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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
12.820.000.001.2514.07

76F, 95%, calm.  Humidity coming down slowly but surely.  Ran 6 LHR miles, average 10:02, then 10 x 200 as fast as I could run, which wasn't very fast.  Pacing was 6:10, 6:18, 6:20, 6:08, 5:53, 6:04, 6:05, 6:07, 6:11, 5:57, average 6:08, 200 recovery.  Then another 5 or 6 at about 8:50 pace, total 14:07 miles in 2:12:18, average 9:24 per mile, maximum heart rate 182.  I need some speed.

My workplace is somewhat Darwinian.  We have summer interns here now trying to qualify for permanent positions, presumably because there is nothing else to do in the heat.  It all started when an e-mail went around announcing that our building is putting in a free workout facility with lockers and showers.  So one of the summer interns sends out a "reply to all" which says:  "Wow, pretty stoked about this new gym. Just when I thought my deltoids couldn't get any more ripped.  If I join the frim, will you be my workout partner Shaw (by the looks of it, you might need a workout partner)?"  Shaw, in addition to being a potential workout partner, is actually a partner.  He writes back:  "There is a point every summer where a summer associate makes an unwise decision. We set the over/under this year at 4 weeks after the program started. I took the under...looks like I win."

Which ones are the deltoids again?  I'm gonna take this kid for a run.

Comments
From Dan on Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 23:45:07 from 24.209.83.20

hahaha make sure it is an out and back run, so he can feel the burn :)

From allie on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 00:29:39 from 24.10.191.18

hahaha. great story. nice job on the 200s.

From I Just Run on Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:55:03 from 67.79.11.242

Real life is so ammusing some time ... I laughted so hard!

BTW...I'll trade some speed for some cardio :-)

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