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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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Fri, Jul 08, 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%, calm. Just a little bit warmer today, which was good. With the cooler weather yesterday I was afraid that fall was arriving too early. Ran 12.04 all LHR, 2:00:17 total, average 10:00 per mile. I had 9:56 at the 10-mile mark, so I was a little faster today than yesterday, even though the overall average was slower.

I'm glad I am not a body builder. My son does the gym thing every day, he is the master of the gym. He has muscles in all sorts of non-functional places. We both started out at about 165 this year. His goal is to hit 200 and mine is to hit 150. After I came in from the run this morning I found a small packet on the counter, about the size of a Kool-Aid package, the kind without sugar in it. It says:

NAPALM

xTreme Pre-Workout Warfare Training Matrix

Plasma-Scorch Muscle Volume Engorgement Technology

Thermobaric Heat Shock Protein Deployment System

Air Strike Adreno-NeuroCore Heat Inducer

Ultra-Intense . . . Battle Raging Energy, No Creatine, No FIllers, No Fluff, No B.S. (Fruit Punch Flavor)

Two things: I hope I didn't pay for this stuff, but don't really want to know the answer. And I need the number for the HazMat response unit. SlowJoe is coming to town tomorrow, I'm sure he is an expert on these battle-tested powders.

Comments

From derhammer on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:34:02 from 192.156.110.34

Ha, that's a good one. And we laugh at advertising from 50 years ago. There is plenty of it today that is just as amusing.

Nice run, BTW! I agree, we don't need that cool weather showing up too early.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:52:40 from 132.3.53.68

I will get EOD out to your place right away; in the meantime you should back off and cordon the area around the "xTreme Pre-Workout Warfare Training Matrix" so no one gets hurt.

From Kelli on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 14:48:02 from 71.219.69.64

WHAT is the stuff for? Does it create a heart attack while running?

From flatlander on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 18:55:08 from 76.31.26.153

DH, meant to say how much I enjoyed those old ads you posted this week, really funny.

SJ, thanks, I feel better already.

Kelli, I don't know, and probably. These gym rats are into all kinds of garbage. Some of it really does carry through on the threats, which can create a dangerous situation sometimes.

From Dan on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 21:34:28 from 24.209.83.20

Napalm... wow... and people think I am weird for eating avocado pie.

Good run flat!

From allie on Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 13:28:12 from 24.10.191.18

napalm eh? i can already see the veins bulging out of your temples. and is that growling i hear? it must work great!

dan -- how about avocado cheesecake. oh, and avocado creme brulee!

From flatlander on Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 23:31:55 from 76.31.26.153

Dan, avocado pie would be considered perfectly normal food in my house.

Allie, I only walked by it, and not that close, so I think I'm safe.

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