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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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Thu, Nov 19, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.37	0.00	2.50	0.00	7.87

48F, warmed up for two miles, about 11:00 pace then ran 10 x 400 with 400 jogging intervals, then jogged in for the last mile or two, about the same pace. I left my heart rate monitor at home today, but I'll take it on the next one of these, it would have been interesting to see what is happening on the upper end of the spectrum. Average pace for the whole run was 10:10 per mile, total distance 7.87, total running time 1:20:00. These are most of my splits, although I'm not the greatest at figuring out the buttons on my Garmin:

2:16, 2:04, 1:57, 1:57, 1:54, 1:50, 1:54, 1:49 (7:09 pace).

That's only eight splits, so where did the others go? No telling, I had a 1:47 in there I thought, and I swear I counted ten splits altogether. It felt good to stretch it out a little bit, and I actually hit my lactate threshold on one of the quarters, something I haven't felt since I was a teenager. I wonder if it is still possible to run a 5-minute mile (slapping myself awake now). I hope I don't pay dearly for this morning's frolic.

Comments

From lightitup on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:01:00 from 72.201.2.243

You are such an inspiration...shooting at high goals. If I can ever do the RC section and get at least 3 passages 90% right, it will be like your five minute mile! I am S. L. O. W.

I really think we can do this.

From Huans32 on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:01:24 from 138.64.2.76

Wow that is one awesome workout. Look at you go. You got progressively faster too.:) Yeah you will pay for it later most like since you don't do alot of speed work. But you earned it man. Take it easy on next run or 2. You did awesome and no HR monitor nice.:)

From Huans32 on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:02:50 from 138.64.2.76

I am also shooting to go under 6 mm myself. Almost got it the other day. But a 5 DANG!!!

From jasro on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:03:46 from 198.50.4.4

Nice job. Way to get faster and stronger as the run progressed.

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