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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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Fri, Dec 31, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.09	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.09

67F, 93% humidity, wind SSE 6 mph. Nice weather for a short soft run, really bad harbinger for tomorrow's race. I ran 4.09 miles in 40:51, average pace 9:58 per mile, low heart rate and flat shoes.

Oh yeah, there is a race tomorrow. Here is the deal: I woke up yesterday morning with a very raw throat and it isn't much different today -- almost feels like strep. Plus I have that constant hungry feeling I get when this happens, so I know it is the real deal. I have run two other marathons with flu-like symptoms, my first and my sixth, and they were both, shall we say, less than ideal. The logical thing would be to pull out or switch to the half but I'll probably end up running it as planned, I am kind of stubborn that way. I felt fine for this morning's easy run but woozy afterward. Plus, just as I feared, the cold front is way late. Current low for tomorrow morning is now set at 45F, but I am guessing 50F, quite a difference from the 33F that was forecast only two days ago. If it is 50F at the start, it will be 65F or higher by the end. Almost worse would be if the cold front is moving in during the race, because winds up to 20mph are expected, which could make shambles out of any PR effort. Whine, whine, whine, I'll just go run it.

Today's miles were my last of the year, pretty good year considering quite a bit of downtime in the first half. I got three marathon PRs this year. I also started running shorter races and found out I score higher age-group wise in shorter races than in the marathon. I dropped my best low heart rate pace from 11:27 to 9:41. I lost another 15 pounds. And I have met so many fun and high-quality people on this blog that I just shake my head in amazement when I think about it. Most importantly, I had lots of good times running with family and friends in training and in races, and I have watched several people in my life take up running. This change in lifestyle has been very good to me, even if I never get another PR, which is not the plan.

Comments

From lightitup on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:07:03 from 71.37.143.96

Best of luck on your sore throat, I hope it gets better before you run. Take a Gram of Vit C every hour and it might actually help...I hope you feel better!

From PRE on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 20:28:26 from 99.50.214.225

Oh you will PR again I am sure. Three Marathon PRs in a year. I did not realize you ran Marathons so frequently. So today is January 1, 2011. And it looks like you may have run a Marathon today. Looking forward to hearing about it and hope you did well given the illness.

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