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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sat, Dec 07, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

33F (24 WC), 87%, N 12 mph. After being doped up all week, today was the day to get out and test the endorphin theory. Haven't really slept much with this flu, which has been particularly vile and persistent. But I got out despite the cold weather because I couldn't really wait much longer if I am going to race in 3-1/2 weeks. Fully dressed for battle, the run still felt very strange. I planned three 2.5 mile laps plus a couple of detours to get to 8, and I was ready to quit after the first one. Not because I was tired, either in my legs or aerobically, but because I was sick. But I decided to try one more loop and by the time I came around to the start line I was picking up the pace and never considered quitting. I still felt odd -- I have been on Nyquil, Ibuprofen and Benadryl this week, just to make it through the nights. Ibuprofen has the fewest side effects, but I don't like to use it too much just because it is so effective for me; want to save it for when I really need it. So last night I took a half-dose of Benadryl to see if it would get me some sleep. Didn't seem to help much and I had a headache and a metal taste in my mouth this morning and throughout the run -- then coughed and hacked on my congestion the whole time. But for cardio and legs the run was fine. I didn't take a watch, then wished I had. An honest guess is 8:30 pace, though I think I was considerably faster than that by the end; even so I never felt like I was pushing the needle at all. It was like I had been tapering all week. On an endorphin high now and I feel the best I have felt since before I got sick, practically normal.

Comments

From I Just Run on Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 07:44:55 from 67.79.11.242

Lots of description there...I think it sounds good! :-)

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