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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	7.91	0.00	0.00	7.91

47F, wind NW 14-19 mph, sunny (we actually got snow flurries yesterday afternoon, but nothing stuck). I ran at lunch today because my son called this morning on his way to school from seminary. The transmission on the truck blew out. Nice little present to start the day. The debate is whether to buy a new transmission or a new truck. I pointed out that I could buy a transmission every year and still be better off than getting a new truck. Plus trucks are supposed to be old. The older and uglier the better. If I see somebody driving a truck that is too fancy, like with GPS, heated seats and mood lights, I think he is a poseur who probably doesn't own a good socket set. My son and his mother, on the other hand, think that is just fine and would add a custom sound system to the list.

Oh yeah, the run. I went 7.91 miles in 1:13:06, average pace 9:15 per mile, no heart rate monitor. That is about where I wanted to be, the goal was to air it out a little bit and see if my injuries stayed away. They did, and after I ran the second mile in 8:54 I thought I might as well run the rest of it at that pace. Well, it didn't happen, never saw another 8 the whole run. I have lost some conditioning to be sure. The wind was pretty hard and I don't like baking my skin in the noonday sun. But those are mere excuses. You are what you run.

Comments

From lightitup on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:07:04 from 67.185.20.107

You're back. Rock on brother. :/

Icy Hot is my rage of the day. Put it on wherever it hurts, let it loosen it up, then ice it after the run. It's working on the Achilles!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:48:36 from 131.59.200.80

Great run, is it kind of nice not knowing what your HR is?

I agree with you about trucks. I bought mine after I graduated college in '01 and people ask me when I'm getting a new one. It only has 90K miles on it, it's practically new!

From flatlander on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:00:43 from 198.207.244.102

Elaine, in high school we used to have something called Atomic Balm, it would make your skin burn pretty good, used to put it on just before a race. I wonder if it is like Icy Hot?

Joe, there is certainly an amount of freedom in not running to a certain heart rate. I usually pay for it later, though. My truck is a Ford F150 year '00 and it has about 120K, so they are pretty similar. Is yours a Ford? My wife thinks we could make a good deal on a Tundra right now, I guess she thinks I have a pretty sweet life insurance policy.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 17:40:33 from 71.21.119.111

Yep, sound like she's trying to get rid of you! Actually I've heard good things about Tundra. My truck is a Chevy (Silverado). When I turned 16 I got my dad's 1970 Chevy pickup so I learned to drive on that; there was a bit of loyalty there I guess.

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