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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
12.353.800.000.0016.15

72F, 88% SSE 6 mph, cloudy but doin' nothin.  Good morning for losing weight while you run.  Got up very early and ran 9 slow before the seminary run, then came back and warmed up for 2 more, then tried to do 4 GMP miles, pulled up at 3.8 because my right hamstring started to hurt, same spot as it cramped yesterday morning.  Discretion over valor, live to run another day, etc., etc.  The 3 I did do were 7:39 (161), 7:31 (168) and 7:27 (174), don't know the pace on the 0.8 split.  1.35 cooldown.  I was hitting 180 bpm on the 4th one before I pulled up, heat and accumulation of fast miles this week are starting to take their toll.  I now know what my long run is going to be like tomorrow: slow.  It isn't too bad doing miles at this pace periodically, but it is a different feel to do them every day.  If I manage to pull off a marathon at this pace I will feel like I have earned it -- this is hard work.

Overall 16.15 miles in 2:34:17, average pace 9:33 per mile, flat shoes.

My biker friend (he is out there every morning and we exchange greetings every 6 months) found a biker buddy this morning, so I guess it is over for us.  But I know he'll come back when he gets tired of the new guy.

Comments
From Smooth on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:44:11 from 67.2.74.200

Just got caught up with your week! WOW!!! check out all those MP miles! Your training is AWESOME!!!

From I Just Run on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:02:12 from 166.205.14.70

Flatlander

I'm a little worried about you... Hanging out with bikers and such, next thing you know you'll be getting a runner tattooed across your chest!

ICR

From Burt on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 14:42:03 from 206.19.214.144

Sorry about your loss.

From flatlander on Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:02:13 from 76.31.26.153

Smooth, thanks, always a struggle to figure out how much is enough but not too much.

IJR, thanks for your concern. What is the proper term anyway, self-propelled cyclists?

Burt, thanks, sniff sniff.

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