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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
63.060.002.500.0065.56
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

79F 95%, SW 7 mph.  Back in the soup, 10.00 miles in 1:31:30, 9:09 per mile, 143 bpm, 150 max.  Good overall pace for staying under 150, but I didn't stay under 9:20 for the last mile.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.002.500.0010.00

78F, 100%, W 2 mph.  Ran the first 5 at 8:39/mile, staying under 150 bpm except for the last one.  The goal was to get the starch out of my legs before doing quarter repeats.  Succeeded spectacularly.  10 x 400 with 400 jogging rests as follows:  7:13 (162), 7:04 (161), 7:06 (165), 6:47 (167), 6:53 (169), 6:57 (170), 6:48 (174), 7:05 (175, 7:05 (175) and 7:04 (177).  I was totally wasted at the end, for running at half marathon pace, just a little discouraging.  Doing weights last night might have had something to do with it, and 78F is a lot warmer than 72F.  Overall 10.00 miles in 1:26:27, 8:39 per mile, 152 bpm, 183 max. 

I met a client today I hadn't seen in a while -- he lost 60 pounds doing Cross-Fit.  Suddenly everybody is talking about it.  There is a guy in my neighborhood who has his whole garage lit up at 5 in the morning, with 4 or 5 friends over every day.  They are in there banging around, then every so often somebody pops out in a dead run out to the end of his street and back.  I have to look every time I run past just so I don't get run over.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

77F, 96%, SSW 3 mph. 12.00 miles in 1:51:46, 9:19/mile, 142 bpm, 151 max, last mile 9:28 (150)

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.900.000.000.0011.90

80F, 91%, S 5 mph, brutally hot.  I got in very late from work last night and wasn't going to run at all, or at least a shortened version.  Then I woke up right on schedule, old man style, and had nothing to do but go run -- turned out to be a good run.  My Garmin battery was dead, so I ran by feel and tried to duplicate yesterday's route.  But a loose dog guarding his cul de sac messed me up and I had guessed wrong on the makeup distance when I checked it on the computer.  According to my phone, the whole run was 104 minutes, which puts me at 8:44/mile, plus or minus 5 seconds per mile for rounding error (my phone only reads out minutes).  No heart rate reading, of course.  I took the whole thing as an excuse to run the speed I wanted, but I didn't know until I finished how fast I was going.  I thought it was a little faster than normal, but didn't really expect this much drop, so happy about that.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.600.000.000.006.60

77F, 100%, SSW 5 mph.  Had to hurry today, Garmin out again, ran 6.60 miles at 8:47/mile plus or minus 10 seconds per mile.  No heart rate data.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.060.000.000.0015.06

80F, 98%, SW 4 mph, cloudy and trying to rain.  Pretty oppressive out there.  Wade is out of town, but I drove down to the Y anyway.  Got there at 5:10 and ran 6 before the group started at 6:15, average about 9:20.  Then the group took off, a lot of new runners.  I ran with a regular, Helmut, just following his pace.  He started out in the low 8s but we finished 9 with an 8:31 average.  For the whole run, 15.06 miles in 2:13:29, 8:52 per mile, 150 bpm, 171 max.  Fastest guy in the group ran it at a 7:50 pace, and it was the first time he had ever run that far.  He has been running 20-30 miles per week since the start of the year and has lost 80 pounds, still over 200 pounds.  I don't think I have ever seen a more dramatic example of running against body type. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
63.060.002.500.0065.56
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