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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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Sat, Jul 17, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.01

77F, 95% humidity, clear and dark. I had a commitment at 8:00 a.m. so I went out the door at 4:00 to do this run, basically the run I missed yesterday. The goal was to run 20 miles at 9:30 per mile, which is fast enough for me in this heat. I ran 20.01 miles in 3:09:03, average pace 9:27 per mile. Some of the splits and heart rates: Mile 4: 9:31 (147); mile 8: 9:36 (153); mile 12: 9:30 (159); mile 16: 9:19 (167); and mile 20: 9:17 (175). So my heart rate drifted steadily but not so much that I couldn't make the run. I didn't hit 170 until about mile 18, but more importantly I didn't break 150 until about mile 6. That is when I knew I had a chance to pull it off, although I am not sure why I was running better today than yesterday; I would have guessed that running two of these in a row would compromise the second one but it didn't happen. I almost decided to jog it in after I got a 9:40 for mile 18 since I had banked about 70 seconds of cushion, but managed to pull through and get the pace back down. I need to be tougher. This is the first long run I have nailed in a while, it felt good.

Comments

From derhammer on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 15:36:32 from 70.113.125.89

Nice job toughing it out. There is no shame in walking for 20-30 seconds to get the heart rate back down.

From Rye on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:25:39 from 97.121.21.30

Stud!!!! nice miles this week! Nice dedication. Glad to see another early riser out there.

From Smooth on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 23:24:12 from 174.23.244.221

AWESOME 20 miler! That's the pace I hope to shoot for in a 20 miler...but in much cooler condition than TX! You are super dedicated...running solo and all! VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE mileage this week. Are you following any particular training schedule? Pete Pfitzinger's plan has us follow HR, but I haven't been the HR system. NICE JOB on the HR monitoring.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:34:59 from 214.13.130.104

Nice one! Looks like HR increase was almost linear as you went along. It always feels nice to hit your goal in a big run.

From Stephen on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:57:55 from 71.195.218.176

You continue to impress me. Keep up the good work and you'll soon find yourself in Boston.

From flatlander on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 21:06:50 from 76.31.26.153

derhammer, thanks, was trying to not stop since I can't stop in races, but I might have done better if I had tried it.

Rye, wasn't liking the early hour but after a while it was no different.

Smooth, thanks. I haven't followed him much, although I think he was the one who said you will never race better than your best long run. The HR stuff I mostly make up on my own.

Joe, you are right now that I look at it. Some time I should see how far up it will go before I collapse.

Stephen, thanks. Boston would be nice, but still some work to do.

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