For Whom the Dogs Bark

April 28, 2024

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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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Wed, Jul 07, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.12	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.12

79F, 94% humidity, wind ESE 5 mph, nice hot running weather, no chance of catching a cold today. Got my new Garmin in the mail and strapped it on this morning, ran 10.12 miles at low heart rate in flat shoes. Average pace 11:04 per mile. I had some low 10s early in the run but as the internal heat built up I gradually slowed down to mid-11s. I checked the last low heart rate run I recorded on April 16 at 64F. The first three miles were almost the same, 11:43, 10:19, 10:11, but my overall pace on that day was 10:25, about the same as my last lap, and I never slowed down much until the last two miles, even then by only a few seconds. Today my last mile was about 11:40, so at the end of a 10-mile run the heat (only about 15 degrees higher) slows me down by about 1:15 per mile at low heart rate. After 20 miles I think the effect is even more dramatic, though I have never tried to run that far at low heart rate. More nerdy stuff, sorry.

One more technical note, if you buy a new Garmin you don't have to buy a new heart rate strap, the old one works just fine. That might seem obvious, but I thought they might be synching individual monitors with individual machines. It is a generic piece of equipment. Probably useless information, though, I don't think you can buy them separately.

On a less technical note, I saw a snake. Didn't investigate him too closely but I don't think it was a garter snake.

Comments

From KP on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:59:39 from 65.208.22.25

yay! i'm glad your new toy came in.

From Rye on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 14:16:46 from 174.27.108.29

Running toys are awesome! Enjoy....on a run a few weeks ago.....without my contacts in, I mistakenly stepped on a brown twig. Realizing afterwards that it was soft snake...well after a few cartwheels and forward rolls I managed to get a hold of myself....Yikes! It was a harmless water snake sunny himself.

From Smooth on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 16:06:00 from 174.23.191.197

There's an article in this month's RW about running in heat and humidity. It says every 5 degrees above 60F can slow your pace 20 - 30 seconds per mile.

I bought a new 305 just before Boston this year and now have 2 heart rate monitor straps that I'm not using. I should have just bought a 205 instead...but never know if I might go back to training with HR again.

NICE mileage this week, btw!

From SlowJoe on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:21:12 from 84.11.148.246

That's some good data analysis from the new gadget. Glad you're over the food poisoning crud.

From flatlander on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:44:33 from 198.207.244.102

KP, I prefer to think of it as a finely tuned scientific instrument.

Rye, that is a close call. Could have easily been something else. We are vulnerable out there.

Smooth, thanks for reminding me. I saw it too but forgot to check it against my own results -- it works out almost exactly as predicted, interesting.

Joe, thanks, still some lingering effects but not enough to complain about. Thanks for giving me the excuse.

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