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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, Jun 23, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.84	0.62	0.00	0.00	8.46

71F, 93%, calm and cloudy. Felt great out there this morning, the storm has passed but it isn't hot yet. We got a very good drenching most of the day yesterday, an honest to goodness storm that will go a long way toward alleviating the drought. Ran 6.5 at LHR, 9:56 per mile, then 0.5 transition followed by 1K at 7:04 pace (168 bpm), followed by a 0.84 cooldown to my front door, 8:01 pace; overall 8.46 miles in 1:19:56, average pace 9:27. The tempo interval felt much better today, no disorientation at the end, on the other hand my heart rate was 10 bpm lower. So maybe 7:00 is my tempo pace instead of 6:30 -- at least it was nice dreaming about those faster splits. Need to find a pace I can do two or three times a week for 5 repeats without trashing my legs. Last cycle I was running the tempos too slow and ended up with not enough speed on race day.

Comments

From Huans32 on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:31 from 138.64.8.51

Great run and in the nicer temps. I had about the same temps and thought it was a bit hot. And here you are running in it thinking its cool.:) What training program are you following??

From I Just Run on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:01:27 from 67.79.11.242

I had the same 71 degrees and very humid weather today but it did feel nice. I was drenched as usual at the end. What's your milage goal now (after the marathon)? What's your next race?

From flatlander on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:47:31 from 198.207.244.102

H32, I am going to try to do as much faster mileage as I can going into St. George, and run slow in between to build up stamina. Trick is figuring out the best mix of fast miles, as in tempos, intervals, sprints, etc.

IJR, good question, hoping to consistently stay over 70 but right now I am having a little trouble maintaining 8 a day. I think it's just hangover from the marathon though. Have you made a decision on TOU? I hope my experience at UVM didn't sour you to the idea, I am not ready to blame it on altitude, at least yet.

From Dan on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 22:44:30 from 24.209.83.20

Nice job. Figuring out the ideal tempo and running paces is not always easy- hopefully that will maximize your training.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:38:41 from 132.3.53.68

Always good when you can run without getting disoriented. Something I haven't always been successful at on every run in the past...

From JG on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 13:24:10 from 74.190.130.251

Excellent run Flat, 7:00 miles are always good & is probably a good tempo pace.

From flatlander on Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:27:53 from 76.31.26.153

Dan, I feel like I don't know enough about the higher heart rate zones. Not sure where the maximum benefit is, so just trying to mix it up and experiment.

Joe, I didn't mean to imply that I knew what I was doing. I have been disoriented for the last 10 years.

JG, yeah, it seemed about right for a tempo pace, I was hoping to get a tempo pace this next round closer to 6:30 but that might be a bit premature for where I am.

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