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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

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.01

36F, 93% humidity, calm and clear as a bell. Pretty much perfect out there this morning. When I saw the temperature I bundled up, but never noticed the cold. Still can't believe we are getting these temperatures in mid-March. Hopefully some of this will hold until tomorrow morning. 60 was predicted yesterday, 53 being predicted this morning. 50 would be about perfect and remove all excuses. I was going to go 10 this morning but then I remembered something about never going over 8 when you are getting ready for a race so I cut it short. Hasn't been much of a taper this week but at least I gave it a nod. Back to China on Monday morning, so I will get almost no running done there unless I can make myself do treadmill. But first, off to Beaumont tonight for the big race tomorrow. (Actually a pretty small race but you know what I mean.)

I registered for UVM yesterday, back to Utah for more high altitude punishment. I got a hotel room in Midvale but it doesn't look like it is much of an advantage, it appears to be 10 miles from the start line. When a race starts at 6:00 there are few alternatives to a very early alarm clock.

Comments

From derhammer on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:29:42 from 63.96.228.68

Good to have a goal to shoot for - what is the course like? It looks like most of the marathons there have plenty of hills and quite a few that are net down hills.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 14:29:40 from 131.59.200.80

Good luck tomorrow!

From I Just Run on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 14:48:39 from 67.79.11.242

The good thing about your trip to China is you will have a new PR and be able to relive and celebrate your success allll the way over there and backkkkk....:) Hope you will be able to write your race report before you leave.

From flatlander on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 16:46:52 from 198.207.244.102

DH, it has a couple of nasty hills early on, which are tempting to take at a fast speed just because you can. But the altitude (6500 on top) kills you if you give in to temptation. After that it is largely downhill until the last 10K, which is essentially level.

Joe, thanks, sorry I've been a bad blogger this week.

IJR, if I get a PR you can bet I'll be telling the flight attendants all about it. There will probably be a body falling out of the plane about Hawaii or so.

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