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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 26, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
21.31	0.00	0.00	0.00	21.31

44F, 76% humidity, wind N 9 gusting to 18, rain and temperature dropping. Conditions could hardly be more changed from 24 hours ago. I woke up at 2:30 this morning hardly able to contain my excitement. Tossed and turned for two and a half more hours and finally got up at 5:00 and headed out for my first Black Friday adventure. It was dangerous out there, everybody driving with blank, exhausted stares but highly competitive trying to be first in line at their favorite store. Bad combination. But I won. First in line (open category, not age group, didn't even get chicked, nuthin' but net), in the door at 6:00, got all my stuff and was home by 6:30. Let's just say I am not a deliberate shopper. I should have filed this as a race report.

Oh yeah, long run is today instead of tomorrow, wasn't nearly as excited about that. In fact you could say I had a bad attitude. I bundled up and put on a rain jacket which felt great for half a mile then turned into my own private sauna. Back to the house after a mile to shed the jacket, cold and wet was going to be the way to go. Ran another lap and met my father in law but he had no interest in my plans for the morning, so I was on my own. I hoped to run 20, half at 9:00 pace and half at 8:00 pace. Not even close. If you believe that you improve most on a bad day, then I must have had a great run today. Finished up about five miles in the neighborhood then headed down to the Y and back. Bathroom was locked at the Y. That is the second time in a week that has happened, you would think they don't like runners. I held the 9:00 pace for a while but it started to slip and I never got it back. My legs were sore from yesterday and stayed that way. It was just a gut-it-out run. Finally finished 21.31 miles in 3:23:10, average pace 9:32 per mile wearing regular, soaked shoes. Hit a lot of puddles today. The rain finally quit the last half hour and my fingers thawed out in the last mile or two. My legs are still sore though. That is all.

Comments

From allie on Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 17:36:27 from 174.23.238.75

very nice run. i can't think of anything better to do the day after thanksgiving! way to get out there.

impressive shopping, too. :)

From Smooth on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 00:44:16 from 67.2.111.170

WOW!!! My jaw just dropped to the floor! You ran 21+ miles on a cold rainy day the day after an awesome FAST 10K. And then you went shopping afterwards?!!! You are superhuman!!! VERY NICELY DONE!!!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 02:12:47 from 109.70.68.174

Congrats on the Black Friday win. Sounds like you burned off a couple turkeys worth of calories too!

From flatlander on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 18:24:15 from 75.223.146.145

Thanks all for noticing my shopping skills. If this running thing doesn't work out I might have an alternative.

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