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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, Sep 16, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.00	13.00	0.00	0.00	14.00

66F, 94% humidity, clear and calm. Beautiful morning outside, the weather broke last night and I wasn't aware until I stepped outside to catch a satellite with my Garmin. I was considering skipping this run altogether, because I was up until past midnight due to a daughter's car accident. (She is OK, ran over a tire on a freeway in Louisiana, don't ask why she was in Louisiana, I'm still not sure.) But I woke up pretty much on schedule. I had planned a half-marathon run in an overconfident moment earlier in the week, but it was daunting to get up this morning and actually have to do it. But I put on my flats and went out the door on autopilot and warmed up for a mile (9:59) then took off. The goal was to do 13 at 8 flat and I succeeded. Splits for the 13 were 8:00 (148); 8:01 (153); 7:59 (155); 8:03 (159); 7:50 (161); 7:58 (163); 7:58 (163); 8:04 (165); 8:00 (166); 7:52 (168); 8:12 (168); 7:51 (172); and 7:45 (175), average pace for the 13 was 7:58, overall average was 8:06, total time 1:53:28 and 1:43:30 for the 13, which projects to 1:44:18 for a full half marathon, which is about an 8-1/2 minute PR for me for that distance, not that I have run it much. I got an assist from the weather, not sure what would have happened at 76F but probably wouldn't have made it. Gotta go, big day at work today. Happy running everybody.

Comments

From derhammer on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:20:52 from 65.67.40.73

Wow - phenomenal run! Nice break in the weather - we still had high 70's this morning. More amazing is that you went out and did this run all on your own. I am not sure I could do that.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 15:45:44 from 214.13.130.104

Holy cow! Now that has to give you confidence for a BQ. You're in awesome shape if you can do that with no taper and without the excitement of being in a race. 66F is not exactly ideal either.

From lightitup on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 16:14:24 from 174.31.70.177

Congrats! Now, please taper...

From Smooth on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 20:27:40 from 67.132.126.22

WOW!!! SUPER EXCELLENT run! I agree w/ Joe! What a confidence builder! I smell a BQ coming your way!!

From flatlander on Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:17:22 from 76.31.26.153

derhammer, thanks. After seeing your weather report I am doubting mine. Trying to figure out how I can doublecheck what our true temperature was yesterday morning. Doesn't make sense to me that we would be 10 degrees cooler than Austin here, especially since our cool weather always comes from the north or the west. It would be an added bonus if I found out I did that run at 76F instead of 66F, but I think it was definitely cooler than 76F.

Joe, thanks. I figure if you can serve and still run fast in a lot of heat I can do it here to a lesser extent. You are making good progress there.

E, one more heavy day then taper, taper, taper. For the first time I am actually looking forward to a taper. It has been a long, hot summer.

Smooth, thanks very much. I sure hope so, I feel like I have done what I can. If it doesn't happen there is always another race. Thanks for the tip on the taper coach. I like him a lot, sensible no-nonsense guy. I'll dig out his plan and see if I can follow it.

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