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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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29F, ran slowly to the neighborhood rec center in the dark and went in, only to find all the ellipticals in use, at 5:20 in the morning.  There is never anybody in there when I run past the place.  I needed to start working on weights anyway, so I just started in.  I had to read the directions on the machines, but after awhile I noticed a pattern:  wipe off with towell, sit down, pick your weight, push or pull about 10 times, get up, wipe off with towell.  Finally an elliptical came free and I casually got on and made it go up and down. Had about a half mile on it before I glanced over at my neighbors' feet on both sides and noticed they were moving the opposide direction.  Sad to say, I was going backwards.  I got off, stretched, got back on and coolly changed directions.  Nobody said a thing, at least while I was there.  I fled into the darkness and ran back home.  My groin pull seemed less actute today while running, so maybe I'll leave them to their machines tomorrow.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:41:21 from 131.59.200.82

That's a funny story. I wouldn't know what to do in a weight room either, but who could predict the machine would allow backwards pedaling? Maybe you were training different muscles going the other way, now you're the wise expert.

From jasro on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:57:24 from 198.50.4.4

lol ... Actually I think most elliptical machines allow for both backwards and forwards pedaling. The backward pedaling works your glutes and upper legs more, while the forward pedaling works your hamstrings and quads and your lower leg muscles. So, no harm done. Glad to see your running again. I hope things are going well.

From Burt on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 17:04:29 from 206.19.214.144

HAHAHA! Funny stuff. I recently saw an internet video of a guy that fell off a treadmill and his pants fell off. He pulled them back up, got up, and for a split second thought about getting back on the treadmill. Then he turned and fled. It was awesome.

From flatlander on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:23:48 from 198.207.244.102

Joe, my son was supposed to help me, but he was nowhere to be found at that hour of the morning.

Jason, I think you just saved my week, thanks for covering for me on that one. Funny thing, it is exactly my glutes and upper legs I want to strengthen in order to get faster, so it appears I may have "stumbled" onto the right formula, I just need to sell the backwards motion a little more.

Burt, believe me, it wouldn't be my first appearance on the internet. My son-in-law, a Canadian with a warped sense of humor, recorded and posted my first attempts at skiing, and I think it got about 4000 hits. I'm hoping to not add to my library.

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