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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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Fri, Nov 11, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.09	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.09

36F, 96%, clear and calm, nearly a full moon. Ran 12.09 miles in 1:55:22, average pace 9:33 per mile. It was a great morning for running, but it did require long sleeves and gloves. It seems like I am starting to get some LHR fitness back, will be interesting early next week when the lows are in the 50s to see if these times hold. If they don't, then the improvement is just temperature-related, although I wouldn't have thought there is much of that going on between the mid-40s (like yesterday) and the mid-30s (like today).

I was checking out some running stuff on the web and figured out who the mystery lady in the jeep is, the one who beat me by a minute at my last 5K. I have been telling everybody I got beat by a 60-year old woman because that's how old she looked. Well, it turns out she is 60, and she holds the world record in the 5K for 60-year old women. Aside from the world record thing, which is pretty cool all by itself, I think it must be an important talent to be able to correctly guess women's ages. In this internet age there has to be a way to make money off of this stuff. But I must say there seems to be little upside in walking up to strange women and guessing their age out loud.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:01:03 from 74.196.65.182

I actually feel like I improve a little from mid 40s to mid 30s, but could be my imagination.

To confirm your age-guessing talent, I recommend going up to random women and give them your best guess of how old they are. Then post about your experiences here.

From JG on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 13:07:17 from 71.59.27.33

Nice run! I actually prefer 50 mid 30's, 40's make me happiest! I agree with Joe, I would love to hear about your experiences on guessing random women's age! I always subtract 10 years, so internally I know if I am guessing accurately.

From Steam8 on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 14:38:38 from 166.70.55.77

Gotta feel good to have 12 done! I wish I was up to running 12 on my long runs! Funny about your mystery lady! ha!

From I Just Run on Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 14:57:25 from 67.79.11.242

When I went out to run this morning I was thinking..."wow, wouldn't this be a great morning to run" with the full moon you could see as if it were daytime!

If I had the talent of guessing women's ages I think I would want the ability to consistantly guess them three years younger than their real age...just sounds much safer to me :-)

Good run again, You're making me tire just reading about all your milage!

From Rye on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:10:32 from 75.174.19.85

A model of consistency! Try Slowjoe's theory....I'm guessing that might be harder on you than telling people what you do for a living......on second thought...no

From flatlander on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 13:03:11 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, I certainly need something to post about, other than recording yet another slow run.

JG, to make it really interesting, you have to be willing to state the real age. But if you are going to do that, you also have to be fast, luckily you are.

Steam, sorry about the flu at your house. You will be logging some longer runs very soon I think.

Rye, that sounds like a marvelous plan: "Hi, my name is Flatlander, I'm a lawyer, you are 63, right?" When I played basketball my coach used to tell me I had a quick first step, might be needing that.

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