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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, Jan 26, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.14	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.14

40F, sunny. Got in from Utah late last night, slept in and ran in the sunshine. A very pretty morning. Ran 6.14 miles in 1:00:24, average pace 9:50, no heart rate monitor. Started slow and accelerated gradually throughout the run, slowest split 11:07, fastest 8:59.

When I woke up on Sunday morning after my "back-plant" on Saturday morning in Albuquerque, I could barely move, my body hurt almost everywhere, like I had been in a bad car wreck. So I took yesterday off and the object this morning was to assess the damage. At the beginning it felt like I was coming off my summer 2008 back injury, OK to walk but unable to run. I pushed through and everything in the core area felt better after awhile. My shoulder is apparently injured -- my arm felt like it wanted to be in a sling, but as long as I held my arms high I could run without too much trouble.

Oh my goodness, all the snow in New Mexico and southeastern Utah! Monticello at 7000+ elevation looks polar. The snow is piled 8 to 12 feet alongside the road in town, and the fences outside of town are almost buried. The red rock country is very beautiful covered in a white blanket. My parents who live in the Arizona high country are also buried in the stuff -- the highest mountain in the area got 6 feet of new snow at the top, and there are a couple of feet in town. I think this storm must be some kind of record for that area.

If I still feel good I'll probably return to a regular running schedule tomorrow, and it looks like I can run the half-marathon with all of my siblings this weekend in Arizona, although I will probably be slower than originally planned. I am very thankful to still be on the road. Running is a gift, as they say.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:16:40 from 131.59.200.80

Glad to hear there's no long-term damage from your flat-landing. I did something similar a couple years ago (though not on ice), but going down a slide while holding my daughter (who was 1 at the time). The slide was high up off the ground and I landed squarely on my back. She ran off and played while I writhed around for a couple minutes. Would have been funny to watch, I'm sure.

Good luck on your half.

From jasro on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:34:55 from 64.255.180.189

Yikes, sorry to hear about the setback. (No pun intended). I'm glad to hear it's not too serious. Don't rush the recovery.

From flatlander on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 23:42:20 from 76.31.26.153

Slow, thanks, too bad our "calisthentics" aren't on youtube somewhere. My kids would love to see that, I bet yours would too.

Jasro, thanks for the wishes, and good pun!

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