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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
3.490.000.003.006.49

72F, 94% humidity, wind W 6 mph, beautiful morning for running, felt good to get outside.  I ran 6.49 miles in 1:00:59, average overall pace 9:24 per mile, flat shoes.  Started with two low heart rate miles, 11:13, 10:18, then 6 x 800 at 5K pace minus a little bit:  3:35 (7:11), 3:43 (7:26), 3:38 (7:17), 3:36 (7:12), 3:37 (7:15), 3:38 (7:17).  400 cool down between intervals and then jogged it in.  Funny thing is I never saw my heart rate above 170 and it never averaged higher than 164 for any inteval, even though I felt pretty tired.  I was watching it on the last one and for a while I thought it was broken, the readout wouldn't move off of 150.  Finally started to move but I am suspicious I wasn't getting accurate readings, as I felt like I was working pretty hard.  Anyway, it felt good to air it out, even though I was feeling the humidity by the end.  I met another woman out there who I have seen from time to time.  She stopped me during a rest interval and wondered what the heck I was doing.  I meet more people running than doing anything else, it seems.  Pretty soon I'll have more friends than Burt. . . . nah . . . but Burt maybe you can come up with a nickname for her?

Comments
From Smooth on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:51:07 from 174.23.172.155

Glad you were able To get out for some speedy intervals. Very NICE splits! I'd melt in that humidity! Yep, runners are friendly bunch! :) :) :)

From RivertonPaul on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 13:54:31 from 67.42.27.114

I think not having to deal with the humidity will offset altitude for you.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 23:14:19 from 204.133.180.90

Yeah, great workout there in the Houston goo. That's a lot of 5k work, very impressive.

From Rye on Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:11:33 from 174.27.38.153

Great workout..It is good to have those kind of workouts in the bank.

From flatlander on Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:13:52 from 75.223.125.28

Thanks all, hope you are having a great weekend.

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