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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, May 30, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.13	6.00	0.00	0.00	8.13

79F, 82%, SSE 10-21 mph. Suprisingly nice weather out there despite the temperature and wind. I am now two weeks out, so won't be running anything more than 8 for the duration. Warmed up two miles then took 6 at GMP: 7:41 (152), 7:26 (160), 7:23 (162), 7:32 (168), 7:20 (174) and 7:12 (179). Overall 8.13 miles in 1:05:45, average pace 8:05, max heart rate 182. Despite the junky heart rates, I feel good and am looking forward to running a respectable race at UVM.

Afterward I sat down outside to dry off. It is actually quite nice at these temperatures just at sunrise, so long as no running is involved. I saw a guy fishing and several different kinds of birds. A great blue heron fishing along the edge of the lake and 6 or 8 red-wing blackbirds just being busy, couldn't tell that they were accomplishing anything. These two are old friends from my days as a kid in Bear Lake Valley. The red-wings have just recently shown up in my neighborhood, very cool. Also saw mockingbirds eating bugs in the grass and arguing in the trees, two different kinds of swallows darting around like point guards, grackles (yuck) and a circling vulture who had an eye on me. Three different kinds of airplanes, but I guess I can't count those. Gotta love the long holiday weekends.

Comments

From JG on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:06:29 from 74.190.127.138

Great job on GMP miles & nice bird watching!

From Dave S on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 18:16:14 from 4.254.221.20

Nice job on the run! Did you grow up on the Utah or Idaho side? I'm assuming that's the Bear Lake you mean? I always like to see and hear those Red Winged Blackbirds. Always one of the first signs of spring.

From I Just Run on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 00:25:27 from 71.41.149.142

Wait a minute...Are you messing with us? I don't think these two sentences (" 79F, 82%, SSE 10-21 mph. Surprisingly nice weather out there despite the temperature and wind.")should go together in the same run report! Maybe those vultures sense the hallucinations just before death...!

From flatlander on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:05:33 from 76.31.26.153

JG, yeah, usually there are quite a few ducks around, mostly mallards but some others occasionally. Didn't see any today though.

Dave, yes, my dad had a rock quarry on the east side of the lake, he put the sandstone on several of the churches in Bear Lake Valley. We lived there until about 1968, so a long time ago. I see you live in Preston, I've driven through there more times than I can count, still go up Emmigration Canyon occasinally looking for huckleberries but haven't found any in the last several trips.

IJR, I decided long ago that any day you are out running is by definition great running weather. Some day too soon it will all be over. Funny though, today felt hotter than yesterday. I guess it was just one of those days when everything clicks.

From flatlander on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:11:08 from 76.31.26.153

Dave, forgot to mention, our house was in Wardboro, which is on the outskirts of Dingle, which is on the outskirts of Montpelier. Idaho side all the way!

From Dave S on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 21:36:35 from 4.254.225.224

Wow! good thing. You know about those Utah folks across the border. Ha Ha. Actually I grew up in Sandy Utah. I've lived hear 16 yrs but still feel like a newcomer sometimes. I do know where Dingle is and also where some of those huckleberry patches are.

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