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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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Went to a performance lab to get tested, ran about 30 minutes on the TM, to exhaustion.  I'm calling it 3 miles, top speed was 8.5 mph.  At the end they started increasing the incline until my legs turned to cement.  Top heart rate was 182, the test didn't last long enough to really max out the heart rate, as a result I didn't get a true VO2 max.  The last reading was in the high 40s, but my actual is probably higher than that.  Overall I was disappointed in the feedback I got.  My main goal was to get a fat/glycogen ratio breakdown at each heart rate level.  Turns out they were measuring something called RER (respiratory exchange ratio).  I don't know anything about it other than that, don't know if it is an estimate or a true measurement.  All I know is that the ratio sits at .71 at rest, is at .75 (15.6% carbs, 84.4% fats) at 120 bpm, .80 (1/3 carbs, 2/3 fat) at 130 bpm, .85 (50/50) at 157 bpm.  One way of reading it is that I can run at any speed I want under GMP and still burn 1/2 to 2/3 fat.  But in another way it is almost useless.  There is a lot going on between 130 bpm and 145 bpm.  The 130 to 157 bpm is two different worlds, so these numbers have little value for my training.  Still trying to figure things out. 

Comments
From I Just Run on Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 13:37:08 from 67.79.11.242

I went through all of that too but really didn't learn much. Work harder - get fitter. :-) That's what I learned!

From flatlander on Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 17:20:16 from 64.129.54.210

I know, but I have been thinking more about it. There is definitely a pace at which I will be able to best build up long-term endurance. I have the data, but the guys that did the test are not interpreting the data, and I don't know who can. They don't even know what I am talking about, for them it is all about LT and VO2max.

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