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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
4.110.000.000.004.11

79F, 97%, S 6 mph.  My back felt stiff and sore when I woke up, with all of the sessions yesterday, but it held up pretty well during this run, the last mile was 8:03.  Overall 4.11 miles in 34:46, 8:27/mile, 154 bpm, 174 bpm max.  My heart rate behaved like this was a tempo run, and it was far from it.  Partly the heat, as I said yesterday, but that isn't all of it.  I have a "sinking" feeling that I am a couple of stones heavier.  There was a scale in my hotel room in Miami last week, which registered me at 163.  But I blithely attributed that to different equipment, now I'm not so sure.  But at least I am running a little, even though it isn't very comfortable.  Had to stop for about 30 seconds at one point to fix my Garmin, and it was painful to start again.  Another weird thing -- as I was eating breakfast I was watching my heart rate come down.  It paused for about 10 minutes in the 125 bpm range before heading on down, have no idea what that is all about.  Maybe I have the vapors.

Comments
From allie on Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:19:17 from 161.38.218.168

nice to see you are getting some running in, although i'm really sorry about your back being such a bugger.

about the HR behavior -- sasha probably has a very interesting explanation for it.

From Rye on Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 17:08:14 from 174.27.113.79

Nice to see some miles flat.... Maybe it's the fact that I am from Idaho, but the vapors??? Please explain.

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:44:06 from 69.131.141.92

Dang faulty scales! Glad to see you're back in the swing of things and I'm sure those HR numbers will start coming back down again.

From I Just Run on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:37:23 from 67.79.11.242

Can I have a few of your lbs. I've never been able to gain weight.

And, can I ask why you are wearing your HR monitor while eating breakfast? Should I mention obsession? :-)

From flatlander on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:22:05 from 76.31.26.153

allie, sorry it is taking so long to reply, hope your preparation is going well for Des News.

Rye, you need to read more 19th century romance novels. The "vapors" is a term describing rich women who have fainted from overexcitement, such as when the sheriff's wife gets a new petticoat that is a bit scandalous.

Joe, still "swinging" in the breeze, I'm afraid. But I am going to get it worked out, I think.

Preston, doesn't everybody?

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