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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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Thu, Oct 28, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.00	8.12	0.00	0.00	10.12

71F, 21% humidity, wind N 14-22. Wind coming from the north blew out all the humidity, don't ever recall seeing the it this low in Houston. Thought it was a typo but when I got back it said 15%. Nevertheless, it should have been a lot cooler by now, I am thinking tomorrow's 40F forecast is going to be more like 50, and Saturday even warmer. Hey, at least we don't have snow.

I got a late start after getting home at midnight from work, so it was almost light when I left the house. Ran 10.12 miles in 1:31:06, average pace 9:00, regular shoes. After warming up a couple of miles I held marathon pace at 160 bpm for about 4 miles then it went over and I bagged the idea, just ran harder. Average for the fast miles was about 8:36, range 8:13 to 8:56. I decided to kick in the last mile and it came in at 8:30. Some kick, legs felt lactate-y.

Comments

From Kelli on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 19:01:34 from 71.219.65.246

Lactate-Y? What does that feel like?

Now that we are freezing, I envy your weather. I really like winter, but we always have wind and it just makes running downright unbearable (but, really, WHAT is unbearable?)

From flatlander on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 19:23:25 from 198.207.244.102

Ooops, this is embarrassing. I meant lactic acidy, something that every runner is familiar with. I am pretty certain I will never know what lactate-y feels like. I looked at that word 3 times and finally decided to go with it. Should have looked once more.

From Kelli on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 20:05:04 from 71.219.65.246

I actually THOUGHT what you MEANT, but I still do not know what it feels like. Guess I am not a runner!!! ;o)

From allie on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 23:19:30 from 174.23.195.124

yes, at least you don't have snow!

nice lactate-y last mile... :)

From flatlander on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:02:31 from 76.31.26.153

OK, final word on lactate vs. lactic acid. My son in medical school just took a test on it this week. He reads my blog and said this: "Lactate is synonymous for lactic acid. As a verb it's milk secretion, as a noun it's the salt of lactic acid, which is the form it will be in your muscles, since your blood pH is about neutral." So I was accidentally correct, kind of. Sometimes better to be lucky than good.

Kelli, to answer your more serious question, when some of us lesser runners run too fast our muscles lock up and we can't go any faster, not because we are tired (as in dizzy, out of breath or nauseous) but because the lactic acid builds up faster in the leg muscles than it can be washed out. I think that's what happened to me on the last mile.

From Kelli on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 14:06:24 from 71.219.65.246

Lesser runners? I think not! I just do not know all of these technical running terms. I know, "It feels good" and "THIS SUCKS!"

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