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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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68F, 90%, SSE 2 mph, cloudy but dry.  Weather is starting to look pretty sketchy for the next couple of days, so it was now or never for this one, my second metric marathon of this training cycle, goal 7:45/mile.  I was a little bit afraid of the heat, but it all worked out.  Did a hard warmup, was up to speed after 1 mile and turned on my watch.  First mile came in at 7:32 (156), second one ballooned to 7:48 (158) and it yoyo-ed like that for the whole run.  Pretty beat by 5 miles but decided to just try for 10.  Wade met me at mile 9.  He is recovering from a bad cold and was realy struggling in the heat, but he stayed with me for 3, which was a huge help; I actually started speeding up and was at 12 miles by the time he left.  12 is very different than 9, it was like one of those board games where you jump ahead several spaces if you land on the right spot.  After Wade left I finished it off without too much trouble.  Last 5 were 7:32 (173), 7:37 (173), 7:34 (173), 7:30 (175) and 7:37 (176).  Overall pace was 7:38, maximum heart rate was 177, average 167.  I was thinking just yesterday that I needed to do a lot more miles over 170 bpm, so there you go.

Comments
From Tom K on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:48:15 from 73.27.178.76

You nailed it. Excellent.

From Yasir on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:14:44 from 99.20.240.157

you are turning on the heat just at the right time. I'm glad you are on fire while remaining healthy watch out Boston.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 19:21:26 from 104.51.208.13

How are you nailing all these runs with such little recovery / in the humidity / after a 30-miler? If you get a good, effective taper this is going to be a special race.

From flatlander on Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:34:05 from 76.31.29.220

Thanks guys. It was a good week, still healthy, though I am doing my best to change that.

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