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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, Mar 20, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.12	9.00	0.00	0.00	21.12

60F, cloudy and getting ready to rain. Perfect running weather. This run was not very successful. The plan was to run a couple of warmup miles then do 20 at an 8:30 pace. But I couldn't do it. I warmed up one mile then ran 7 at that pace: 8:30, 8:31, 8:25, 8:16, 8:37, 8:32, 8:45 -- average pace 8:31, not bad but I couldn't hold the pace any longer. I dialed back to a jogging pace, about 11:30 for 5 miles, then about 11:00 for 2 more. At this point I was at mile 16 and decided to try again. I did mile 17 at 9:34, jogged a mile (9:56), then did mile 19 at 9:00, then cut back to 11:00 for the last two miles. Overall pace 10:02 in 3:31:52. By this time it was raining. I got in my car and drove back over the course to pick up my used water bottles, came home soaked and took a long hot shower. No ice baths for this boy.

I am not improving quickly enough. I may have to scrap some of the low heart rate focus and start running hard during the week, building up a little at a time hopefully to be able to withstand the extrera stress.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 15:23:53 from 184.79.24.255

Still a great run, in my mind. 20 miles at BQ pace already (in the midst of training) would've been quite a feat. I think we all doubt whether we stress ourselves enough in training since improvements never seem to manifest quickly enough.

From RivertonPaul on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 17:24:32 from 75.169.26.228

Nice miles, big week. You might up the heart rate just slightly but the low heart rate training does take time. At some point, however, you do need to kick it up for a period of time.

From lightitup on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 20:24:27 from 67.185.20.107

Find a coach you trust. I'll pay. :D

Really I agree with SlowJoe....you're asking way too much for 20 miles at this point, basically race pace, well basically THE race, on a heavy mileage week. Next to impossible. If you could have done it I would say you're going way too slow during the week. Find a plan you trust and a genius coach who will work with you every day, not just plug in an overall plan and disappear.

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