For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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 31, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.01	2.00	0.00	0.00	12.01

72F, 92% humidity, wind calm, 75F at end Rained last night but just made it more muggy, no break in the temperature. Today's plan was to do 20, 10 at MP + 1.5 then 10 at MP. First 10 went pretty well, heart rate stayed at or below 155 through the first 9. When I sped up my legs felt heavy, then disaster -- I got to my water stop and somebody had taken my bottles. I was already soaked to the skin, the sun was up and I couldn't risk running without water in these conditions. So that was it. Honestly, my heart rate had already climbed to 175 during miles 11 and 12 and I am not sure I could have made it another 8 at that speed anyway. I lost net 5 pounds of water during the run, 169 down to 164. Overall, 12.01 miles in 1:56:26, average pace 9:42 per mile.

I think of runners as a pretty mellow group, but not everybody thinks running is a great thing. Kind of discouraging when something like this happens. It happened once before and somebody who saw me looking for my bottles came up and said they thought they were just cleaning up litter, so hopefully that is all it was.

So now I have a decision to make. It looks like I am not in a position to BQ right now. Might be a good idea to keep training instead of using up a month tapering and then ramping back up, I might be further ahead in the long run. Plus, there are a lot of work pressures and pressures with the family's summer schedule. The logistics and training for this marathon are starting to look difficult all of a sudden. I need to decide soon.

Comments

From lightitup on Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:29:30 from 67.185.20.107

I want to strangle the person who moved your bottles!

You know my opinion; tapers are a good thing and needed to avoid overtraining injuries. OTOH I woke up this morning thinking I don't know if I can keep up with you...maybe if you don't taper I can?

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