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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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Mon, May 02, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.19	4.00	0.00	0.00	8.19

59F, 72%, N 3 mph. Typing this for the second time, somehow I lost my entire first post. I ran all my miles before the seminary run, planning to cut back this week, then one final push if things go well. My right leg as a whole hasn't felt very good this afternoon, won't know if there is a problem until in the morning. But no possibility of doing TM hill miles tonight. Ran 3 at LHR (10:20, 9:46 and 9:46), one transition then 4 at GMP, 7:32 (155), 7:26 (159), 7:28 (163) and 7:33 (164). This heart rate should have been a little lower given the cool weather, but at least it was lower than several runs recently in warmer temperatures. Overall 8.19 miles in 1:09:51, average pace 8:32 per mile. I think the real culprit was the new flat shoes that I ran in today. They came in the mail and the sole is quite a bit thicker than the old ones, and the shoe feels heavier, only a little bit but a definite difference. Here are the old and new right shoes:

So I think what I will do is train in the heavier ones and race in the others, that way I get kind of a handicap effect for training. Really is amazing, though, how manufacturing standards are not that uniform at all in the Amazon jungle (not a website) where these are manufactured.

Comments

From derhammer on Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:48:45 from 192.156.110.40

I hope the leg holds up. I can definitely see a difference in the shoes. BTW-those look like bowling shoes. :-)

From flatlander on Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:57:34 from 198.207.244.102

DH, yes, especially the new ones with the thicker soles. I learned just last week that bowling shoes are styled this way to prevent theft, so it looks like my shoes are safe in any environment. If I forgot them somebody would be chasing me down to make sure I leave with them. In Brazil, though, these are considered stylish.

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