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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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73F, 94% humidity, wind WSW 8 mph, raining.  Gorgeous morning for running, rained most of the time.  I can't figure out why the humidity isn't 100% when it rains.  Ran 2 miles warmup, then 2 miles at 5K speed, 7:14 and 7:05, then relaxed for a mile and ran 10 x 200 basically as fast as I could with 200 cooldowns in between.  I can't measure 200 exactly on my Garmin, I'm sure there is a way, but I just run 0.12 or 0.13 and then hit the lap button.  Pacing for the splits ranged from 6:46 to 6:04 on a mile basis, mostly around 6:30.  Not very fast for a flat-out sprint, but a little faster than it was when I ran similar intervals earlier in the summer.  It really wasn't very hard, didn't want to risk an injury, funny thing is that form seemed to make more difference on speed than effort.

Spent a good part of the morning figuring out plane tickets to Hartford for me and my wife, should have done it weeks ago.  I finally had a eureka moment when I was all done and checked out prices to Newark.  About half, even with the extra cost of the rental car.  So back on the phone to change everything around.  Done now, but wasted too much time.

Comments
From Mack on Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 14:09:08 from 71.111.186.66

Nice speed work. I like to run in the rain too.

Is your next marathon in Hartford? I thought you were doing St George?

From flatlander on Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 14:19:52 from 198.207.244.102

Mack, didn't make it through the St. George lottery, but it's just as well. As fun as that race is, I seem to run best on flat sea-level courses.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 15:35:45 from 214.13.130.104

I see you're keeping the intensity up. Lookin' good.

From baldnspicy on Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 22:09:15 from 72.77.98.144

We're scheduled for thunderstorms tomorrow. I think I'm the only person in the running class hoping that it rains between noon and 1pm. I love it.

Great job on the speed work, friend!

From derhammer on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:06:56 from 65.67.40.73

Nice workout. I think those sprint times are very respectable. You mentioned form - that's why I like some speed work - it really makes me focus on form even when I get tired.

From baldnspicy on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 17:53:53 from 72.77.68.219

How can we be friends if you're just going to keep rubbing the speed in my face!?

From Smooth on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:17:26 from 67.41.235.104

AWESOME speed to keep things sharp! Glad you figured out the airfare stuff. Is Hartford the same weekend as St George? GOOD LUCK and enjoy the taper!

Oh, I love running in the rain...today we had some serious downpour burst...the blinding kind...crazy! I prefer the light rain kind.

From flatlander on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:50:51 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, thanks, can't wait till you get to race again.

Wes, yep, love the rain. As for the speed, c'mon, it was 200 meters. It takes that far just to fall down.

David, yeah, I was surprised at how smooth I felt when I sped up, definitely some benefit there. You have to run smooth or you will fall apart.

Smooth, thanks, took me a while but I wasn't feeling very smart. Hartford is the weekend after St. George, so I get to stay home and watch all the bloggers, then go do my own race.

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