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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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Mon, Feb 14, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.21	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.21

43º, 100% humidity, calm and foggy. But the stars were out, very nice running weather. It was almost like spring was in the air, very heavy and full of woodsy smells. Pretty good running weather, wore short sleeves and regular hat. It's going to be warm like thsi for at least a week, maybe it never will return to the 20s like last week. I checked my old blog entries and it looks like a total of 14 days below 30º F so far this year, pretty much a record for these parts. Must be some sort of a running accomlishment? Most years it is 2 or 3 days all winter, some years it doesn't even come close to that.

I ran 10.21 miles in 1:44:08, average pace 10:12 per mile, low heart rate and regular shoes. The heart rate monitor went out after about 5 miles so I just held the same pace, probably let my heart rate drift up too much but it still isn't warm enough for me to sweat at low effort, so no accurate read-out. I would have thought it would be better at these tempertures, hopefully I don't have mechanical issues with the Garmin.

Absolutely no issues with my Achilles and heel today, but I think I am going to stay in regular shoes for the week. When I wear them too much I start to get a little bit knee pain and other aches and pains, but I think it's OK for one week.

Comments

From I Just Run on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:16:14 from 67.79.11.242

I had about the same weather conditions except the fog was really thick and I couldn't see any stars. I felt like I was swimming and not running. Hey...I was wondering when and where your next race will be?

From derhammer on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:26:50 from 192.156.110.33

Happy to hear your heel is not giving you anymore grief. In the not too soon future we will be blogging about how hot it is. Let's enjoy this now. :-)

From Rye on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 17:03:16 from 168.103.137.186

Flat....what time do you start your runs? Nice job

From flatlander on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:38:34 from 198.207.244.102

IJR, it is a half marathon in Beaumont ("Gusher") on March 12, so a little over 3 weeks from now.

DH, tell me about it. Today was 20 degrees above normal, exactly the opposite of last week.

Rye, they have been all over the map lately. Ideal is 5:15 to 5:30 but sometimes earlier and sometimes much later.

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