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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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Fri, Apr 20, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.15	20.00	0.00	0.00	20.15

63F, 90%, calm and partly cloudy. I'm traveling out of town this weekend and it's my first Saturday for a "fast finish" long run, of which I plan to do 3 before my next marathon. Except I am going to do them a little different this time around, back to my retro style before I read too many running books: Run like *&^^^% and hold it for 20, on the theory that if you can do it for 20 you can do it for 26, and you're on your own for the last 0.2. So the goal today was 8:00 per mile, which isn't really my A goal but it is a respectable pace. I made it, only two or three splits were over 8, overall I ran 20 miles in 2:38:13 for an average pace of 7:55 per mile. I also had an untimed 0.15 mile warmup, which is just enough to get the sludge in my joints circulating a little bit. The best thing about the run was my heart rate, average 158 and max 170, which is below marathon range. I never averaged higher than 168, and didn't break 165 until mile 19. The worst thing was playing "you first, no me first", with a car as I was running out of a side street. The driver was my wife, who was finishing the seminary run for me. I got a bit of a lecture on that one. I took water at mile 3.5, 10 and 13.6, didn't do EFS or other calories or electrolytes, need to buy some and practice taking it. Next time I will try for 7:45, but we will see. Even though the cardio was there, the old legs were pretty sore for the last 10 this morning.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:12:35 from 155.219.241.10

Wow, great run. That's a really nice 20-miler. No doubt you will benefit from that one.

From SonofaFlatlander on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:54:16 from 99.101.215.37

nice job!

From Claudio on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:30:53 from 216.99.185.50

Excellent run! did you decide on your next marathon?

From Dan on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 19:09:43 from 24.209.83.20

Nice 20 miler.... sure you don't want to run a nice one Air Force Base Marathon :)

From I Just Run on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 21:10:09 from 166.205.11.91

Wow...you're ready for a race! Good run!!!

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