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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, May 11, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	0.75	10.75

75F, wind SSE 5 mph, 82% humidity, cloudy, great running weather. Completely screwed up my Garmin this morning. Forgot to re-set it going out, so I was running on top of yesterday's clock. Then I hit the lap button, not sure what that did but nothing good. Then after my sprint I turned it off, not sure why, for about 3/10 of a mile, so everything today is an estimate. I ran the first 7 miles at low heart rate in regular shoes, mid 11s. Then switched to flats and went as far as I could at a 7:10 pace, trying for 7:00 but that wasn't happening. I ran out of gas after about 3/4 of a mile, but hey, I got my first distance in at close to my next goal 10K pace, just have to run that hard for another 5.5 miles and I'll be good to go. After that I went back to original pace, although my heart rate was in the 140s because of the sprint. On my sister's orders I iced down my ankle after the run and so far it feels great, like I don't have to wait 12 hours for the inflammation to fade. We'll see how it holds up today, but I might have stumbled on to a pretty good solution here.

Well, I took the plunge. I'm going to run the Utah Valley Marathon this year, signed up last night just before the fee went up. It is way ahead of schedule to get a BQ, but the ankle is improving, I'm in range, the course is fast and the weather should be cool. So I'm going to try. I still have a few weeks to improve, so maybe it will work out OK. I have to run 8:37 pace to qualify, pretty ambitious, but I'm glad to just have a chance.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 13:33:00 from 131.59.200.80

Good, I think you have a pretty good chance to BQ. Are there any hills within a 100-mile radius of Houston that you can practice running down?

From flatlander on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 13:40:20 from 198.207.244.102

Nope, other than freeway offramps, which I have looked at longingly but which bring their own unique set of dangers. But I have a secret plan. I am going to prop up the back of my wife's treadmill and create a negative incline. I can't do it in the morning when she is sleeping, so this is going to mean two-a-days. Gotta do it though, can't miss out because of trashed quads.

From Smooth on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 18:09:14 from 174.23.172.155

Yay! you made the decision and sounds like you have a good plan and chance for that BQ at UVM!

From lightitup on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:17:34 from 67.185.20.107

That's what I do. I have two encylopedias, about 1.4 inches each. No idea what incline that creates, I think that would require math...you do it.

From baldnspicy on Tue, May 11, 2010 at 21:22:29 from 72.77.64.196

Nice! Signing up is 90% of the battle. Once you're committed, you work a little harder knowing you've got that goal to hit! You'll do great! I'll be sending positive vibes your way for a BQ!!

From flatlander on Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:45:28 from 75.228.219.188

Smooth, thanks, feels great to have a near-term race coming up all of a sudden. I thought I was focused before, but there is more urgency now.

E, happy to do the math, but you gotta give me the length to the nearest tenth of an inch! %slope = rise over run, then multiply by 100. Not bad for a lawyer, huh?

Bald, thanks, I can feel those vibes already. Another benefit for us hair-challenged guys, we can communicate without interference to the radio waves. The rest of the world has no idea.

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