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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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Sat, Oct 30, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
25.00	1.22	0.00	0.00	26.22

39F, 85% humidity, calm and early. Got minimal sleep, left the house at 4:45 and ran a few miles in my neighborhood then ran to Wade's and picked him up. We ran down to the Y then back to his house. He had to get home early. I kept going and never got overly tired in these magical running temperatures. Was planning on 25 at 10 pace just to build endurance but the pace never slowed down so I started pushing it a little bit. Got plenty tired but not exhausted, then did the immature thing and ran an extra 1.22 at marathon pace just to say I ran a marathon. Total time 4:11:59 (better than my New Years Day marathon), average pace 9:36 per mile, regular shoes. Heart rate was under 150 through 20 and under 160 until the last mile, so this was a good run. I love the concept of negative splits. That is what I always used to do when I was a teenager, starting at the back of the pack and moving up. It feels good to finish a run faster than I started it. Also took a flask of something called EFS. It has 400 calories of various concoctions, tastes a little bit like a vanilla milkshake with chalk mixed in. But I tolerated it, trying to be better at getting nutrition on long runs. Took it at 5, 10 and 15, might have made a difference just not sure. It warmed up to 55F by the end of the run, still plenty cool but I could feel a difference. Off to Temple to visit the grandkids, happy weekend all.

Comments

From lightitup on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 17:52:23 from 174.31.79.73

"Might have made a difference just not sure". You crack me up bro, check your stats. Great run! You will rock Richmond.

From Stephen on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 18:17:35 from 71.195.219.56

WOW! nice run

From SlowJoe on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 18:55:57 from 214.13.130.104

Your blog never ceases to amaze me. Nice "long run!"

From flatlander on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 22:44:01 from 75.222.20.252

Thanks guys. E, whatever, something is tearing my gut up today, hope it wasn't the EFS.

From Rye on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 21:49:00 from 174.27.103.4

Stud!

From lightitup on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 22:07:14 from 174.31.79.73

So sorry about the stomach upset, but don't give up! I don't know if you've looked for the science behind fueling...I know you are hard to impress, so this guy is a 3 hour marathoner from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/marathon-1022.html

From lightitup on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 22:12:55 from 174.31.79.73

Here is the actual study,

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/mirror/article/pcbi.1000960.html

There are many...that's just what google turned up for lazy me

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