For Whom the Dogs Bark

May 07, 2024

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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, Jul 15, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

77F, 90% (DP 74F) and calm. More LLHR, abbrevated because of work. 6.0 miles at 10:47/mile, 120 bpm, so pace was 16 seconds faster than yesterday, 48 hours out from last weight session as oppose to 24. Hoping to get some more miles in tonight after things calm down.

After reading Joe's blog today, I realized that my thinking on some of these issues is starting to coalesce around yet another running theory, which this, as the king of slow miles: There is a certain speed at which you can run pretty much as long as you want each day, as many days in a row as you want, at steady-state level. For me that is 122 bpm, right at the halfway point between my HRMax (193) and my resting heart rate (50). Then there is another "cyclical" level, still not at workout speed, at which you can run heavy miles for a while, then you have to back off. For me about 145-160 bpm, basically long-run speed. Then "workouts" are mini-cyclical (for me 165-180 bpm), can't do them more than 2 days in a row, once in a while 3, without taking a good honest rest. I think all three modes have an important role, but fitting them all in without bumping into each other is hard to figure out. It might be impossible. But the conclusion is, it's important to run when you are tired and it's mandatory to rest before you get too tired.

Comments

From I Just Run on Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 07:24:34 from 108.178.73.170

I blink an eye or miss a day on the blog and you run 25-30 miles. You're the MAN Flat!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 17:55:51 from 45.18.50.53

I often get stuck (like right now) trying to have it all, and agree with you that it might be impossible. Periodization seems to be the ticket...

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