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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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Tue, Apr 05, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.85	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.85

40F, 60%, NW 3 mph. Yesterday there was a hot, 35 mph wind all day, which contributed to my treadmill decision last night. Today I got up on time but didn't really know what to do. Looked at the computer and it showed 40F outside, almost drove me to the TM again since I had no long-sleeves or gloves, but decided not to waste the day and I'm glad I didn't. I ran outside and it was magical. With low humidity it wasn't cold, just ran at low heart rate and explored. Lots of hills, since this hotel is in the Texas hill country, but I just went up and down for over two hours. Kept a very low heart rate the whole time (less than 125) except for a few of the steeper hills. All of my splits were in the 10:10 to 10:30 range, very slow but got the job done. Back in Houston now. We have cooler temperatures here in the morning, then back to 70+ for the remainder of the week at least, probably longer. Hopefully I can get a good run in the morning since it may be my last chance for a while.

Comments

From Rye on Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 22:02:01 from 71.209.6.105

Great run. Don't you just love hills some days! Somebody mentioned on the blog that we (runners) need to think about wind as a great workout, without the cost of a parachute...

From Dan on Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 22:34:58 from 24.209.83.20

Nice work - gotta love getting away from those tread mills!

From Kelli on Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 22:59:12 from 71.219.97.85

Crazy weather everywhere. I would like some 70's for longer than a day!!!!

Nice run, that is impressive that you kept your heart rate so low. Mine goes crazy!!!

From Stephen on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 00:45:32 from 174.52.135.96

I love Austin and I love the girl I found there.

From flatlander on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:06:43 from 76.31.26.153

Rye, never liked the wind, used to have it all the time in high school. You're right though, it probably would have been good for me.

Dan, the contrast between TM the night before and the morning run outside couldn't have been greater.

Kelli, you gave me an idea. If they had low heart rate marathons I might actually become competitive. Now that they have chip timing it would be a short step to run everybody's heart rate into a central computer and deliver a harmless but startling electric shock every time somebody tried to run faster.

Stephen, I love him too, sometimes. But mostly I wish he would just go to college and get started on his life.

From Kelli on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:16:58 from 71.219.97.85

OH MAN, I would be in some serious pain from the electrical shocks! Mine is more in the 150 range, but that is just on your average day!!! Who knows where it would be during a marathon, especially at the start----i do not find any kind of groove for about 6-7 miles.

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