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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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71F, 87%, S 8 mph, cloudy, but ain't gonna get no rain today.  Nice running weather though.  Started with 6 low heart rate miles at 9:36 per mile, then took my daughter to seminary.  Going back out, my legs felt good after a day off, so I promptly trashed them:  2 warmup miles then 4 tempo miles at 7:07 (163), 7:00 (171), 7:01 (177) and 7:07 (180), 1 mile active cooldown.  Not sure what the overall program looks like for this week.  Trying to keep the long + hard stuff going, but my schedule will be messed up beginning Wednesday, plus I have a 5K on Saturday, so playing it by ear.

My daughter on the way to seminary said she admires my effort, but why do I do it?  In particular she thinks it's crazy to get up not that far past the middle of the night, 6 days a week.  This from a teenager who gets up at 5 every morning to make seminary at 6, probably harder for her than for an old guy like me.  I can give long answers all day long, but I don't have a good simple answer, other than being addicted to the endorphins -- there must be something more noble than that?

Comments
From derhammer on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 16:15:52 from 192.156.110.39

Nice run!

Well, if you think of a better reason let me know. I don't even try to explain to people, and I am sort of embarrassed to even talk about how many miles I run to non-runners. Maybe it's "to see how far I can push my body and mind."

From SlowJoe on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 13:28:18 from 131.59.200.80

Excellent tempo run. I agree you can't let your legs off the hook for too long or they'll get soft on ya.

I've never thought much about why I'm running, but maybe I will now...

From I Just Run on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 14:25:53 from 67.79.11.242

I Just Run....Because I can...!

If you haven't seen this youtube video, you should watch it...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5MHsO-JI8

From Rye on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 18:26:08 from 174.27.65.38

We are all strange human beings. Aren't we all lucky!

From flatlander on Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:53:49 from 76.31.26.153

Good responses, thanks all.

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