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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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Thu, Jul 14, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
9.22	0.00	5.00	0.00	14.22

79F, 87%, SSW 4 mph. Pretty good running weather, didn't bother me as much as it has recently. I started out with 6 LHR miles, average pace 9:52. When I hit that on the slow miles, I figured I might have a chance at a re-do of Tuesday's run. I ran 5 tempo miles as follows: 7:29 (155), 7:10 (167), 7:18 (173), 7:17 (174) and 7:13 (181), average pace 7:17, so still not 7:15 or 7:10, but I decided to take it. I then ran 3 more miles slightly faster than LHR pace, about 9:15 to 9:30 per mile, decided it felt like the Last 10K Death March (have to practice everything, right?). All in, 14.22 miles in 2:06:39, average pace 8:54 per mile. I took one of those last miles around the back lake in our neighborhood, which was a nice break from the road. These are man-made lakes. My neighbor is the chief lieutenant at a big equipment dealership. I told him these are Caterpillar lakes, not lakes that God created. Now he calls himself the Caterpillar god. Sigh.

Comments

From Stephen on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 14:05:50 from 204.182.3.237

We had great weather here too. But I missed out because of a sharp pain in my knee.

You had a lot of great miles today.

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 14:32:25 from 174.70.177.86

Wow, great miles and nice tempo. After running through that kind of soup you are going to be amazingly fast come fall temps and some dry air!

From I Just Run on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 16:06:00 from 67.79.11.242

Here's a good article about running in the heat:

http://www.over40runner.com/info/RunningInTheHeat.html

From Kelli on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 16:15:07 from 71.219.75.108

Caterpillar God? I like it. Even the man made stuff is better than asphalt, or so they say! All I have really noticed is how much slower I run on trails (whether they are man made horse trails or not!)

Look at your miles this week!!! And you were giving me flak! And your 5 mile tempo just kicked the trash of my 4 mile tempo. NICE!!! And in the heat to beat.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 21:19:16 from 66.137.82.63

Wow, that's a great tempo in those conditions. Seems like you are improving, gonna be fun when the temps drop.

From flatlander on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 23:41:57 from 76.31.26.153

Stephen, thanks, it was a good day, I take 'em when they come.

IJR and April, thanks for your references today on heat training. It is an interesting topic to be sure.

Kelli, do not be impressed by my miles. They are almost all slow, very different than most runners on the blog. As for lakes, our Caterpillar lakes really aren't bad. They draw birds and fish and they keep things green, quite pretty actually, especially on the slow part of the run.

Joe, I hope so. I usually get a boost when temperatures drop, but it doesn't happen immediately for me, don't know why. I should just forego October marathons and go straight to November, but St. George is too much fun to miss.

From Kelli on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 23:26:33 from 71.219.99.3

That just shows you are smart (at least in my book!) 90% slow allows you to really kill the speed. I believe in it whole heartedly.

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