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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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63F, 100%, calm and cloudy.  It rained a lot yesterday and the system hasn't completely moved through, though it isn't raining anymore.  If things go well time-wise and legs-wise I will do a lot of miles this week.  Today was 23 at 8:57/mile, pretty good run though I don't know if I did it too fast to prevent recovery by tomorrow.

Legs felt good after taking yesterday off, held a sub-9 pace through 12 miles at less than 150 bpm (mile 12:  8:49 (150).  I broke that barrier in mile 13, but held the same pace through the end of the run, breaking 160 bpm only on the last mile.  Last 4 miles were 8:56 (158), 9:00 (159), 8:43 (160) and 8:55 (161).  No trouble holding the pace but legs are sore and not sure if it is sustainable for more of the same as the week wears on.

Comments
From Tom K on Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 13:56:42 from 174.58.4.250

That is some kind of Monday, man! 23 miles?! Good work!

From SlowJoe on Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 07:33:23 from 168.215.171.129

Wow! Great run. Don't think I've ever gone that far on a training run.

From I Just Run on Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:21:40 from 67.79.11.242

Anytime I run that many mile (and it doesn't matter what pace) I need a couple of days to recover. I don't know how you do it!

From Yasir on Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 13:13:56 from 99.20.240.112

Great workout very motivating im trying to add some miles as well great job

From flatlander on Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 15:44:53 from 198.207.244.102

Tom, just making up for a lazy weekend.

Joe, as I've said before, don't be impressed about anything other than my ability to embrace boredom, I run them slow.

Preston, what I can't seem to recover from is weights. I think it is all a matter of what certain muscle groups are used to doing.

Yasir, thanks, I'm too old to run fast, unfortunately.

From derhammer on Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 13:39:34 from 64.245.52.2

What's your secret for staying up all day after a 23 miler in the morning. I don't think I could make it past lunchtime at work - lol!

From flatlander on Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:10:11 from 198.207.244.102

DH, there may have been a mid-day siesta with door locked!

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