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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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Sat, Nov 12, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

47F, 98%, partly cloudy but dry, and calm. Gorgeous weather this morning. I was expecting high 50s, which would have morphed into high 60s by the time I finished. This was better. I started at 6:00 because I got to bed late last night. The plan was. . . .actually there was no plan. I toyed with going fast and also doing the whole thing at low heart rate, but it is too early in the training cycle to run fast and I couldn't withstand another LHR run after doing 5 already this week. Even though Wade is out of town marrying off his son I thought I might go down to the Y anyway to run, but it was too late. So I just ran, and had fun doing it. The warmup mile was 9:49, at which point I thought I could average 9:00 pretty easily. Second mile was 8:44 and I decided to shoot for an 8:40 average. But after the second mile nothing was over 8:30 and I ended up with an 8:25 average pace, last mile 7:44. Hit 20.00 right in front of my house, 2:48:26 total running time, that was it for the day.

One year ago today I ran the Richmond Marathon, also at 8:25 per mile by the Garmin (8:27 official). The difference is heart rate -- today my average was 149 for miles 1-20, compared with 164 at Richmond for miles 3-20. That was the race of my life but it is history now. I longingly checked Richmond weather one last time this morning before heading out, 30F at race time, 5 below forecast and 5 colder than last year. That might not have been so good, I would have had to go out in an extra layer of clothes then throw them away, and I never throw clothes away.

Comments

From Claudio on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:20:00 from 74.103.108.178

Excellent run Flatlander, very strong and with low heart rate, a great sign. I think that at the end of your base training you will be faster than ever!

From Stephen on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:51:43 from 174.52.133.66

Way to go Bro! You practically ran a marathon anyway today.

From I Just Run on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 16:27:33 from 71.41.149.142

That sure seems like a really good LHR. I'm probably going to wish I had done some of those in a few months.

From Steam8 on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 17:05:29 from 166.70.55.77

I don't know how you do it! 12 yesterday and 20 today! Great average pace too! I wish I could run as many miles as you do. My body gets too tired, it just can't do it!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:53:49 from 74.196.65.182

Nice 20. Try not to wonder too much about how fast you could've gone at Richmond this year!

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