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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.168.000.000.0010.16

67F, 93% humidity, wind S 3 mph, moving to SE 8 mph, cloudy and threatening but no rain.  Crazy warm this morning, but pleasant in its own twisted way.  Felt relatively good after my day off so I ran pretty hard.  10.16 miles in 1:24:01, average pace 8:16 per mile, flat shoes.  Warmed up 2 low heart rate miles, 10:30 (122) and 9:31 (131), then ran 8 a little faster than goal marathon pace, 12 seconds per mile slower than projected goal half marathon pace although I don't think I could have sustained it for a half marathon this morning anyway.  Splits were 8:02 (148), 7:54 (156), 7:34 (162), 7:43 (163), 7:51 (166), 7:52 (167), 7:48 (171) and 7:40 (173), then a short cool-down. Average pace for the fast miles was 7:48.  This run was harder than it should have been, but I am blaming it on the weather.  In any event it will be a good baseline comparison as I try to do a lot of these miles over the next month getting ready for New Years Day, to the extent my legs can withstand the faster pace.  That strategy worked for Richmond so I will stick with it for now.

 

Comments
From KP on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:48:26 from 65.208.22.25

wish it was that warm here! i'm tired of the cold already :)

From Smooth on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:08:06 from 67.2.111.170

LOVE LOVE LOVE all those 7s pace! NICE run! GREAT start of the week!

From Stephen on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:18:32 from 204.182.3.235

Good job!

From derhammer on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 16:06:20 from 65.67.40.73

Nice job - hopefully you found this morning a bit cooler. :-)

From flatlander on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 16:15:19 from 198.207.244.102

KP, check out our temperatures for Wednesday!

Thanks Smooth, just saw that you are going crazy in the cold up there. Good miles this week.

Stephen, thanks, if I ran in your weather I would become bald. Wait, you run in that weather and . . .

David, thanks, I certainly did, it's been a fun week with all the weather changes.

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