For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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

Sat, Apr 25, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.00

75F, 95%, swirling wind. Heard a little bit of thunder but went out anyway. Quickly saw that was a bad idea, it started raining hard and was coming down in sheets when I finally got back to the house after 2.5, dodging lightning bolts. (Garmin is broken, probably from getting rained on for four hours at Boston, can't get it started no matter what hard reset or soft reset I try.) Shortly after I returned a strong cell came through, 60 or 70 mph winds, so good thing I quit. Retired to the neighborhood gym and ran 7.5 on the TM while my daughter did weights. I started at 6.7 mph and ended up at 9.0 mph for the last half mile. Still feeling good, easing back into a routine. I am very thankful I made it to the starting line healthy and am still healthy.

I did some calculations to see how fast my race would have been on a regular course on a regular day. I compared my starting bib number to my finishing place, corrected for no-shows (about 10%) and reserved bib numbers (about 3%), which gave me an approximate number of runners passed. Then "assigning" myself to a higher corral as if I got a bib number equivalent to the runners I finished with, and based on the qualifying times of those runners based on their corral placement, I probably would have run about 3:22, which is what I thought I might be capable of if everything went well. (The other thing is the course was 100 seconds long, but it is Boston and they get to do that -- measurements weren't that accurate in 1897.)

Next target race is a half marathon in October in Susanville, CA, my wife's home. It has some altitude but is also gradual downhill, which I think makes it somewhat equivalent to a sea-level course for a guy like me going up to altitude. More importantly, the tempertature should be fine. I have some PR-type goals for it, but still honing a training plan. I was planning to go back to Grand Rapids to run the 25K in May, but I think doing that might interrupt training too much.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 07:25:14 from 104.51.208.13

3:22 sounds about right, seems like sound logic.

R.I.P. to your Garmin...

From Tom K on Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 18:30:08 from 174.58.54.215

See, I read this about you running in CA in October, and figured that meant you were not going to be in Savannah in November. But if you are saying you are in, well then cool! Kind of a lot of turns for your standards!

https://youtu.be/B1D3f-45jxs

I don't know why the lumberjack song is on there!

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