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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, Jun 09, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.00	0.00	0.00	0.50	1.50

I am in Panama City attending a Central America private power conference. More importantly, it is 48 hours out from UVM, so I'm not really thinking about power at all. Today is my carb slam. I got up at 5:00, went downstairs at 5:30 and asked when the restaurant opened, because I wanted to go directly to the breakfast buffet as soon as I finished. 6:30. Back to my room and weighed myself. 155, I like these scales, I'll probably come back. I mixed up my first batch of carb powder, answered some e-mails and went downstairs again at 6:30 and got on a stationary bicycle. Not really smart to run outside in Central America, so I had my choice of torture machines in the gym. I picked the bicycle on the theory that I would either injure myself on a treadmill, or I would fall off, or it wouldn't go fast enough for a VO2max workout. Bikes are supposed to be good cross-training for runners, so I thought maybe that would work. Nothing like venturing into the unknown 2 days before a marathon, but that is going to be the theme all day. 20 minutes to figure out how the bicycle worked, then 5 minute warmup. Then 3 minutes all-out, basically as fast as I could go. Last 30 seconds I threw caution to the wind. Got a really good lactate burn out of it, which I still have. I really hope I burned the right muscles. Then a 5-minute cool down, and sat down and drank the first batch of carbs, 50 grams. Nasty stuff.

I put on warmup shells and proceeded immediately to the restaurant which by now was open. Today's menu was fruit plate, yogurt, granola with skim milk and sugar, 1 glass of orange juice, 3 glasses of cranberry juice, bagel with cream cheese, scrambled eggs, 2 servings of beans and hash browns. As I made trip after trip to the buffet line the staff looked increasingly concerned, I saw one of them quickly checking food reserves. I am an honored guest but not the only guest. I'm guessing 200 grams for breakfast. I need 700+ grams of carbs today, not sure how I am going to make it, only at 300 so far (including the second batch of carb powder I am now gagging down). I can't eat another bite. So that is the report from the jungles of Central America. Can't wait to get to the mountains.

Comments

From I Just Run on Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:19:08 from 67.79.11.242

I don't know why but everyone's posts are making me laugh this morning. For some reason I invision you in a crazy feeding frenzy :-)

BTW...Rossy would be proud of your food comsumption descriptions. He describes it as "Trying-To-Go-Out-Of-My-Way-To-Eat-Healthy Challenge:".

Have a great binge...!

From JG on Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:32 from 74.190.55.151

Happy Eating! Bike is a great way to get the blood flowing in your legs & rest them from pavement pounding! You might want to do an easy 20 minutes tomorrow morning just to loosen the legs up, but I wouldn't do any strenuous pedaling. Travel safe & have a great race Saturday!!

From Dan on Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 21:41:54 from 24.209.83.20

Eating is suppose to be the FUN part of the pre-marathon!! Nice report from Central America, best of travels to the mountains.

From Steam8 on Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 21:42:10 from 166.70.55.77

Made me laugh too! I hate the carb days, I always have to gag the food down and feel sick from being too full. Good Luck! Good Luck!

From allie on Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 22:11:52 from 24.10.191.18

holy smokes you are good at eating. nice job on the carb slam, and best of luck at UVM. we've got some awesome marathon weather waiting for you!

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 17:15:42 from 184.79.24.255

Hope all your travel goes as planned today, good luck tomorrow.

From Kelli on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 18:56:11 from 71.219.92.225

Jungle vs mountains??? Hmmm.....not sure which sounds like more fun!

Good luck with the race tomorrow! Sorry it did not work out for me to be there cheering people in. It is more important to cheer my little one milers in AND I would have been sad to not be able to keep up with anyone!

From PRE on Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 15:10:37 from 99.50.214.225

Good job with the cross-training and nutrition report. That is something I need to improve upon (nutrition, hydration).

Hoping you do well with the upcoming race. Looking forward to the report.

From flatlander on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 00:01:39 from 198.207.244.102

Thanks everybody, I'm very slow in replying, kind of like sending out Christmas cards in January, but thanks anyway. The race was OK, not great, back to the grind as soon as I recover, hoping for a better day at St. George. Your support is much appreciated, and may there always be another run for all of us.

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