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Houston Marathon

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Location:

Laredo,TX,USA

Member Since:

Nov 28, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Records:

Rice Invitational 1999 5k 15:08

UTSA Invitational 8k 24:54

Guajolote 10k 1999 31:16

3M Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:09:18

~~La Salle Chicago Marathon 2006 2:31:23~~

~~Eugene Marathon 2010 2:30:48~~

Boston Marathon 2011 2:28:01

Marathons:

2005 Austin Motorola Marathon 2:39:16

2006 Austin Freescale Marathon 2:32:32

2006 Chicago Marathon 2:31:23

2007 Greenbay Cellcom Marathon 2:32:39

2007 Fiesta Marathon 2:39:41

2008 Rock and Roll Marathon 2:45:20

2010 Little Rock Marathon March 7 2:33:59

2010 Eugene Marathon May 2 2:30:48

2010 San Antonio Rock and Roll Marathon Nov 14 2:36:57

2010 Fiesta Marathon McAllen, Texas Dec 12 2:39:29

2011 Boston Marathon April 18 2:28:01

2011 Fiesta Marathon McAllen, Texas Dec 11 2:40:18

2012 Houston Marathon Houston, Texas January 15 2:39:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

~~Sub 1:10 for Half Marathon and~~ ~~Sub 2:30 for marathon~~

3M Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:09:18

Up Next

~~IBM 3M Half Marathon~~ ~~1/24/10~~

Long-Term Running Goals:

I want to accomplish my short term goals first... Once I do that, I will have an idea of what to expect long term... 44 yrs old now and since I've been injured free for 1 month I am jumping back on marathon training. Any recommendations for a good marathon in December 2021? What is your recommendation?

Personal:

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Totals

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
32.00	26.20	0.00	0.00	58.20

Sun, Jan 15, 2012

Race: Houston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 02:39:16, Place overall: 45, Place in age division: 7

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	26.20	0.00	0.00	26.20

Houston Marathon Summary:

Things did not go my way this weekend... I lost my contact lens on Friday and I didn't have an extra lens. It made things difficult the whole entire weekend especially in the marathon. Slept at 10:00pm on Saturday and woke up at 3:30 am yea I couldn't go back to sleep. We left the hotel at 5:00 am and dropped off our bags at 6:20 we left to our corrals right after. My goal was to go 2:28 for the whole distance.

Here are my 5k splits for the marathon
5k 17:38 5:41 pace
10k 17:40 5:41 pace
15k 17:34 5:41 pace
20k 17:53 5:42 pace
25k 18:27 5:45 pace this is where I just wanted to get off the course my legs felt heavy my breathing and upper body were fine but my lower body was toasted. One thing I did not like about Houston is running on the Crete it pretty much destroyed my legs it's a nice course and fast but if you can't handle the Crete forget it!

30k 19:14 5:49 pace get me out of here!

35k 19:32 5:53 pace and let the passing game begin

40k 21:11 about 15 runners passed me including women haha I got chicked

2k 10:07 I was done already!

Mile by mile splits

5:44
5:36
5:40
5:36
5:42
5:35
5:40
5:38
5:38
5:40
5:40
5:46
5:49
5:47
5:57
6:00
6:00
6:08
6:07
6:22
6:21
6:24
6:37
6:43
7:01
7:35

A) felt like i was losing my balance I was picking up my legs higher than usual because I was afraid of stepping on something (missing a contact made me feel unbalance)

B) didn't do any marathon specific work just ran single runs in the 90's for 8 weeks

C) I'm fine it's a perfect setup for boston gotta work on my tempos and thresholds!

That's how the cookie crumbled!

Here is my heart rate for the McAllen Marathon that I used as a training on Dec 11, 2011

Here is the one from Houston Marathon Jan 15, 2012 almost a month from McAllen I should have been able to run 5:38-5:40, but the concrete in Houston trashed my legs by mile 12. I posted the comparison because everyone asked me why didn't I run between 2:28-2:34. So I decided to post my heart rate of the two marathon in less than 34 days, I couldn't have been glycogen depleted by 12 miles, I should've DNF, but I've never dropped out of a race so I decided to finish it.

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Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
32.00	26.20	0.00	0.00	58.20

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