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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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61F, 97%, calm and clear.  Out very early again to finish the run before the seminary run, thus avoiding the dreaded re-start.  Ran 4 easy at 8:25, then dropped it to GMP for the next 6:  7:23 (156), 7:33 (159), 7:36 (162), 7:22 (164), 7:30 (166), and 7:27 (169).  These felt pretty good.  Altogether 10.10 miles in 1:19:24, 7:54 per mile.  The plan is to do 20 at 7:45 on Wednesday (the run I missed on Saturday), however . . .

Possible disaster after the seminary run.  My lower back, which has been bothering me all weekend but felt fine during the run, seized up and I could barely walk when I got out of the car.  I have been stretching and I have iced it, to little effect.  I have a herniated disk which pushes against the sciatic nerve between L2 and L3, causing a small amount of permanent numbness in my right foot.  I got this 4 years ago, right after I started running, and it shut me down for the summer, very intense pain initially.  This morning is a rude reminder that I am not a young man.  Maybe it will go away as quickly as it came, but I am worried.  At least it appears I have been through every injury now, since we are apparently in a recycle mode.

Comments
From I Just Run on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:27:40 from 67.79.11.242

Oh man Flat...hope this goes away as quickly as it came upon you. If it's like mine it surely can go away in an instant. One day I can barely walk and tne next day I'm fine. Luckly I havn't had a problem in a couple of years.

If you are able to run your 20 on wednesday maybe I'll run a virtual 20 with you at the same pace :-)

From Dan on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 17:17:09 from 24.209.83.20

Oh no! The L2-L4 was where my pain made my foot and quad go haywire last fall. I hope it is very short lived!

From allie on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 17:42:52 from 71.213.50.84

shoot. sorry to hear that. i hope it loosens up for you and doesn't cause too much more pain. good luck.

From Andrea on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 18:03:04 from 67.182.215.126

Sounds awful. How have you been able to feel better in the past?

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