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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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Taking the day off, might take a few days off although I feel pretty good.  Now that I have slept on it a couple of nights, still very happy about Saturday's race, but pretty sure there will be better days.  A few wind-up items and then I will put it to bed:

1.   It was only a 2-minute PR but it was significant in a couple of ways.  I moved down one age bracket in the BQ chase, and for women I am now BQ-qualified in the open category (no surgery planned, however).  I also beat my old long-term goal of 3:40.

2.  I put the finisher's medal on a food scale (you can tell that work is busy today).  It weighs 48 ounces, exactly 3 pounds, so they exaggerated when they said it was 5 pounds.  By comparison, however, I weighed last year's medal and it was a mere 30 ounces, so this year is a definite improvement.

3.  Looks like my official finishing place is 39th out of 317, not 37th and not quite a top 10% finish.  I am listed 40th by gun time, but I was 30 seconds late crossing the starting mat so one slower runner is listed ahead of me.  I was the 36th male and second in age group by about 1 minute.  My daughter finished the half 30th overall out of 300, 10th female and first in her age group.

4.  To squelch a nasty rumor started by Burt, I am not making up my spill at mile 16.5.  Here is the photographic evidence, which I think documents a pretty bad owie.  Sorry if anybody is squeamish, but this is not a pretty sport.  (Burt, it's the left leg, and you can tell by the bony knee structure that it is mine.)

Comments(6)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.503.000.000.005.50

39F, 80% humidity, wind NW 5 mph.  Fantastic running weather this morning.  I have been fighting a work schedule and a persistent cold all week, but mostly a creeping lethargy --  I knew I needed to get out for a run today even though I don't have the time.  My wife did the seminary run so I was able to sleep in a little.  Then ran 5.5 miles in 47:52, average pace 8:42 per mile, flat shoes.  Ran first two at low heart rate, 10:03 and 9:29, then 3 at GMP, 8:00, 7:51 and 7:39, then 1/2 cooldown.  Heart rate still a little high, but it felt really good to get some endorphins back into my system.  Still slammed by work but more optimistic now about getting through this rough patch.

I need to make a plan for the year.  Even though I didn't get a 3:30 marathon, I'm thinking I was probably close under better conditions and I should go ahead and target a faster one.  That is the only way I can get better.  It doesn't happen for me if I just go out and run without a plan. 

Comments(6)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.003.000.000.009.00

42F, 61% humidity, wind E 1 mph.  Just another day in paradise.  Worked late last night, got to bed at 1 then met Wade at 6 at the YMCA, the whole group was going 21 as their final long run before the Houston marathon.  Wade only wanted 9 and that was OK with me.  He wanted to do three fast ones, so we started out in the 9:15 to 9:00 range for five, then did three at 8:00 to 7:50 then one cooldown.  Overall 9.00 miles in 1:20:08, average pace 8:56 per mile. I was showing very low heart rates (157, 153 and 146 for the three fast miles), but I don't think that is correct unless I'm a lot better than I was a week ago.  Possible I suppose after running almost nothing this week, but not likely, especially since it went down instead of up.  I felt lousy getting out of bed this morning but much better after I ran.  I should run more often.

Got my work out last night so hopefully things will be a little more reasonable that way and I can get back into a rhythm next week.  It has been a week, time to get going.  I may go back to Argentina a week from tomorrow, so it may be hard to maintain a schedule for a while.

Happy weekend all.

Comments(1)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.506.000.000.0014.50
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