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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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Mon, Aug 29, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.39	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.39

63F, 94%, ESE 6 mph. Unfortunately, those are Utah temperatures. Actually, I was surprised at how warm it is here, but even at 94% humidity the air feels cooler here because at altitude it doesn't hold as much water per unit, if that makes sense. Got up very early and ran with my brother -- I have been sleeping in his house and eating his food all weekend. He blogs on here as Stephen. That's because his name is Stephen. He needs a tag-line for his blog, right now it says "This message goes at top of blog." His is probably better than mine, now that I think about it. Mine makes me sound old, and I am definitely never going to be old.

We ran out to Main Street from Stephen's house in Orem, up to 1600 North, over to 400 East, down to Center Street, back to State Street, back to 1600 North and home. Total of 6.39 miles at 9:56 per mile, LHR and old (there's that word again), heavy shoes, still wet from Saturday's adventure. Pretty good run under the circumstances.

I was just happy to be in the game this morning. Ankle was very sore when I woke up, but did fine running after I got it warmed up a little bit. Was talking to my son Clint last night and he said current medical learning for sprains is to work the heck out of it, stay on it as much as you can. If you don't show bruising it is probably going to be OK, especially if it is on the outside of the foot, which mine is. I probably did myself a favor on Satuday by walking out on it instead of sitting down and having a good cry, even though it was painful. Bigger problem right now is my quads, glutes and calves. It is two days later and I still hurt everywhere, still can't go down a flight of stairs even though I can run, worse than any marathon I can recall. But I am actually happy about that, it means I probably did myself some good. Back to Houston today, might get in some TM miles tonight.

Comments

From Rye on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 15:34:42 from 70.58.163.66

You are a traveling man! Hoped you enjoyed the west.

From Kelli on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 19:53:53 from 71.219.67.82

I agree on the ankle sprain, they seem to go away the more you keep at it!

Loving the weather here I bet! I was a bit confused when I saw that on YOUR blog! How long are you here?

From Dan on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 23:35:25 from 24.209.83.20

Man you do travel a lot. Sorry about the pains throughout, hope it passes. I am an expert on humidity lol - if the temp gets below 65 it affects you much less than just 5 to 10 degrees hotter (I despise the 70 degree 100% days, yet the 60 degree 100% are fine - still somewhat wet, but good). Hey good run and be well.

From allie on Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 23:51:48 from 24.10.191.18

hey, you were in utah! cool. i'm glad your ankle was ok for the run. hope you made it back to houston safely.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:47:03 from 132.3.53.68

Forget the humidity - the air feels cooler there because it IS cooler there! Welcome back, hope it was a nice trip.

Not that you need confirmation (your son is a doctor right?) but I noticed the same thing with sprained ankes -- working it out, doing ankle circles, writing the alphabet with your toe, etc. seems to help a lot.

From I Just Run on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:58:32 from 67.79.11.242

First...I thought you were a lawyer not a scientist...I'm confused. Now I also learn your son is a doctor...I thought he was still in high school...? Oh well, as Burt says, you can be anyone you want to be on the Blog...:-) Maybe your brother should be Ryan Hall!

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