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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
10.090.000.000.0110.10

67F, wind SSE 10 mph, gusts to 21 mph, cloudy and getting ready to rain.  A great morning for running.  Ran 10.09 in 1:49:40, average pace 10:52 per mile, low heart rate and flat shoes.  Best low heart rate pace so far if my memory is correct. 

My granddaughters are in town from Utah, and my wife left with their parents this morning to go look for a house in Temple, Texas, where they are moving in a couple of months.  They took the younger one with them, but Kate and I are duking it out here alone for a couple of days.  So far she is winning.  I have painted her nails (sad but true) and raced her grocery cart on the back porch.  I lost that race but was able to get 0.01 VO2 max miles in.  Here is the winner with her groceries.  I think she needs to work on her sportsmanship.

Comments
From Mack on Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:51:22 from 71.111.186.66

Pretty hard to imagine a kid that cute being a poor sport! I'm glad she beat you. =)

From SlowJoe on Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 13:55:56 from 184.79.24.255

She is definitely rubbing it in, looks like you need to train harder. Good running yesterday, btw.

From flatlander on Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 14:12:47 from 198.207.244.102

I seem to have developed this habit of getting chicked by family members.

From Rye on Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 15:52:17 from 75.174.12.191

Man I am jealous! My oldest daughter has been married for 5 years and still no kids. She is a doll.

From Burt on Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:23:52 from 98.177.220.145

Cute progeny.

From flatlander on Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:38:31 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks. She got four changes of nail color out of me in two days, ending up with goth (not sure why that one was in my wife's drawer). When I called her "relentless" she got offended and demanded to know what it meant. And when her parents got home they were laughing at my gullibility -- at home her rule is one change every five days.

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