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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, Mar 09, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.04	0.00	5.00	0.00	10.04

66F, 99% humidity, wind NW 5 mph to start, 56F, 70% humidity, wind N 10-20 mph at end. Ran right through a front coming in this morning, hope it hangs around until Saturday morning. Was pretty surprised at how strong the wind was, since the weather report had posted 5 mph at the time I went out -- turns out it was changing on the fly.

The plan was to run 5 fast at 7:00 pace, in hopes that a 7:15 pace on Saturday would seem manageable. I managed to do that, but given how tired I was I am not sure it will work for Saturday. Hopefully I didn't wear myself out. Warmed up for three, accelerating into the fast ones, then 7:02 (169), 6:55 (176), 6:58 (183), 7:09 (188) (really feeling it here) and 6:57 (190). Was very happy to get that last one under 7, especially since a lot of it was into the wind. Average pace 7:00 plus 1 second for the whole 5 which I will call a rounding error. Couldn't believe how high my heart rate readouts were, at some points it was steady 192 and even showing upper 190s but it was spiking at that point and I think it might have been a mechanical malfunction (hopefully not a coronary malfunction). Nevertheless, the average bpm showing for each split are pretty accurate, I think. This one was either maximum effort or pretty close, would have been a real battle to run 10K at this speed. Cool down 2 miles, total 10.04 miles in 1:23:41, average pace 8:19 per mile, flat shoes and definitely not LHR.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:08:27 from 131.59.200.82

Excellent run!! Wind is a killer, you should do great at the half.

From I Just Run on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:20:42 from 67.79.11.242

I'm excited about your race coming up...! I think you're going to do GOOD. Hey, have you tried just physically measuring you HR to compare it to the Garmin readout? That might give you reassurance of it's proper operation.

From Dan on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 22:12:19 from 24.209.83.20

I think it was a good day to push it. It will give your legs enough time for Sat.

Nice Run!!

From Rye on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 19:57:26 from 75.174.13.229

Good luck this weekend. Race day magic with good training will produce some good results!

From flatlander on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 16:47:37 from 198.207.244.102

Thanks very much, guys, hoping for cool weather.

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