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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
6.950.003.100.0010.05

80F, 85%, SW 3 mph.  I felt no wind out there, felt very humid even though the RH reading was lower than yesterday.  Ran 10.05 miles in 1:32:07, average pace 9:10 per mile.  Started again with 5 LHR, average pace 10:20 (not good), followed by 5 x 1000 at tempo pace:  7:13 (166), 7:05 (172), 6:49 (178), 7:00 (183) and 6:56 (185), average 7:01, maxHR 192 in the last interval, just 1 bpm below the highest I have recorded, which was in a 5-mile race at 77F last Thanksgiving day.  Just went back and read that entry again, conditions and HR readouts were almost identical to this morning, except no sun, no race and no Kate -- so not that identical.  I was running faster today, but they were intervals, not a sustained push.  Off to Peru today for meetings in the morning, then to Utah on Friday for the Kings Peak adventure on Saturday.  Don't know if I will run again before Saturday.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:42:52 from 132.3.53.68

Whew, that humidity is brutal at 80 degrees; I could almost feel the sweltering effect from here.

Have a nice trip!

From Stephen on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:46:54 from 204.182.3.236

When you said August was a traveling month, you weren't kidding. I'm impressed with your mileage even with the traveling.

From I Just Run on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:13:21 from 67.79.11.242

You seem to have been running a lot of interval stuff lately. You know I peaked my HR yesterday while biking. It seems similar to your HR peak. I've noticed when I bike my HR takes huge swings from high to low (as I pedal hard and as I pedal lightly). It can swing from 110 to 175 in just a couple of minutes. Maybe it's like you running your intervals...slow, fast, slow, fast..? I'm not sure what we can do with this tidbit of information...but it's and interesting comparison.

Hope you have a successful trip!

From Dan on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 18:38:53 from 24.209.83.20

Tough running, feel for you. Be safe travelling!

From Kelli on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 22:42:05 from 71.219.67.82

Peru and then Utah....that is quite the change! Have fun on King's Peak, watch out for bears or moose or mountain lions or squirrels....whatever runs rampant there!

Great workout. I just do not know about all of that HR stuff, it would be interesting to be able to see it and look back on it like you do.

From Steam8 on Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 21:13:09 from 166.70.55.77

Sounds like a fun week! It is pretty HOT here right now... nothing you aren't used to though!

From baldnspicy on Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 23:00:56 from 87.225.253.174

I've been tracking my HR as well, but I don't know what to make of it. I figure my Garmin tracks it so I might as well capture the data and see if it makes sense over time.

I have noticed that my HR is higher for a certain pace now during my recovery. I expect it to go down over time showing better fitness.

That's some high HR though. I haven't gotten over 178. I think I just wimp out before it goes any higher. :-)

From Kelli on Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 19:23:11 from 71.219.67.82

I have reached 190+ in SPIN class (the only time I take my hear rate!) Apparently I better not work so hard, but I keep thinking if I spin faster class will be over!

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