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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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Sat, Aug 28, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

71F, 80% humidity, wind NW 5 mph. Another great morning to run. Went to a new neighborhood about 10 miles away with my friend Wade and we ran 20.00 miles with several groups on a combined run, 3:07:58, 9:24 per mile average pace, regular shoes. The group only ran 18, so we hung out for a while after we finished until Wade's brother and sister-in-law came in. She has run one marathon and is registered for St. George with Wade. She said she wouldn't run St. George if she couldn't get 20 today. She was sky-high when she came in and wanted to do two more to get a full 20, so out we went. She ran 5:05 in her first marathon and is looking to blast that one out of the water. Up until that time we had an average pace of 9:19, so that gives you an idea of how well we did on the last two, very stiff when we got up to run again. Wade cratered last week on a hotter day, when we ran about 17 at 10:49 pace, so he was sky-high as well. He kept up with me every step of the way and had a lower heart rate, so he is back in the saddle. My own plan was to do half of the run at 9:30 then the second half at 8:30, but we were in a strange neighborhood and didn't know our way around, so we had to hang around other runners. I don't think Wade quite wanted to run that fast anyway, and it is up for debate whether I could have finished the run at that speed. I had a little bit left, though, maximum heart rate was 172. Maybe next week. I am thinking I need to get a little bit better to get my BQ in Hartford.

We found ourselves running for most of the time with a solid, beefy, young guy. Turns out he played football for TCU until 2007. Had a fun conversation about the Mountain West. He thinks BYU should stay in and it is looking like that is what will happen, if you believe the leaks coming out of Denver. Probably for the best but they have to fix that TV contract. BYU fans everywhere need to be able to see the games, it is our constitutional right, or at least it could be.

Comments

From Smooth on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:41:15 from 174.23.218.17

NICE HR and pace for 20 miler. Looks like you paced Wade and his sil very well. You will do AWESOME at Hartford.

I agree with our constitutional right...GO COUGARS!!!!

From Burt on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:42:27 from 68.225.214.248

Man alive, you're a great runner!

From baldnspicy on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 13:42:37 from 72.77.116.121

Killer mileage this week, Flat! I'm impressed and your 20 miler sounded divine...to read. :-) Great job!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 01:12:11 from 214.13.130.104

Wow, that's a really impressive pace for 20 miles. You have made some solid gains for sure, can't attribute all that to a few degrees of cooling, in my opinion. Nice job.

From Kelli on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 19:42:15 from 71.219.102.155

Sounds like everyone was Sky High.

Hmmm....now about that BYU....

From derhammer on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:04:39 from 192.156.110.32

Great run! You should be fine if you get a nice cool morning in the 40's or 50's at Hartford. Looks like the course has quite a few turns - remember to run the tangents.

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