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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.700.000.000.0011.70

61F, 94% humidity, calm.  Another beautiful running morning.  Ran 11.70 in 2:06, average pace 10:48 per mile, regular shoes and low heart rate.  Was hoping the pace would be a little faster but I was fatigued.  Never felt that good and at the end of the run I was totally wrung out, kind of a bone deep tiredness, actually surprised my pace wasn't even slower.  I may have lost some aerobic conditioning because of the faster miles I have been running lately, a month ago this run would have been no big deal.  Kind of hard to fit everything in that needs to get done, something always gets neglected.

Passed by my favorite Dog behind the Fence this morning, this time he had his little buddy out there.  They were yapping away, baritone and soprano, as I approached from the east.  I let them carry on for a while then growled low under my breath, audible only to dog ears.  There was a stunned silence for about one and a half heartbeats, then all heck broke loose, beside themselves with anger and excitement that I had talked back, in their own language, wish I knew what I said.  I ran back by from the west about 10 minutes later and they had either been pulled back from the front line by their owner or had suffered coronaries.  As entertainment goes, I thought it was a respectable Ipod alternative.

Comments
From Stephen on Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 15:43:30 from 204.182.3.235

I don't know about the "respectable" part, but it's gotta be a lot more fun.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 18:08:18 from 214.13.130.104

You gotta have some kind of entertainment for a 2 hr run, nice job. Do you lose aerobic conditioning by running faster?

From Smooth on Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 18:16:32 from 67.41.235.104

You crack me up!!!! :D

From flatlander on Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:13:16 from 198.207.244.102

Stephen, I'm always respectable.

Joe, that hard core low heart rate guys will claim you lose it anytime you run fast. I think I do lose some but for the simple reason I'm not logging enough LHR miles to keep it up. In fact, anytime I run really hard, over 175 bpm for a sustained period of time, my low heart rate speed seems to actually pick up to some extent.

Smooth, thanks for reading it! It doesn't take much to amuse me.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:03:04 from 84.11.148.245

I always learn things when I come to your blog!

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