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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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36F, 97% and calm.  Another beautiful morning -- two shirts, gloves, beanie and shorts was just about right.  Ran 10.0 in 1:39:52, 9:59 per mile, 137 bpm, 142 max.  Pretty humiliating to run that slow, but it is what I need.  I swear I could feel the conditioning coming back into my muscles -- just an illusion I know but illusions count.  I decided, between now and Boston, not to do any running between 140 and 160 bpm.  Either slow or fast, nothing in between.  After Boston I'll probably move that to 135/165.  I think the last two training cycles have shown that for me there really is such a thing as junk miles.  Just because I feel stiff, tired and sore after a run doesn't mean I got anything out of it.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 09:51:23 from 69.131.141.92

Interesting strategy, and I like it a lot. I'm also trying to move to a slow-runs-slower, fast-runs-faster kind of plan, though a lot less scientific. Nice run this morning.

From PRE on Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 18:47:04 from 99.50.213.11

Flatlander,

Hi. Not sure if you ever heard of Coach Jack Daniels. Or Coach McMillan. But there are ways to determine what your various paces should be for particular types of runs (Easy, recovery, tempo, VO2 max intervals, repetitions of 100 meters to 400 meters, etc). Both coaches emphasize running within the prescribed paces for the particular workout and for the prescribed period of time. Jack Daniels is a firm believer in not working harder than necessary. Because it simply makes the recovery period longer. Running 5K repeats with hard portion being 7 minutes for example is a mistake...at most five minutes. Maybe you knew all this. Myself...I am adding more miles on and getting comfortable with just doing that...easy pace miles. Working on endurance right now. And it does take getting used to that. Hope all well with you and your family. Glad to hear Boston is happening for you.

From Bec on Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 21:20:50 from 72.191.19.182

I like your strategy and I hope it plays into your Boston training. I think 10 miles are 10 miles. Some days running doesn't feel too great and then you get out again and it feels wonderful. Rest and recover and move forward! Sometimes that is all we can do.

From I Just Run on Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 17:10:41 from 166.137.119.34

I like your strategy but I sometimes I do both the fast and slow in the same day...(like today, Sunday).

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