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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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76F, 94% humidity, clear and calm.  Beautiful morning for running.  About Saturday afternoon, 6 or 7 hours after my long run, my right foot, top outside, became painful and difficult to walk on.  That continued all the way through last night at bedtime.  I was praying pretty hard for some relief, I really didn't want to take on another injury.  I think it happened from changing my stride due to the blister I got on the same foot.  I was afraid of a stress fracture, though I have never had one so far as I know.  It was still sore this morning, but I strapped on regular shoes and after a hundred yards it was gone for good.  I don't usually mix running and spiritual matters (other than occasionally shaking my fist at the running gods), because running is a sport for all kinds of people, religious, agnostic, indifferent and anti.  But this one was a blessing, I am sure of it, and I am grateful.  My left hip made an appearance at mile 3.5, but I know that one, I just stretched out and slowed down my stride, tried to maintain proper form, and it went away.  Not something to ignore, but controllable.

So I ran about 6.2 miles in 59 minutes, average pace about 9:30, including some high 10s and high 8s, as best I can tell.  The Garmin is still kaput.  I thought I had it nailed as a moisture issue, but it isn't that, something else.  I'll probably need to get a new one.  It is kind of fun to run a few days without it, but long term I need that machine. 

Looking forward to a good running week.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 23:43:18 from 184.79.24.255

The running gods giveth, I see! Now if they could do something about that humidity in Houston.

From KP on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:38:18 from 65.208.22.25

i shake my fist at the running gods too...

From Huans32 on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:01:10 from 138.64.8.52

LOL was the issues from the rain at UVM. I lost my garmin from SGM like 2 yrs ago. It never really worked right after that. Good thing the wife has one for me to use when I need to know my splits and such. Next purchase for me will be that 315xt I think its called. Where you can use it swimming. Just need to wait for the price to come down some though.

From jasro on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:04:21 from 198.50.4.4

'tis true ... the running gods giveth and the running gods taketh away. I'm glad it was your turn to receive.

From flatlander on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 19:50:55 from 198.207.244.102

Thanks everybody. Mark, you may have nailed it. UVM was rainy and it hasn't worked well since then. Finally ordered a new one today.

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