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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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53F, 77%, ENE 6 mph.  Crisp and cool weather, felt great, probably the last one.  Ran 6.5 LHR miles at 9.33 per mile, 1/2 mile transition then 5 at GMP:  7:27 (155), 7:31 (158), 7:24 (162), 7:33 (163) and 7:25 (164).  This pace actually felt somewhat sustainable this morning, big assist from the weather acknowledged.  I need to see if I can do 26.2K at this pace within the next week or so, that is another barometer that people talk about.  Total 12.25 miles in 1:45:44, average pace 8:38 per mile.

Woke up this morning with a big bruise, about 8 inches by 3 inces, mid-thigh on the inside, right leg.  No tenderness, just ugly.  My so-called groin pull is actually in the muscle that attaches to the inside of the knee and curves around to the front of my leg at the top.  No idea what it is called or what I did to aggravate it (I dunno, maybe I shouldn't have run a 5K PR on it?), but it hasn't bothered me since about Wednesday or Thursday, no idea why the bruise didn't show up earlier.  Probably a good thing I have no clue.

PM:  2 miles hill work on TM.

Comments
From derhammer on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:36:35 from 192.156.110.39

Ditto on the weather, Flat. Perfect morning, though it was about 10 degrees warmer down there then here.

Strange deal with the bruise. Glad it is not hurting.

From SlowJoe on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:38:39 from 131.59.200.82

Strange about the bruise, no guesses here.

Nice MP run today, I am wistful about the nice mornings being gone until late September.

From I Just Run on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56:53 from 67.79.11.242

I think deep bruises (blood) take a while to work to the sruface. Good thing it's not bothering you. No time for injuries now!

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