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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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Thu, Apr 07, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
3.34	4.00	0.00	0.00	7.34

64F, 88%, SSE 5 mph, cloudy and getting ready to do something. Started early this morning, two warmup, 4 at GMP, 7:39 (157), 7:24 (161), 7:21 (167) and 7:21 (171), then cooldown. I woke up with a cramp in my right hamstring and my legs felt sluggish from the start, but by the end of the fast laps I was feeling more in the groove. The good thing is no specific injuries at the moment, just general aches and pains from training at a high percentage of capacity. My heart rate was high from the beginning as well but not high enough to slow me down on a short run like this. I am hoping to get some hill work in tonight on the treadmill, time to start doing that. Overall 7.34 miles in 1:01:29, average pace 8:22 per mile, flat shoes.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:06:29 from 131.59.200.80

Curious to see your HR on Monday after a day off and fresher legs. That might give you a better picture of your fitness since you're beating them up a little every day and running a lot of miles on tired legs.

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 15:12:12 from 198.207.244.102

Yeah, unless I do an ambitious run on Saturday, but I haven't really decided yet. If I run hard and long on Saturdays, it usually takes me until Wednesday to get my best LHR pace back.

From I Just Run on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 15:18:02 from 166.205.13.177

I'm just amazed at how you can maintain the speed for so long at the higher heart rate. I know its different for everyone but above about 160 I'm stressing.

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 15:20:23 from 198.207.244.102

I can't come close to your LHR speed, I really think it is a physiological thing.

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 15:32:37 from 72.205.227.203

The heart rate data is really interesting. So..160 is basically your marathon pace heart rate? What does LHR stand for? It's crazy how some people are stressed at a heart rate that feels comfortable for others. Generally speaking, will you have a higher or lower heart rate with age while exercising?

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 15:53:55 from 198.207.244.102

April, sorry for the confusion, LHR is my own made-up acronym for "low heart rate", I just got tired of typing it out. For me, LHR is 125-132. I run slow at that pace (9:30 on a good day), Preston runs very fast at the same heart rate.

For me, 160 in the first 10 miles is a sustainable marathon pace, meaning if I can find a pace that keeps me at or under 160 for 10 miles, I have been able for the last two marathons to hold that pace through the end, even though my heart rate by the time I finish drifts up to around 170-175. I find keeping track like that useful because it is a way to have a decent race on a not-so-good day, but any other runner using this method would have to come up with their own heart rates, and trial and error is the only way I know how. (I ran UVM last year at about 170 for the first half and couldn't sustain it.)

According to the literature I have read, heart rate actually slows down when you get older. My statistical max should be about 165 (220 minus age), instead it is at 190-195. I have no idea what it was when I was younger, so I can't confirm the slowing down theory for me. They say it also gets slower as you get more fit, but I am skeptical of that -- seems just as likely to me that people who are more fit are no longer in the habit of using all of their heart rate reserve.

From I Just Run on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 16:05:23 from 166.205.13.177

I measured my max heart rate at 183 about 8 months ago but now can't get it to 180 now ...and I've tried really really hard. I'm 50 years old.

ICR

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