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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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Thu, May 05, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.05	5.00	0.00	0.00	12.05

48F, 94%, calm and clear. Another picture perfect morning, just beautiful out there. I was still a little sore from yesterday, my feet are getting used to the new shoes and they are a little heavier, but once I got going I felt good. I ran 5.5 at LHR, average pace 9:27. My left groin (the healthy one) started pulling during the LHR miles and I thought I would have to stop, but I changed my stride pattern a little bit and got it to go away. Then transition for a half mile, then 5 at GMP, 7:45 (154), 7:28 (158), 7:23 (162), 7:23 (165) and 7:26 (166), then 1 cooldown and done. Felt pretty tired at the end. I was telling my younger son Austin about the nerve pain I have been getting in my right leg when I drive after running and he immediately diagnosed it as coming from my herniated disk from three years ago, which is exactly right when I think about it. My back was starting to hurt a little bit today at about mile 10, so back to my lower back stretching exercises, I feel better now. Overall I ran 12.05 miles in 1:43:28, average pace 8:35. Good run today.

Purely for scientific purposes, I put my Jingas on Austin's food scale. First picture is the heavier ones that just came in the mail and which now have about 35 miles on them, second is the ones I have been running in for most of the year, they have about 1100 miles on them (550 per shoe, but you know what I mean), and the third is a new pair which just arrived yesterday (I stockpile them when they go on sale for 30 Pounds Sterling), and which for some reason are the lighter version. Weight is in ounces:

So race strategy is to run in the old light ones. I have been told (and I keep telling myself) that these shoe styles are highly fashionable in Brazil. Too bad I live in Texas, where you can get shot for wearing stuff like this.

Comments

From derhammer on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:35:13 from 192.156.110.34

I think this morning may be the last day like it for a while. I can't imagine we get another cold front, but the weather has been strange lately so one never knows.

The shoes: wow - the first pair are almost twice as heavy. My shoes are around 7-8 oz so I am used to that. But I can imagine if I went to 14 oz shoes that would be very noticeable. Those shoes would go over well in Europe, and of course, you can wear those in Austin, but we are not really Texas so I am told. :-) I guess that's why I like it here so much.

From I Just Run on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:03:16 from 67.79.11.242

I love "Show and Tell"...!

I hope you don't have outfits to match every pair of shoes...

From SlowJoe on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 14:54:40 from 131.59.200.82

That's quite a difference for supposedly the same shoe. I thought my racing flats (7-8 oz) felt super light but that green pair you have should almost be floating.

I agree with DH, you could definitely get away with those in Austin a lot easier. Not here. Instead of "keep Austin weird" shirts, people here have "keep Abilene boring" shirts and bumper stickers, no kidding.

From I Just Run on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 15:00:04 from 67.79.11.242

Joe,

You didn't mention there were only trucks in Abilene...no cars... :)

From allie on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 22:28:25 from 174.23.197.101

i love these shoes (even if texas doesn't). 4.2 oz is awesome.

From Dan on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 23:40:28 from 24.209.83.20

I'm with Allie on the shoes- wicked cool... lighter than what I wear!

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