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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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Sat, Dec 19, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
15.34	0.00	0.00	0.00	15.34

18F in Salt Lake City.

My son got married here yesterday on Temple Square, wonderful day, topped off with a trip to a Brazilian meat palace in Trolley Square, can't remember the name but we had some nice wind-down time with the two familes, without the honeymooning couple. Too much meat, though, not sure what I was expecting.

So this morning I hit the streets at 6:00. I wasn't quite sure what the conditions would be but I decided to do a tour of SLC. This was a really cheap tour because it was on foot, in the dark and no tour guide. I didn't notice a lot of competition.

I started out at the end of Foothill, at I-80, out the door from our daughter's apartment and headed north, which was mostly downhill. Kind of difficult footing at times because all of the sidewalks aren't clear. About a mile and a half up Foothill I saw a group of women running on the other side of the street. They gradually pulled ahead and turned in front of me heading up Sunnyside. I continued along Foothill until it turned into 500 South, more downhill, past Rice Eccles (go Cougars!), past Trolley Square to State Street, then up State Street to North Temple. I had designs on running up to the Capitol but it was too steep and I didn't want to walk, so I turned around about 2/3 of the way up, back down to N. Temple and out a few more blocks until I had about 7.5 miles in before turning around. Back through the avenues, including a trip up to a small house on M Street that I lived in as a kid when my dad was a graduate student (very steep road, I don't remember it being that steep), past the cemetery and on through the avenues up to the University of Utah. I ran all the way through campus, past a building with some large ground-level windows. I noticed in the reflection that my form is a little better. I finally caught Foothill and took it back home. Not fast at all, average pace about 11 minutes per mile, but OK for a taper week. Ran some final errands, caught the plane and made it home to Houston before midnight.

I enjoyed my time in Utah this week. I enjoyed my son's successful marriage, getting to know his in-laws, catching up with the few relatives I still have in Utah and getting in some runs in a different setting.

Comments

From Mack on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 15:35:26 from 71.111.182.118

Very impressive! It takes a lot of motivation to run that far when you are on the road and out of your regular home routine and full of meat from the night before. It would have been easy to just sleep in or cut back to a short run. Nice job.

Congrats to your son and his new wife.

Good luck in your fast approaching marathon.

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