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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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Fri, Apr 22, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
14.05	4.00	0.00	0.00	18.05

74F, 82%, SSE 6 mph and clearing. Sky was clear by the time I finished. It is Good Friday, no work today, slept until I woke up and decided to just do a regular run, but all in one session today due to the holiday. Ran 6 LHR at about 9:55 per mile. Second mile was 9:36 and had high expectations but the heat caught up to me pretty quickly. Then 1 transition mile, 8:27 and 4 at GMP: 7:26 (163), 7:23 (169), 7:22 (175) and 7:27 (177), then 1 mile active cooldown. Weight to start: 161; at end: 157. In between I drank 1.5 pounds of liquid, so that is how much we sweat down here.

As I was thinking about my weight at about mile 6, it occurred to me that my best mile time right now is probably pretty close to 6 minutes flat. In high school, the last time I ran seriously, I only broke 5 minutes one time, never consistently, so right now I am about a minute slower but 25 pounds heavier. So the thing I realized (as I was running along at mile 6 with nothing else to do) is that if I had run with a 25-pound backpack in high school, it is unlikely I would broken 6 minutes, much less 5. Looking at it that way, I am as fast now as then if I would lose more weight. That is the rub, though. Friends and family who are used to the old 200-pound me aren't really too thrilled about how skinny I am already. If I went down to 135 they would probably stage an intervention.

PM: 6 hill training on TM.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:45:48 from 184.79.24.255

135 sounds pretty sickly, but I saw something about how much those distance runners weigh and it seems all the best are between 120-140 (maybe they are short too?). I would definitely get some kind of intervention as well, if I approached those kind of numbers.

From RivertonPaul on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:59:36 from 67.42.27.114

You are looking so good. Impressive weight loss, really.

From Dan on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 20:15:41 from 24.209.83.20

How tall you are is a big deal. They say 2 2 secs a pound, but idk. I think your loss is impressive too. Nice run!

From I Just Run on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 20:34:33 from 166.205.15.133

Funny you talk about how much fluid is lost in the heat. I ran today and lost 6 pounds...It was a disaster. Haven't hat time to log the details but I sure learned what NOT to do. Now I just need to figure out WHAT to do! In short I sure didn't get faster ad I lost 6 pounds.

I "Still" Just Run

From flatlander on Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:33:37 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, it's all theoretical anyway, I haven't lost any more weight in a while, despite running higher miles recently. Would be really nice to drop 5 for the next marathon, just might make the difference.

Thanks Paul, so good to see you back in the saddle.

Dan, that seems about right, would put me close to a 5-minute mile if my math is right. I'm 6'0", so 135 is very skinny, but that was my weight at the same height back in my prime, so long ago.

IJR, now I have to go out and see if I can lose 6.5 pounds of precious body fluids, thanks a lot!

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