For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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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Thu, Jul 08, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.07

Forgot to check the weather, but it felt like low 70s, starting to rain by the time I finished, nice breeze most of the run. I ran 10.07 in 1:34:14, regular shoes. Average pace was 9:22 per mile. After a 2-mile warmup at low heart rate I ran the rest at about 160 bpm, which translated into a low 8s pace to start, slowing down to high 9s at the end, about 1:45 per minute pace drift, which I attribute mostly to the heat. The last two miles I moved up to 170-175 bpm and got the pace back into the mid to high 8s. Overall pace for the last 8 miles was 8:55.

My idea is to build endurance at marathon heart rate. Maybe running this hard two or three times a week will be fairly sustainable. The major bust at UVM was not being able to sustain the heart rate late in the race, something I didn't really expect. Some of that was altitude-related and stomach cramping, but in the end it all comes back to training. In any event, in this heat there isn't any other way to measure progress that I can come up with.

Toward the end of my run I noticed the jail bus parked right in our neighborhood. Usually they are out on the road somewhere picking up trash. My first thought was to direct them to my house, as I have a couple of kids who could benefit from a couple of weeks working on that crew. Then I got upset when I realized that a busload of budding felons was casing my neighborhood on tax dollars. Time to write a letter.

Comments

From KP on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:45:42 from 65.208.22.25

time to write a letter.

From flatlander on Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 12:27:56 from 198.207.244.102

Yeah, I need to figure out who to write it too. I guess the sheriff's department takes these guys out for exercise but not sure. Don't really understand what they were thinking.

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