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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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44F, 65%, N 17-24, wind chill 36F.  Trying to get a little sympathy on the wind chill but I know it is hopeless with all the Utah runners on this blog.  At least my son thought it was cold.  16F and then we could have a conversation.  I hate running in the dark when it is either raining or blowing; at least it was dry today.  But when I left my cul de sac and turned into the heavy north wind I immediately gave up on my long slow plans, just wanted to get this one over with.  Plan was to go 12 slow, but I needed to finish early anyway, so I ran a full half (I mean half of a full) at pretty close to marathon pace, at least for my current conditioning.

Splits were 9:19, 8:24, 7:53, 7:51, 7:42, 7:43 (161), 7:41, 7:49, 7:44, 7:53, 7:45, 7:46, 7:49 then burned in the stub split at a blistering 8:11 (172) pace.  Legs were trashed but I didn't feel too tired, exactly what I would expect after doing a lot of base work and no speed work.  Hopefully the legs will come back.  If they do maybe I can break 1:30 this year, basically a full minute per mile faster than today..  Today was 13.11 miles in 1:44:11, average pace 7:57 per mile.

Comments
From I Just Run on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 17:46:01 from 67.79.11.242

Ha ha, I sympathize with you, I postponed my tempo run this morning and am going to do it this afternoon when the wind quits blowing. I don't like the dark, wet, cold combination either. Good run even with the uncomfortable conditions!

From SonofaFlatlander on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:21:10 from 99.119.94.30

Not much slower than Gusher 2011

From Dan on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 22:49:53 from 24.209.83.20

13 at MP, nice work. No sympathy for the weather sorry... wind chill -1 here :)

From Steam8 on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 19:44:57 from 166.70.55.77

DANG!!!! NIce run!! No sympathy for the weather here either..sorry! ;)

From Rye on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 20:41:38 from 174.27.113.68

Ahhh you soft Texans....Nice run though.

From Stephen on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 23:36:33 from 71.195.220.45

A half marathon at under 7 minutes/mile would be quite a feat.

From PRE on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 18:29:20 from 99.50.213.11

Good run. Nice pace and miles. WOW...and it was really cold also!!!

From flatlander on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:28:05 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks everybody. No hard feelings about no sympathy. It is now Monday morning and it was 65F at the start of my run today, just unreal.

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