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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%, clear and calm. Didn't run yesterday because of an early work meeting.  If I don't do it in the morning, I don't do it.  But didn't mind the day off because my old back injury seems to have returned.  I am smarter about it, though, immediately went into an intense stretching regime and took ibuprofen -- a lot of the pain comes from swelling, not from actual injury.  Took 400 mg last night and 200 mg this morning at 4:30.  Out the door at 5:00, prepared to turn back if my back was off.  But there wasn't even a twinge, so I knew it was back to plan A, which was to run 24.  My marathon is only 4 weeks out, so time to get in some good long runs.

I thought I could do 9s OK, even though I have had trouble with that pace all summer on long runs.  It is a little cooler now and I am a little better conditioned.  The first mile came in at 9:18, the second at 8:42 and I knew I would probably do better than 9s.  Heart rate stayed low, I was not over 150 bpm until mile 18.  This run was textbook long and slow.  Finished off a little faster, last mile was 8:25, 161 bpm.  Average 146 bpm, max 163, never worked very hard.  Altogether 24.0 miles in 3:30:22, 8:46/mile.  Happy that I can run this well in relatively warm conditions.  I took one drink at 8 miles and nothing the rest of the way, I guess that makes me a desert tortoise.

Got back to the house and cracked two eggs for breakfast, both doubles.

My son the bodybuilder, who eats more eggs than Gaston, is insanely jealous.  He has only gotten one double in his lifetime.  It's one of those days.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 09:13:56 from 104.51.208.13

What a run! With a 24-miler like that, maybe that's all the LRs you'll need.

I have never seen a double egg in my life...I think it's time to go buy some lottery tickets.

From SonofaFlatlander on Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 00:49:11 from 199.87.130.129

Time to retire after a day like that.

From Rye on Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 07:15:59 from 166.137.246.116

The Stars have aligned perfectly. Super fun. Great confidence booster for you as well. Man, what are the odds of that?

From Bob on Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:32:38 from 98.222.16.15

How cool is that?! Ahem, where's the bacon?

From MarkS on Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 15:25:24 from 58.91.12.4

WoW!

I have never even heard of a double before.

It looks like they really DO do things in Texas in a big way.

From flatlander on Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:44:47 from 76.31.29.220

Thanks Joe, just starting to realize what a momentous event this was. Peyton got his TD record last night and that is good for him I guess, but I wouldn't trade this one for anything.

Clint, if only.

Rye, about the same as getting my hair back I think.

Bob, hey thanks! Knew I had forgotten something.

Mark, yes sir. I would like to meet the hen that did this. My son and I were thinking that it is probably the same hen and we could buy it cheap from the unsuspecting chicken farmer.

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