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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Mon, Jul 04, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.25

78F, 80%, SW 4 mph, clear and hot. I was glad to be out running on this 4th of July morning and thankful to all those who made it possible. In more places than not there are no runners. Poverty, hunger and war make it an unaffordable luxury, doesn't hurt me at all to remember that once in a while.

But it was certainly hot. 24 hours ago the forecast for this morning was 71F, last night it was 73F, this morning at 4:30 a.m. it started out much hotter than that, dropped to 75F by the time I finished but it was too late by then. The goal was to run at an 8-minute pace, so I picked out a lap which I thought was a little over 2 miles and decided to run it 5 times. My garmin cratered a quarter of a mile in, so I was guessing. I finished the first lap and I was already melting in the heat. I had just read some pretty scary stuff on heat exhaustion, so not having access to heart rate data I decided to alternate laps, not too fast on the fast ones and not too slow on the slow ones. That worked OK. Finished 5 laps in 102 minutes by my cell phone, 3 fast and 2 slow. Got home and measured the lap on a Google Earth application, 2.45 miles, so average pace was 8:20 per mile. I was probably doing the fast ones right at 8:00.

For hydration, I took a big drink every 2 laps instead of sipping away. My stomach seemed to like that better. Also used EFS once every two laps -- my stomach did not like that better, but I kept it down.

We have another 100 days of this heat, probably I need to find something else to think about.

Happy holiday all.

Comments

From Dan on Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 15:17:35 from 24.209.83.20

Always good to remember that. Wonder why your body prefers gulps to sips? Good run today, happy 4th.

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 18:55:46 from 174.70.177.86

That sounds tough and oppressive. 100 more days!? I hope not! Way to get it done--determination.

From Rye on Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:08:38 from 174.27.65.237

Nice run flat.. Man, it gets in the 90's here for a week and its more than I can stand.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:15:22 from 132.3.53.68

Nicely done. I hate when the forecasters give you false hope. If we have 100 more days of this, I quit...

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