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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
14.440.000.000.0014.44

67F, 97%, SSE 5 mph.  A little warmer today but it didn't feel like it.  More of the same, this is my life now.  14.47 miles in 2:26:03, average pace 10:07 per mile, considerably better than yesterday, so that is encouraging.  I must be recovering from SGM and the half I ran on Saturday.

Only thing interesting was at mile 8, another front door opened and a large dog came at me.  I yelled at him.  The owner called him back and told me he was harmless.  I said "OK, no problem." and went on my way, even ran by the same house again on mile 12.  So progress.  Didn't apologize for yelling, though.  That is for later, I am only at Step 2 right now.

Comments
From ACorn on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 18:49:32 from 68.66.168.22

Harmless or not, large dogs have a scare factor.

You're working hard this week. Nice miles!

From Huans32 on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 18:55:43 from 138.64.8.51

Wow great run man. Looking strong.

From Andrea on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 18:59:07 from 72.37.244.100

I got a pretty bad bite from a dog last year and ever since then I yell really loud!

From Dave S on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 21:46:09 from 4.254.218.115

Great mileage this week! I'm just feeling close to recovered from St George and I didn't run a half. Way to get after it!

From Rye on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 23:51:43 from 174.27.120.12

What's up with dog owners anyway??? They're so annoying! Nice run flat...

From derhammer on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:12:41 from 65.67.40.73

What is it that you actually yell at a dog? :-) I try to ignore them and just keep running. So far that seems to work. I have more encoutners with deer than dogs, though.

From flatlander on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:15:35 from 198.207.244.102

Acorn, thanks, still thinking about pullups, don't think I have ever met anybody who could do that many.

Mark, thanks, glad you are getting back into it.

Andrea, that's terrible. I've never actually been bitten. There is no excuse for my wimpiness.

Thanks Dave, just starting to feel it again this week. It just takes a while, not sure why. We all recover pretty quickly from hard workouts.

Rye, I know you didn't mean that.

DH, sorry, family blog.

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