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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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Wed, Sep 16, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.00	0.00	3.00	0.00	15.00

75F, 95% (DP 73F), breeze from NE. Woke up very early and worked a while, then went out and ran 10, in very familiar summer conditions. Originally planned to do 5 hard ones, but I knew when I woke up that it wasn't happening today. Pretty wiped out from yesterday's weird long run. Warmed up 2, then 3 miles hard: 7:30 (154), 7:26 (163), 7:19 (170), max HR 174. 1 mile cd, then met Wade for 4 more. Overall 10.0 in 1:23:57, 8:24/mile. Longest stride length today was 1.07 meters, whereas Monday it was 1.14. Cadence today on the fastest mile was 209, compared to 204 on Monday. So short, choppy stride today -- the metrics confirmed how I felt and clearly demonstrated the hazards of running on sore legs.

PM: 5 more downhill on TM, about 8:20 pace.

Comments

From Jason D on Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:04:49 from 139.84.48.251

That's a fast cadence! I think salsa dancing is around 220. Was 209 the average? Mine is pretty high (around 187-190 at 5:45 pace and around 180 at 8:00 pace).

Good miles this week.

From flatlander on Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 08:21:51 from 76.31.29.220

Yep, that cadence is what I refer to as an old-man problem. My leg muscles are simply not as strong anymore, so my body doesn't go as far with each step. I have been trying to work on it with weights, etc., but so far I am just an old guy out there.

From Jason D on Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 19:15:17 from 68.80.27.222

My strides is fairly short too. It opens up of course but I checked and around 9:30 pace it is less than a meter at times. 6:10 pace it opens to 1.4.

A high cadence isn't a bad thing as far as injury prevention goes. It might be a hip extension problem for your stride length. My hips are always tight and I have almost no knee lift. I try to be diligent about stretching but admittedly it's one of the least fun things about this running business.

From flatlander on Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 19:24:48 from 76.31.29.220

That is interesting. I think mine stride length is similar, but even a little shorter than that at similar paces. For instance, my run today was at an 8:32 overall pace, and average stride length was 0.97 meters. I have run as fast as 6:20 to 6:30 on 400 meter repeats (that is about as fast as I can run on level ground) and got all the way to 1.20 meters. Haven't ever recorded one longer than that, though with a downhill race coming up in 3 weeks I might see something longer. My son is a doctor and has counseled me to stretch more, but I am bad at it. I only seem to do it when my back acts up.

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