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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

Fri, Feb 20, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
30.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	30.00

59F, 79%, SE 10 mph to start (4:05 a.m.) and 63F, 75%, SSE 10 mph to end. Ran long today because we may have thunder and lightning by tomorrow morning. Didn't want to miss this run (well, I wanted to, but you know what I mean) this week because I am running another half next weekend with Wade and I don't want to crowd these 30-milers too close to Boston. I ran the last one 2 weeks ago, was about 1.5 minutes slower today, but actually came through the marathon at 3:52:03, close to a minute faster than the last one. Then I bonked beginning in mile 28, last 3 miles were 9:24, 9:43 and 10:00. Overall average was 8:56, had an 8:51 average going into the last 3.

Water at 8.25, 16.75 and 25, then the bottle was empty. At mile 29.6 I was feeling very dehydrated and stopped at a spot where I had found water before, but it was shut down. I sat down on a bench and felt sorry for myself for a minute, then decided it was pretty stupid to stop with 0.4 miles to go, dehydrated or not. So I slogged it in. Really amazing what happens when those little factory things in your legs shut down. Also interesting, I went to the grocery store immediately after the run and thought I would be in a post-marathon shuffle mode, but I was walking almost normally. So it wasn't my legs, which feel prety good, just didn't have the conditioning to finish at a constant pace. Most likely it is the 20+ degree temperature difference, I don't think I'm less conditioned than 2 weeks ago. 59F up to 63F is officially warm enough to make a difference after long miles.

Two more of these. I hope they work, they are certainly mentally grueling, which is the point of doing them -- and today physically as well.

Comments

From I Just Run on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:19:36 from 67.79.11.242

Lunges for us old guys instead of squats!

From flatlander on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:20:45 from 76.31.29.220

With weights or is that overdoing it?

From I Just Run on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:22:02 from 67.79.11.242

No weights at first, then light weights are okay. work on form first then quantity.

From Derunzo on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:29:54 from 173.9.52.242

Your an animal Mark!

From allie on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 14:30:07 from 73.207.133.226

30 what what?

quite impressive, mr. flat. i think these will pay off.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 17:18:33 from 104.51.208.13

And I was feeling pretty satisfied with myself for getting in a 22-miler this cycle...

I think it's ok to bonk in mile 28!

From Yasir on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 22:41:24 from 99.20.240.157

you mean 30k right!!! wow I'm glad not to be your running partner :-)

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