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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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54F, 95%, NNE 5 mph, cloudy but no rain.  Today I scheduled a big interval day, wasn't sure what would happen, but it went well.  1 mile warmup then 10 x 1K as fast as I could go, jogging out each mile.  The first one I wasn't really warmed up and felt herky jerky when I tried to go fast, so was quite surprised when it came in at 7:12 pace, felt more like 7:45, certainly better than the other way around.  The splits went like this:  7:12 (155), 7:11 (158), 7:01 (163), 7:03 (167), 7:04 (169), 7:02 (170), 6:50 (167), 6:51 (169), 6:54 (168) and 6:59 (170), maximum heart rate 175 bpm.  (I raced 11 days ago and held a 174 bpm average through about 2/3 of the race, but was going quite a bit slower than this morning.  I could not have sustained that high of a heart rate this morning -- heart rates are just faster on race day.)  Average pace on the 10 splits was 7:01, at least 20 seconds faster than I thought feasible.  I have been trying to follow a focused program to strengthen my glutes and hams and it might be paying off; or it might just be the result of doing quite a few races and fast sessions lately.  As I got deep into each 1K, I would try to push off harder instead of moving faster and that seemed to produce a little extra speed.  Whatever it was, I felt like I was 56 again.  Overall 11.0 miles in 1:25:31, 7:47/mile.  I have scheduled another one of these in two weeks, will be interested to see if this morning's results hold.

PM:  9 hills on TM; legs felt better at the end than the beginning, some fatigue but looser.

Comments
From Tom K on Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:55:00 from 73.27.178.76

"at least 20 seconds faster than I thought feasible" - That Rocks! BTW, I felt like I was 56 this morning, too.

From Yasir on Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:11:53 from 99.20.240.157

you are peaking. Please stay healthy cuz you are going to rock this spring.

From SlowJoe on Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 08:57:04 from 12.182.148.249

Wow, nice! To feel crappy and turn it into a progressive workout...something is definitely going right. I won't tell Boston your "feels like" age.

From flatlander on Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 06:10:45 from 76.31.29.220

Tom, now that we're the same age, how come you are faster?

Yasir, trying not to peak yet, and trying to not overdo it. Hopefully I get it right.

Thanks Joe, you've got my back.

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