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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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I picked up my daughter and some friends from a church camp in San Antonio at 7:00 this morning, so the traditional Saturday morning long run was out the window.  I got back to Houston in the early afternoon and took a nap, to which I am entitled due to my advanced years.  At about 6:30 I thought I might be able to go outside and get 15 in before dinner.  As a precaution I checked the weather channel site for our zip code and it said 98F.  No thank you.  Which is a long way of saying that today was a treadmill day.

I got on the 'mill and ran for a little over two hours before a late dinner.  15.00 miles at 7 mph (8:34 per mile).  Honestly, I don't know how to compare it to street running, other than the excruciating mental aspect, but part of the mental pain was due to watching yet another Astros meltdown, inning by inning, mile by mile.  I was running about 2 machine miles per inning.  My heart rate started out at 134, almost LHR zone, and climbed very slowly throughout the run, finishing at 161.  So you would think this was a very manageable pace, and at first I thought the effort wasn't equivalent to running the same pace outside.  But by the end of the session I was nauseous and practically dead, even though my heart rate was completely under control.  I haven't been running much in this zone right above LHR, so maybe that is part of the problem.  Which is a long way of saying I don't really know how long I ran or how fast I ran it.  Just a whole new experience which I hope I don't have to repeat too often.  Hate those machines.

Comments
From Dan on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 00:36:59 from 24.209.83.20

Thats a lot of TM miles. I hate them too. Any chance the HR was related to the ball game? I know when Ohio State is losing mine goes through the roof :p

From Smooth on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 00:47:56 from 67.2.82.242

Sorry for the dreadmill miles!!! sounds like torture...watching the innings!!! ;)

You deserve that nap after chauffering the girls on a hot summer day! :)

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 10:38:51 from 75.109.104.60

That's longer than I've ever lasted on the TM, congrats. I got nauseous just reading about it. Had to laugh about the Astros though. We were huge fans when we lived in Houston but they are making it very tough to be loyal these days.

From I Just Run on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 18:50:40 from 173.24.140.194

I'm surprised you're heart rate didn't skyrocket to 200 watching the game. You probably could have just sat on the couch and gotten a good cardio workout :-) I often take a nap while running on the treadmill it's so boring!

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