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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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Mon, Jul 18, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.04

77F, 89%, SW 10 mph. Pretty good weather this morning, but trying to rain, which makes the air feel muggier than the official humidity reading. Ran 11 LHR, 10:10 pace. On the last mile I got my son Austin and his friend to video my form at 7:30 pace, worked much better than the phone camera on Saturday. Very surprising how slow that pace looks compared to how it feels. Austin was embarrassed standing out there on the corner with a camera, but that's what teenagers are for. When we tried to send the video to my e-mail account we discovered it is about 270 MB for 1 minute of film. Something screwy about that, I know video eats a lot of MBs but not that much. We have low IT IQs. Total 12.04 miles in 2:01:47, average pace 10:07 per mile.

Austin, 18, says he is going to do an iron man. He is a good swimmer and a dedicated gym rat, so I think he might be able to do it. He gets shin splints all the time which has limited his running, so he is going to have to get around that somehow. He is leaving for college in a month and thinks doing something like this will keep him out of trouble. I think he might be right, but I told him no bike until Christmas, when he will have a better feel for how this is going. I'm guessing he can buy a pretty good used tri-bike from a washed out yuppie somewhere.

Comments

From I Just Run on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 16:51:50 from 67.79.11.242

When you start looking for a Tri or Raod Bike look into Botecchia. They distribute them out of Houston. I bought one for my daughter and everyone who has looked at it says it was a very good value and quality although not that well known. It's all carbon. We've have it the shop for minor adjustments and the bike pros though it was much more expensive than what we paid.

From PRE on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:02:16 from 99.50.214.225

Nice miles. Are you finding that your pace is slowing due to the heat? Interesting comment from "I Just Run." I have been entertaining an Ultra (50 miles) and a Tri. Not ready for either. But the seed is planted. And regarding bike purchases...well I am not much of a shopper. I was in the store a few weeks ago. My 8 year old son was riding a bike with a front flat tire. So I purchased a bike at a Bike Store. Paid $300.00 for it. But probably overpaid.

From Dan on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 23:33:48 from 24.209.83.20

Ironman eh, I think I will stick with the movie version. Nice miles, hot too- feeling your pain.

Pre- For a quality bike at a bike shop, that is ok price- it just goes up from there.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:36:08 from 132.3.53.68

I think there is a way to convert the huge file into another compressed format, but I have a low IT IQ as well. Might be a program you can download.

You'll have to update us on the Ironman quest. It's something I want to try a few years down the road...

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