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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sat, Feb 26, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.10

58F, 87% humidity, wind S 10 mph. Unlike yesterday, it was getting warmer as I ran today rather than cooler. The program was to run an entire long run at low heart rate. Started out OK, a little slower than yesterday, hitting mid-10s for the first 8 or 9 miles, not as good as yesterday but OK. Then it went south. I was in the low 12s by the time I finished, kind of interesting and disheartening at the same time. I now know for sure that I need to do a lot more running in this range. It is hard to do long runs at low heart rate unless I do them alone though. I am starting to think that long runs are like regular runs, they should be either fast or slow to get the most benefit. I was really beat up by the time I finished, which again shows that I am working a different system than usual. Ran 20.12 miles in 3:41, average pace 11:02 per mile.

I am traveling starting Tuesday morning and will be jet lagged, so running is going to be a mess this week. Don't know what the situation will be as far as temperatures, time or a place to run, and I won't be back until Sunday night. Probably time for an easier week anyway. Bummer is that I might also be traveling the following weekend, when I have a half scheduled in Beaumont. So life is intruding a little.

Comments

From Mack on Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 22:58:50 from 71.111.188.189

Hope you find a way to squeeze in some runs while you are traveling, unless you need a little bit of a break.

From SlowJoe on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:53:52 from 131.59.200.82

Running for over 3-1/2 hours will beat up anyone. Glad you could get in the 20 miles before it gets too crazy. If you miss your HM in Beaumont, drive up to Longview the next weekend and run it with us there!

From flatlander on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:47:52 from 75.214.165.172

Thanks Mack, running while traveling is at best a maintenance activity, have never had a really good run on the road, but it beats not running at all, for sure.

Joe, sounds like Longview might be an option, thanks for the heads up.

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