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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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75F, 97% (73 DP) and calm.  Huge thunderstorm here last night and the pavement was still boiling off this morning.  Other than the 10 for Texas run last fall in similar conditions, this was probably the warmest run I have had.  Out the door at 4:15 a.m. for 20, thinking I would try to hold it at 9 flat.  Last Saturday, first day out for a longer run, was 9:19.  This morning I got my first mile at 9:24, caught the 9:00 guy at mile 6 then everything else through mile 11 was 9:00 or below.  At this point I was suffering in the heat and decided to do 16 instead of 20, so as a result I picked up the pace -- it actually felt good for a while, then things got really grim:  Last 5 were 8:53, 8:42, 8:36, 8:19, stumbling in for mile 16 at 8:27.  Pretty beat but I recovered quickly throughout the day, foot feels OK and groin pull is gone.  Overall 8:52 average.  161 bpm and 186 max.  Same heart rate as last Saturday, but 27 seconds per mile faster, which confirms the LHR progression I was seeing this week. I have been taking my heart rate up regularly when not doing LHR runs and it feels like the right thing to do.  It isn't hard to do in the heat anyway.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 14:37:29 from 168.215.171.129

Good to see you back! Looks like some good improvement recently after the time off. Is summer over yet?

From Tom K on Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 15:33:47 from 174.58.4.250

"75F, 97% (73 DP) and calm." Those are some bad numbers. It reads like the beginning of a runner's horror story.

From I Just Run on Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 07:37:07 from 67.79.11.242

It pained me to read the first sentence but I forced myself through it and was happy with the ending of the story! :-)

From flatlander on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 13:34:20 from 76.31.9.237

Thanks guys. Tom, I hit 76 DP on July 15, might be my highest yet, though if we have some 80+ mornings here it might go higher depending on the humidity of course.

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