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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
10.550.000.000.0010.55

69F, wind SSW 10 mph, hot and humid.  Felt great running out there, basically the first day of summer, though it should cool down by tomorrow.  Ran 10.55 miles in 1:55:50 (lots of 5s on April 5), average pace 10:59 per mile, low heart rate and flat shoes.  I am watching my right knee closely, it felt like it had some ITB in it, but it never got worse during the run and seems to be better now than yesterday.

I have made friends with a bike rider.  He is out spinning around every morning about the same time as me, for about 8 months now.  Finally six weeks ago he said "hi" when he went past me.  I said "hey".  This has happened three times now.  This may not seem like much to the lady bloggers, but for guys at 5:00 in the morning it makes us blood brothers.

Comments
From lightitup on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 16:00:32 from 67.185.20.107

Yeah, good job being vigilant on the ITB. I am the proud owner of a hernia, wish I would have worked the glutes, hips and core more.

From flatlander on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 16:01:53 from 198.207.244.102

You mentioned it once but I thought it had gone away. I assume it won't stop you from running Boston?

From lightitup on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 16:13:41 from 67.185.20.107

LOL, no it got worse, as hernias do, as I knew, but didn't want to think about. I will still try to run Boston. If I end up walking again at Boston, you should put 24 hour surveillance around me for the next year....it would be bad.

From flatlander on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 16:14:32 from 198.207.244.102

You'll do fine, you always do.

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 17:31:49 from 67.42.27.114

"Hey and hi."

From SlowJoe on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 19:33:32 from 184.79.24.255

Nice run, summer will be brutal.

I see your friendship zoomed straight past the "mornin'" stage. I see some of the same people on my university route but all I have so far is, "Mornin." No hellos.

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