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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, Aug 15, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

76F, 90% (DP 73F), calm. Intended to do only 10 or 15, but was feeling good and pushed through to the standard long-run distance. 20.0 miles in 2:49:29, 8:28/mile, 151 bpm average heart rate, 167 max. Legs were kind of sore and choppy, but heart rate stayed quite low throughout. The lower dew point seemed to help a lot.

Comments

From Bob on Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:55:20 from 98.222.16.15

Solid run! Do you put in a 20 every week usually? How long have you been doing that?

From Dan on Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 15:52:36 from 108.59.8.208

I agree... I click Flat and its a 20. Well done!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 16:24:44 from 45.18.50.53

Another outstanding session of poor man's altitude training!

From Yasir on Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:29:16 from 99.20.240.157

wow and well done sir out for 10 back with a 20 just like that wow.

From flatlander on Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:56:01 from 76.31.29.220

Thanks all. Hope your summer is just as hot as mine!

Bob, 20-miler on Saturdays is kind of a staple, I guess. I don't do it all the time, but if I am in a sustaining or building mode I try to get it in most weeks when schedule permits. After a while it isn't that big of a deal, especially at the speeds I run.

Joe, question for you. Somebody else was saying the same thing about high-dewpoint running, that it is somewhat analagous to running at altitude. I think the explanation I heard was that your heart pumps more blood to the skin for cooling purposes, so you make more blood for the core, which in effect gives you more red blood cells. Is that it?

From SlowJoe on Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:15:40 from 12.182.148.249

Flat - that sounds like a legitimate explanation. In my simple mind I always thought of it (both altitude and heat/humidity) as performing with less oxygen for your muscles - either because there is less in the air to feed it (altitude) or because there is less blood available period (heat) because it's other places than your legs for cooling. So your body learns to cope with less oxygenated blood in both cases. But actually creating more red blood cells seems logical.

To be honest, I have never noticed much, if any, improvement over the summer, no matter how hard I work, but that might just be my pessimism shining through.

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