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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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Sat, Jun 26, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
16.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	16.00

74F, 97% humidity at start, 80F, 85% at end, wind calm. A very nice morning with a couple of hours of full moon before daylight. Just at moonset I glanced over at the red setting moon and noticed it wasn't full anymore. What the heck? I knew a full moon doesn't change into a half moon just like that, it takes a week, and half moons don't set at sunrise, they set at midnight or noon, depending on whether they are waxing or waning. I knew it was either the apocalypse or I was seeing a lunar eclipse (earth's shadow on the moon), which is considerably more rare, for some reason, than a solar eclipse (moon blocking the sun), and to have it right at moonset with an enlarged red moon in the sky must be rare indeed. So quite a bonus by getting up early this morning.

And early it was. Out the door at 4:30 intending to run 20 miles, but only made 16. I got a big blister on my left foot just at the base of the big toe. In all my running I have never gotten a blister, a hot spot once in a while but this is the first one. I am chalking it up to high sweat levels and minimal shoes. Both hips were yelling at me as well, so I called it a day. They feel OK now. I ran my miles mostly in the 9:45 range, must say I was surprised at how difficult that was. I considered pushing through but decided it is still too soon after the marathon, live to fight another day. Would have done better in regular shoes today undoubtedly.

Here is a photo taken by a guy in Richmond, Texas, which is southwest Houston. This is how it looked here. I think the further west the more of the eclipse you got to see.

Happy weekend, all.

Comments

From Smooth on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 13:18:02 from 174.23.236.38

That moon eclipse is so awesome! What a nice bonus to get up and run so early. Sorry about the blister. But I think it's a blessing in disguise, 20 miles 2 weeks after UVM seems alot to me! You are doing GREAT! Have a nice weekend!

From Stephen on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 13:42:49 from 71.195.218.176

I saw the same moon this morning while I was running! But I didn't think too much about it. It was smaller than your picture shows. I kind of thought it was supposed to be bigger

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:38:52 from 184.79.24.255

Rats, I didn't run on Saturday. Anyway, nice long run - for me, the earlier I get up it seems like the more effort it takes to run a given pace.

From RivertonPaul on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 17:30:25 from 97.117.120.35

Nice big run. Glad your moon experience wasn't referring to someone's butt.

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