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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

Sat, Sep 27, 2014

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

71F, 85% (67 DP) and calm. Similar to yesterday. Ran 20 this time, 2:58:50, 8:57/mile, 146 bpm, 162 max. Didn't hit 150 bpm until mile 14, didn't hit 151 until mile 16. At that point I was running a straight 9s but sped up in the last 4 by about 15-20 seconds/mile.

I was planning to do 24 today but was starting to fade pretty fast, so saved it for another day. I'm learning. I really believe that running an honest number of close-to-marathon long runs would be helpful in developing the needed reserves for the real race. I know that is by no means a unanimous viewpoint in the running community, but I was thinking this morning that maybe a bonk isn't purely a muscle mass versus weight thing like many researchers say, i.e., at a certain distance you use up all the glycogen in your muscles and at that point you can't really run much further, at least not with any resemblance of normal speed. Maybe you can actually beat it by training around it? The extra 3 or 4 miles is a real mental adjustment that I haven't fully made yet. I'm pretty much a 20 and done guy, although this morning pulling the plug was the right thing to do. But I will say, I don't think those types of distances bring much benefit to shorter racing distances, there are better ways to train.

A bunch of running friends from the days when I used to run out of the Y were out in my neighborhood this morning. Met two different groups of them and they were both yelling my name and congratulating me for getting in to Boston. Honestly, people really look that up?

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 16:18:02 from 107.77.80.96

Hey, congrats on getting into Boston!

Good thoughts on training. Out of my 7 marathons, I've run exactly one even-split (no negative splits) where I felt no bonk. For that one neither my mileage nor long runs were exceptional in any way, but I did my workouts at the end of long runs. So that is my experiment this time around... I like your theory too though; I haven't gone past 22 in a training run.

From Derunzo on Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 17:13:02 from 24.218.179.128

Nice run..... Boston baby!

From Yasir on Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 13:52:15 from 99.20.240.112

Congrats Happy for you.

From I Just Run on Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:20:00 from 67.79.11.242

Congratulations on getting into Boston...Just in case I haven't already congratulated you!

I agree with Joe on the training notes! My best marathon I ran a huge negative split. I should go back and try and duplicate that effort and training.

From I Just Run on Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:24:36 from 67.79.11.242

I went back and looked, my longest mileage was weeks 2,3,4 out from the marathon with more speed stuff before that.

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