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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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Tue, Jun 01, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.46	2.00	0.00	0.00	6.46

75F, 85% humidity, wind SW 6 mph. Very nice morning out. I ran in flats, 6.46 miles, average pace 10:04. Ran first 4 at low heart rate, 11:38, 10:39, 10:28 and 10:27, then ran two at MP (kind of), 8:46 (147 bpm) and 8:19 (158 bpm), then jogged it in at 10:24 pace. Wore ice all the way in to work and my ankle feels fine so far. Was surprised I could still run that fast at low heart rate with this much heat, I think it is the shoes more than anything. The flat shoes almost force me to run up on my toes, which seems to make everything feel better. My ankles feel some strain, but that is a training issue I think, not a permanent issue. This run felt much better than yesterday's -- maybe because I ran 6 instead of 12?

Still trying to decide about UVM. If I thought I could get away with running it in flats I might just do it. The latest idea is to arrive a few hours before the race. Apparently some professional sports teams do that when they go in to Denver or SLC. The theory as I understand it is that your lungs are shocked into taking in more oxygen. I am a little skeptical, but a lot of experts say that is the best thing to do if you can't go in two weeks early. There is a flight that gets in about 11:30 p.m. and I think the buses start running at about 3:30 a.m. if not earlier. I'm not counting 8 hours in there anywhere.

Comments

From RivertonPaul on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 11:36:56 from 67.42.27.114

Another reason I treadmill run -- humidity. Way to persevere.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 19:43:04 from 204.133.180.90

That's interesting about how people combat the altitude issue. I suppose you could start adjusting your sleep to make that work but it sounds...tough. Nice run.

From Mack on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 19:49:11 from 71.111.186.66

Have you felt the difference in altitude when you have run in Utah in the past?

From flatlander on Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 20:05:39 from 198.207.244.102

Paul, funny thing is, I sweat almost as much inside because there is no wind generated on those treadmill things.

Joe, they say you get no sleep the night before anyway, so might as well make it official. Problem though, their e-mail today said they would only give out packets to the actual runners, not sure how I am going to get around that one since that process closes at 9:00 the night before. I am starting to have family and work issues being away any longer than that anyway, so if I can't work something out with them I'll have to bag it for this year. How is Wyoming?

Mack, yeah, I ran part of the course when I was there a week ago and was not doing very well with the altitude. Just wasn't getting the push down the hill I was counting on. Ogden killed me a year ago, and I suspect it was the same issue. Kind of humbling for a guy who trained and ran at 7,000 feet in high school.

From baldnspicy on Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 09:01:38 from 72.95.171.93

Way to hang in there with the humidity! We're getting that too and it's hard. But we're tough runners, so nothing stops us!

I sweat a ton inside, but when it's hot outside, I come in and I sweat like a pig while I stretch, take a cool shower to try and cool off before going back to my desk in my cube. That still doesn't keep me from sweating like crazy for the next hour.

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