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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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Sat, Jan 15, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
15.59	0.00	0.00	0.00	15.59

44F, 85% humidity, wind ENE 6 mph, rainy. Very nice running weather, but slow again for the second day in a row. Ran the same route as yesterday, 10.29 in 1:48:46, average pace 10:34 per mile, flat shoes, so even slower. Not sure what is going on but not panicking just yet.

Then in the afternoon I ran in a church-sponsored 5K. The teenagers are getting ready for a 3-day trek in March to commemorate our pioneer heritage, so today there was a 5K run/walk organized to help certain of them know that they needed to get into shape. Altogether there were 230 runners, very nice turnout. My friend Wade organized it and did a great job. As I told him, I have paid quite a bit of money for races that were not organized as well as this one, and this one was free. Everyone at church today was talking about what a blast they had and lobbying to repeat it next year. Isn't running great?

My daughter-in-law came out from downtown to run it and to support the trek preparations, so we ended up running together, had a great time, very nice of her to come out. I ran some more miles before the race, then 2.8 for the "5K", then went back out to bring in my daughter who was walking it with some friends. She didn't seem too embarrassed to have a parent show up with bony knees and long white socks (just kidding about the socks, the knees are no kidding). I even convinced them to run a little bit, so altogether I ran about another 5.3 miles, total of 15.59 for the day. It was a good day to take it easy, as my Achilles was hurting by the end of the day. It feels better today, probably going to be OK if I don't do anything overly stupid -- not that I won't.

Then, we drove to Kingwood and met Smooth and her daughter for a nice evening at a pretty good local restaurant. Compared a lot of notes and talked a lot of family background and a lot of running. It was a great time, glad to meet another blogger. Thanks Smooth (and your daughter) for taking the time to meet us!

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