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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.250.000.000.0013.25

79F, 88%, S 5 mph.  Felt hot today, maybe because it was.  Mainly though I was hung over from yesterday's run, it took more out of me than I realized.  My legs felt dead and I was getting nowhere trying to run LHR.  Unexpectedly, you need fresh legs to run slow.  So I gave up and sped up and it turned into a progression run.  Felt much better after that.  1st mile was 11:03 (124), last mile 8:22 (161), maxHR 164.  Total 13.25 miles in 2:02:49, average pace 9:16 per mile.  Happy to be done with this one.

Comments
From Smooth on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:05:57 from 67.2.89.58

I am always in awe of your mileage and purposefulness of those miles. WAY to run the *dead* out of the legs and finish so strong! Your stamina is INCREDIBLE!!! SOLID SOLID SOLID training, in the heat to boot! :) EXCELLENT JOB, Mark!

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:43:27 from 132.3.53.68

I hear ya, I started my week with speedwork and have felt wasted on every run since. Someone should do something about this.

From JG on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:55:50 from 71.57.246.108

Nice progression run, great miles in the heat!!

From rockness18 on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 14:30:38 from 75.16.160.226

You're working on both a great week and a great month!

From Dan on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:07:00 from 24.209.83.20

Im always happy to be done with a run :)

From flatlander on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 18:50:00 from 76.31.26.153

Smooth, thanks for the kind words. It is intimidating being on this blog with so many good runners, but it makes me work just a little harder I think.

Joe, I was talking to a guy the other day (he coaches sprinters at Rice) and he was trying to tell me I shouldn't be doing anything long and slow. "Old school." So many theories.

JG, thanks, you know all about the heat.

R18, thanks, glad to see your training shaping up so nicely.

Dan, amen to that.

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