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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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Sat, Apr 30, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.50	5.00	0.00	0.00	15.50

74F, 94%, S 7mph and cloudy, pretty good running weather, other than the temperature, humidity and wind. The goal was to run 10 at GMP + 1, then 10 at GMP. They say if you can run 10, then 8, then 2 at 10K pace with last quarter at 3K pace you are ready. I'm not ready. First 10 went fine, all within a few seconds, + or -, of 8:30, heart rate held at 153 or below, so I was starting to get my hopes up. By then I was back at the house. Stopped for a few seconds to refill my water bottle and wring the sweat out of my hair, realized immediately when I stopped that I was pretty tired and thirsty. I held the pace at 7:30 pretty well at first, started to get my hopes up but then began to fail rapidly. I thought for a while I could only make 4, but decided that no matter what I was going to do 5, because that's where the magic is. Fast miles were 7:32 (159), 7:36 (167) (this is where I lost the possibility of going 10), 7:26 (169), 7:26 (173) and 7:19 (177). Total run was 15.50 miles in 2:07:19, average pace 8:13 per mile. I probably could have made this run with yesterday's temperatures, but no excuses. Six weeks to the marathon, so I'll do two more of these, maybe get 7 or 8 then 10. At least it won't be much hotter than today, so with a little bit of luck I'll get close to that goal. For now though, this pace is difficult.

Comments

From Rye on Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:05:34 from 75.174.90.222

You will love the temps come June in Utah. Great mileage this week. I will be looking for good things from you on the 11th!

From Stephen on Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 13:34:53 from 174.52.135.96

Very nice run at that temperature! You are really doing well.

From derhammer on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 17:19:43 from 70.113.125.159

The weather is a real killer, plus the mileage you have been running, good job really.

From SlowJoe on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 23:53:18 from 184.79.24.255

Well, you're not ready if it's 74 degrees and humid, but Utah won't be that miserable. It's an interesting situation, training in the heat for what is hopefully a much cooler marathon. Keep up the good training.

From I Just Run on Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:33:51 from 67.79.11.242

Keep pounding them out and you'll get there! I think it takes a few weeks for our bodies to get used to this hotter weater and this year it just jumped up really high and quickly.

Does the elevation difference at the Utah marathon have any bearing on performance?

IJR

From flatlander on Mon, May 02, 2011 at 23:26:27 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks all, last year it was low 40s and misting. I can't hope to get that lucky again but almost anything will be an improvement. I checked this out last year, and at the same heart rate I was slower in Houston on a flat course a couple of weeks after UVM than on UVM at altitude. So the very precise scientific rendition is: humidity + heat < altitude + downhill.

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