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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

Tue, Jul 06, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.10

75F, 96% humidity at start, 79F, 90% at end. Beautiful clear morning, but it was an interesting weekend. Friday night visiting my daughter and her family, we went out to a popular barbeque joint about 20 minutes out in the country from their house in Central Texas. We were treated very well, it was all you could eat and we ate to our heart's content. Then about 24 hours later we started giving it all back. Food poisoning. I have no idea how I did my long run on Saturday night, but by noon on Sunday I was pretty weak and as a result I didn't make it out for a run yesterday.

This morning I still felt dizzy and a little weak but thought I should try for a couple of miles at least. So I put on my flat shoes and took off, and immediately felt better, like I was flushing the toxins out. One thing about this weather, it is good for flushing. So I ran the whole route in about 1:36 (hoping to get my new Garmin today), average pace about 9:20. I sped up on mile 9 then had to slow down for the last mile because my feet in the thin-soled shoes didn't like the crushed granite jogging trail that I use for the last loop.

As soon as I stopped I felt nauseous again, go figure. I'm feeling tolerable right now and I have a lot to do today, so just pressing on.

One thing I saw Saturday night on my long run I forgot to mention, but I'll do it now. It was a small thing but memorable to me. Just at sunset I saw a bunch of people getting out of 2 or 3 vehicles and going into a house, carrying fireworks and side dishes. No big deal, just another 4th of July party. But then I noticed, from their accents and dress, that they were Indian Americans. How cool is that?

Comments

From Smooth on Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 14:49:16 from 174.23.191.197

WAY to knock out 10 miles and nice pace too consider the heat, the food poison/cleansing and all.

Hope you got something to eat and feeling better now.

That is cool to witness the Native Americans celebrating Independence Day. When I was at the Stadium of Fire, I too saw some Native Americans seated 2 rows in front of us. Our seatmates asked where I was from. They commented that it was pretty cool to see an Asian family participating in an Eagle Scout Court of Honor which only happens in a life time since this is Scouting's 100th year anniversary. I hope my son remembers the special occasion and looks back and tells his son of this event!

From flatlander on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:52:39 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks, can't believe what a busy weekend you had.

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