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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
6.020.000.000.006.02

71F, 96% and calm.  Supposedly we had rain last night but if it happened I slept right through it.  Checked all the taper programs I could find and didn't see anything that recommends more than one day of fast running in the final week, so took it easy today, 6.02 miles in 56:49, average pace 9:26 per mile.  Either tomorrow or Wednesday I will do either 3 miles fast or 3 x 1000 fast, still thinking through that.  Then my pre-carb-loading sprint on Thursday or Friday and that is it.

My son broke up with his girlfriend.  It was a long and damaging relationship.  But one of my many personality defects is my love of black humor.  So I have been laughing inside for several days about this sequence involving his ex's memorabelia:

May the blue bucket rest in peace.  Happy first week of summer everybody.

Comments
From Lily on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:24:52 from 67.199.178.210

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

This cracked me up so much. And yeah, don't do much fast running in a taper :)

From JG on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:32:07 from 74.176.220.126

That is hilarious! I will have to remember that gas & plastic make for a great way to soured memorabilia!

Have a good taper week & best of luck next week!

From I Just Run on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:32:27 from 67.79.11.242

It's a wonder you could even run today with all the "drama" going on at your house! Ha ha ... I have a 15 year old boy, I know exactly what you're going through :-)

From Dan on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 15:44:24 from 216.68.180.6

And I have a16yr old daughter, certainly know how the can get... Good choice on the run imo, stay slow

From SlowJoe on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 19:40:39 from 184.79.24.255

How long before they get back together?

Are you serious that this is just the first week of summer?? %$#@!

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 22:25:59 from 174.70.177.86

Nice! I love the play-by-play. That is some killer humidity. Your taper plan sounds solid enough!

From flatlander on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 23:36:26 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks everybody. Life is too easy with this taper, starting to doubt myself but trying to stay strong.

From Dan on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 23:44:02 from 24.209.83.20

No doubts, no worries, you got this man

From Steam8 on Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 00:56:45 from 166.70.55.77

Tapers are hard. I am always glad that I did it during the race.

The break-up burn made me laugh. I have done that before! ha!

From derhammer on Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:39:07 from 192.156.110.34

I did "the burn" once a long time ago, but I used a grill. It didn't erase the memories, though.

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