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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, Jul 07, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.43	0.00	0.00	0.75	12.18

74F, 91% and calm. There was rain downtown yesterday afternoon, but no sign of it at my house, would really like some rain. Weather was good for running, though. Started with 10 miles LHR, average pace 9:58 per mile, fastest this week so I was happy about that. Then I did 2 sets of 3x200, RI 200 then finish out the mile between sets. Objective was to run these slightly less than 5K speed (6:40). Converted to a mile pace, the 200s came out like this: first set 6:26 (159), 6:14 (160), 6:07 (161); second set 6:08 (164), 5:39 (167) and 6:27 (171). I think the Garmin has measurement problems at these short intervals, would be better to do them on a track with a stopwatch. 200 meters is about .125 miles, and if the Garmin is only taking a reading off the satellite every few seconds, then it can make a big difference if you push the lap button just after the last reading or just before the next one -- that combined with the radius of error (30 feet I think) and you have measurement problems. Anyway, I think the 5:39 and the last 6:27 are both bogus, they didn't feel much different than the others. I am pretty sure most of these were in the 6:10 to 6:15 range. These speeds felt lightning quick but not long enough to create lactate problems. Interestingly my legs felt very invigorated, though they are questioning me now. I don't think I could run a 5-minute mile even if I had the endurance for it, it appears that I simply don't have enough fast-twitch muscles. Anyway, it was fun and probably more valuable than quarter repeats. I think I'll do something like this every 10 days to 2 weeks, maybe a little more frequently closer to races.

Comments

From I Just Run on Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 14:37:43 from 166.137.142.209

Good run...you're sure pounding out the miles in the heat! I like running faster pace runs but don't do them often enough. I think I run too many medium speed runs (too long and not fast enough).

From Dan on Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 22:23:31 from 24.209.83.20

I do striders like that, I think they help reminding your legs that they can run fast. Nice run in the heat.

From JG on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:55:57 from 98.66.194.235

Nice speed work after putting in 10 miles! Great mileage week for you, congrats!!

From flatlander on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 18:52:43 from 76.31.26.153

IJR, I don't really understand the science, but I feel like I progress faster if I don't run too many in-between miles.

Dan, I was surprised they weren't very hard, probably needed to run more of them but I thought 6 at that speed was prudent.

JG, thanks, I'm guessing your heat is about like ours, you just don't complain as much.

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