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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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69F, 99% (68F DP), calm.  Unbelievably cool morning for this time of year -- the first two weeks of August are the hottest of the year, should have been 10 degrees warmer today.  Didn't argue, just tried to make the most of it.  Got a late start, 5:35 and cooked a little bit when the sun came up after mile 8 with no cloud protection, but not too bad.  Ran 20.00 miles in 2:52:45, 8:38/mile, 156 bpm average, 181 high.  My overall pace was only 1 second off the old BQ standard for my age group, before they tightened it down by 6 minutes, so I was working it pretty good.  Average heart rate was about the same as last week, though the high end was significantly higher today, 181 bpm ompared to 169 last week.  Started out at 9:42 but caught the 9:00 guy at 4 miles, the 8:50 guy at 8 miles and the 8:45 guy at 11 miles.   Biggest difference was the DP:  79 last week compared to 68 today, with the result that I ran 35 seconds per mile faster for the full 20, compared to running only 16 last week.  Nauseous at the end, so I guess I ran hard enough.  In fact, I probably cannibalized Monday and Tuesday but that isn't too important so long as I don't come up with an injury.  I did cramp up some after finishing, first cramps I have had in a while.  This is the best week I have had in a very long time.  If dropping 10 degrees makes that much difference I wonder what the boost would be at race temperatures in low 50s/upper 40s.  Seems like it should be worth another 30 seconds/mile but no way of really knowing.

Comments
From Tom K on Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 17:18:39 from 71.203.20.181

80 FOR THE WEEK! WELCOME BACK!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 15:31:59 from 104.51.208.13

Great job - I don't know what was going on this weekend but I'll take more of it, please. Much more improvement to come for you on weather alone, not to mention 80 mile weeks.

From Yasir on Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 19:24:58 from 99.20.240.112

what a 20 miler that 3:30 is getting closer.

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