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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sat, Jul 16, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.02

80F, 83%, SSW 6 mph. We met at the Y at 4:30 for what was supposed to be a 20-mile run. Started the run with Wade, who was only going 13. Somehow the topic of The Woodlands 5K came up. It is held on the 2nd and 4th Saturday every month, it's the $1 race I ran with Wade in May. I asked him if today was the 2nd Saturday or 3rd. He said 2nd. I said OK I'll run 13 here then drive over there and do a 5K. So we finished off the 13 at an average pace of 9:25, average heart rate 140 bpm, never over 145. Wade was suffering in the heat, his heart rate went to 165, usually it is lower than mine. I thought it was interesting that I could run so long at a heart rate that is 10-12 bpm over my LHR. Too bad I can't run fast at that rate. We stopped in at the Exxon station and bought water with wet money again. Same clerk as last week. She was prepared with surgical gloves this time.

Then I drove to The Woodlands, got there just before race start at 8:00, empty parking lot. Today is the 3rd Saturday, somehow that was too difficult to figure out when we were running. I thought that was a pretty clever way to avoid a 20-miler.

So to punish myself I went back out in the early evening for another 7, 91F to start, cooled a little during the run. At first I was sweating profusely, but eventually got in the rhythm. It turned into somewhat of a progressive run: 9:29, 8:07, 8:37, 8:29, 8:04, 7:55 and 7:54. Average pace 8:22 for this segment. Mile 2 is a bit faster because I did a piece of it at a 7:30 pace and got my daughter to take a video so I could look at my form. Supposedly her iPhone takes good video but not this time. My stride is shorter and quicker than it feels, would like to get a long smooth stride. Also my arms are flying all over the place, which probably means I have some balance issues. Have to try it again with a regular video camera, but glad I did this second run. I don't like running in the evening, but it felt pretty good today for some reason.

Comments

From I Just Run on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 00:45:31 from 71.41.149.142

Ha ha... I had to laugh at the math error while running. I seem to have that same problem figuring out times and paces while I run. Anyway, about the form, I have been really concentrating on that lately. I've also been working on cadence, keeping my stride rate to 180 or above. Next, I'll be working on stride length with the same form and the same cadence. Nice running today and good week overall! I never feel that good on a second run in the same day.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:01:50 from 66.137.82.63

Gotta love that groupthink thing. Very impressive on run #2, you had everything going against you and churned out some impressive miles. Nice week as well, wow.

From Dan on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:45:23 from 24.209.83.20

Great week and great job. I know what you mean about strides (although I don't want a longer one, I am sure mine could use work).

From Rye on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 13:17:10 from 71.209.52.51

Holy shnicky! You have reached 1800 miles this year! Nice. Congrats on a fine week of running. Hope to be in your league someday.

From flatlander on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 13:54:39 from 198.207.244.102

IJR, keep me posted on the stride thing. Really looking for solutions on that.

Joe, thanks, it is too easy to talk me out of my workout I guess.

Dan, it is a little risky doing too much, injuries tend to happen. I'm going to be watching that closely.

Rye, um, other way around I think!

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