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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, Apr 13, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.01	4.00	0.00	0.00	16.01

50F, 80%, calm and clear. Another great running morning. Got out the door early and did 3 easy, 1 transition and 4 at GMP: 7:43 (156), 7:25 (161), 7:29 (163) and 7:19 (166) (average 7:29), 1 cooldown. Break for seminary run, then finish up with 5 LHR (10:30 to 10:45 per mile on fatigued legs), overall 14.01 miles in 2:11:25, average pace 9:23 per mile, flat shoes.

Had to get done early to be sitting in the dentist chair at 8 sharp, where they started with a blood pressure reading, approximately 55 minutes after finishing my run: 113/53. Apparently you don't normally have a 60 point spread (aka pulse pressure) between diastolic and systolic, more like 40. But apparently it is also the case that runners have bigger pulse pressures. Wikipedia, which I consider the final authority, has this to say:

Usually, the resting pulse pressure in healthy adults, sitting position, is about 40 mmHg. The pulse pressure increases with exercise due to increased stroke volume, healthy values being up to pulse pressures of about 100 mmHg, simultaneously as total peripheral resistance drops during exercise. In healthy individuals the pulse pressure will typically return to normal within about 10 minutes. For most individuals, during aerobic exercise, the systolic pressure progressively increases while the diastolic remains about the same. In some very aerobically athletic individuals, for example distance runners, the disastolic will progressively fall as the systolic increases. This behavior facilitates a much greater increase in stroke volume and cardiac output at a lower mean arterial pressure and enables much greater aerobic capacity and physical performance. The diastolic drop reflects a much greater fall in total peripheral resistance of the muscle arterioles in response to the exercise (a greater proportion of red versus white muscle tissue).

That's just what I was thinking. (Actually, I have no idea whether it explains anything about my high pulse pressure reading.)

PM: 2 miles hill work on TM. Legs were killing me all day, but they felt good once I got going a little bit. Kind of sad that I have to run to feel better.

Comments

From I Just Run on Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 16:55:21 from 67.79.11.242

Ha...ha...when I went to the doctor last week the nurse, after taking my blood pressure and pulse, had a funny look on her face and then asked "have you been feeling alright?" She said my blood pressure and pulse was really low.

IJR

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:34:51 from 76.31.26.153

You should have told her the truth: "No, I feel crappy, I go out and run myself silly every morning, the only time I don't is when I am injured, in which case I feel even crappier."

From I Just Run on Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:46:14 from 67.79.11.242

Hey....I know that crappy feeling and that crappier feeling even better... :)

IJR

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