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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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75F, 83%, S 10-18, cloudy but won't rain.  The drought continues, but good running weather.  The goal this morning was to test out my right groin which was in pretty bad shape on Saturday after the race.  Went 9.02 miles all at LHR, 1:31:29, average pace 10:08 per mile.  I was a little surprised that my pace was so slow despite running low miles on Saturday, but probably a combination of heat and injury.  The groin was generally OK, definitely sore and not healed but better than Saturday.  I was ready to stop whenever I got the right neural signals, but it never happened.  The muscle gradually loosened up, to the point that by mile 5 it was almost unnoticeable so long as I stayed in the same rhythm.  Might try a little bit of speed tomorrow.  I think I will try 1K intervals at a little slower than GMP and see how that works.

I've been thinking all weekend about the 53-year old who ran a 17:45 5K, more than 3 minutes faster than me.  So far, every local race in the 5K to 10K range has the best runners in my age group coming in around 6:10 to 6:30 per mile.  Sometimes none of them show up and I win the age group.  Other times they all do and I come in 10th.  But with my 6:41 per mile on Saturday I was getting close to being competitive no matter who shows up.  But every time I think I must be approaching my limit I see another shining example in gray hair and it's back to the drawing board.  This guy ran 5:42 per mile and he was at least 185 pounds, a big guy, his time is definitely a standard I should be shooting for.  My genetics are good but not great and sooner or later they will catch up with me, but I am enjoying the ride while it lasts, so glad I decided to do this.  Plus, just found out I am in SGM with two sisters, two brothers and a brother in law!  What a day.

Comments
From I Just Run on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:54:48 from 67.79.11.242

Or another thought is that you could move up here near me. The competition doesn't seem nearly as competative :)

From SlowJoe on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:02:56 from 131.59.200.80

Hey, lots of good news - the groin sounds like it might be no factor, and congrats on getting into St George. Time to jack up the treadmill so you can practice careening down a mountain.

From Rye on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 14:02:31 from 168.103.139.178

Thats awesome flat. What a great race it will be with family there!

From Mack on Mon, May 09, 2011 at 20:51:58 from 50.39.193.169

Congrats on getting in to St George Flat.

From derhammer on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:58:42 from 192.156.110.32

Glad to hear the injury sounds minor. St. George sounds great.

It's pretty amazing to see some of the runners at 5K's. 17:45 is smoking fast. My age group winner on Saturday ran a 17:54. I finished 4th while my friend who ran a slower time then me got 2nd in the 35-39 age group - you never know who is going to show up to these things.

From flatlander on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 14:17:19 from 198.207.244.102

IJR, if I did that I would have to race you -- that would be a disaster.

Joe, I know, I know, gotta get back on that thing.

Rye, they are already stoked. We are planning a vacation.

Mack, thanks, hope all is going well with you.

DH, yes, hard to believe. Surprisingly, my time was good enough to win the 40-44 division in this particular race. Age group results are all over the map.

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