. This run was a only a little higher than my average pace in Richmond about 14 months ago, so I was curious to compare heart rates from that time period. I found a training run from a couple of Saturdays before that marathon. It was 26 miles, and my entry says "under 155 through 20 miles and under 160 until the last mile" -- average pace on that day was 9:36. Today I didn't break 155 until I sped up to the low 8:20s in the last 5 miles; further, I never broke 161 and could have held close to that heart rate and pace for the remainder of the marathon if I had wanted to. My shoes were heavier then, the weather about the same, training load a little heavier right now than it was then -- overall it is fair to say I was a minute faster today at a slightly lower heart rate. All well and good, but I would be like to understand why my LHR pace back then was at least as fast as it is now, that is the mystery. Everything else makes sense.

One last factoid from the Trials: The oldest man was 37 (the winner was 36 and the last place finisher was also 36). The oldest woman was 50 and there were two of them, finishing 28th and 143rd. 15 women were over 40. I can't explain the disparity but it is interesting.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 19:24:26 from 74.195.74.62

Just another 20-miler I see....ho hum.

Hey that is a pretty favorable comparison of heart rates. Especially given 52 miles in 3 days this time! I'm guessing you'd rather 8:30 pace compare well vs. the past than the LHR paces. Nice run.

From Steam8 on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 00:39:27 from 166.70.55.77

Those factoids were interesting.

Nice 20 miler...yuck! My legs are aching thinking of running a 20. Nice job!!

From I Just Run on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:25:01 from 67.79.11.242

I'm with Joe on the "ho-hum"...couldn't you at least bang out 30-40 on a run one day just to break the monotony?

One minute faster with the same HR...I'd say that was great!

From flatlander on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 17:28:47 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, that's it exactly. The whole purpose of LHR is to do better at faster speeds. Still a lot to figure out.

Steam, thanks. Can't believe how well the ladies stay in the game compared to the men.

IJR, stay tuned, I might get it today, going back out for some trails tonight, don't know how long we will last though.

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