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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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63F, 71% humidity, wind ENE 6 mph.  Good running weather, not quite as cool as yesterday but not bad at all.  Same routine, ran 6 before the seminary run then came back and went out again.  My right foot was acting up a little, so I did two transition miles instead of 1 or 1.5.  The MP miles were 7:23 (152), 7:30 (155), 7:30 (159) and 7:29 (163), so I got 3 of them under 160 today.  The slow miles were also good, averaged 9:33 and even got a 9:14.  Overall, 13.00 miles in 1:54:17, average pace 8:48 per mile, flat shoes.  Good run, keeping an eye on my foot though, it didn't recover quite enough overnight.  If it persists I may have to switch back to regular-weight shoes for a few days, which I hate to do.  It throws off my form and the slower speeds put me in a funk.  But it is hard doing flat shoes every day, too many years of civilization, takes a while to make the switch.

Comments
From I Just Run on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:13:12 from 67.79.11.242

I really like the weather report every day that you give. I need to find an app to give me all that information. I think it would be good in comparing past runs! Hope the foot settles down.

From Rye on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:50:23 from 168.103.41.216

Great run. I switched to some light weight neutral shoes last year. I really like weightless feel. I was wondering how often you use your flats for your training runs? I have given it some thought to try some racing flats.

From derhammer on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 16:36:15 from 65.160.26.157

Nice, I hope your foot gets better.

Do you have a chance to run on soft surfaces? I read this somewhere and it has always stuck with me. Take a golf ball and drop it on concrete or pavement, then take the ball and drop it on hard packed dirt, grass, or another soft surface. Of course, there will be an enormous difference in energy return. Now relate that to running on those surfaces. It's easy to imagine the beating that our legs take running on concrete. Sooner or later all those miles on hard surfaces will take their toll.

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