For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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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Tue, Sep 14, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.01

73F, 97% humidity, calm and clear with ground fog. I didn't know you could have fog at this temperature, but definitely a great morning for running. Went long and slow, 11.01 miles in 1:56:58, average pace 10:37 pe rmile, low heart rate and regular shoes. Woke up at 2:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Finally got up at 5:00 and hit the road at 5:30, back just in time to take my daughter to school. I am going to be sleepy today, already am, but it didn't seem to affect my speed, this was a good pace for regular shoes.

So last Saturday my son went to homecoming at his girlfriend's high school and the group and their parents came to our house for pictures. Two strange things. First was that the group of 13 kids was 9 girls and 4 boys, there were 5 girls without dates. That is new to me, nothing wrong with it but when I was a kid you took a date to a big dance or stayed home or did something else. Second thing was of a very different nature. Two of the girls were mothers of 3-month infants, who were included in some of the pictures. Both of the mothers had dates, one was the father and the other was not. When I realized what the situation was, I just sat in the corner in shock while everybody chattered away. I am not ignorant about teenage parenting, but I naively thought that if you had a kid the party was over. Apparently not. Still trying to sort this one out in my head, but I am pretty sure these kids don't understand the full extent of the price they will be paying for their decisions.

Comments

From KP on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:00:50 from 65.208.22.25

that is something i think about a lot as well! not saying that you don't have fun after you become a parent, but i do think that when you become a parent when you are still in high school, a bit of the fun should end. if the kids are out partying or going to dances or whatever, that means that the parents are watching the kid. that would never fly with my mother, i can assure you. i remember my senior prom a girl came that was like 8.5 months pregnant... WHY?

From flatlander on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:37:56 from 198.207.244.102

KP, Thanks for weighing in on this. Being a parent comes with both pain and fun, but I think these kids are going to have more pain than fun. There is a proper sequence -- they are out of sequence and don't seem to realize it. And as you note, it is also unfair to the grandparents who have to set aside their own plans to help out, for the sake of the baby if nothing else.

From Burt on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:46:20 from 206.19.214.144

I would have walked right up and told them that they should have waited until they were married.

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