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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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79F, 84% humidity, wind ESE 6 mph.  Great running out there, the sky was getting ugly with the outer bands of Hermine reaching all the way up here.  It has been raining hard all day, I ran very early and it turned out to be the only time today it wasn't raining, also turned out to be the hottest part of the day.  Ran 10.01 miles in 1:49:01, average pace 10:54 per mile, regular shoes.  I felt some weakness in my ankle so decided to go slow today as a precaution.  I needed it anyway, as my legs felt a little tired, and combined with the heavier shoes and higher temperatures it was a slow day.   I was down to 11:30 on my 9th low heart rate mile, so I bagged it and ran the last one in at marathon pace, no point to it but it felt good anyway.  It felt a little fast at first, but at least my heart rate topped out at about 164 so not too bad for the end of the run.  Hopefully I can get in some fast ones tomorrow.

Coming around the bend on my second mile there was an officer sitting there with his window down.  He didn't return my "hey" and I grew alarmed, hurried back into the house to leave a note warning my daughter to tell her ride to be careful -- this guy meant business, very unfriendly.  He wasn't there ten minutes later though, guess there wasn't enough going on in our leafy suburb to keep him busy.  Wouldn't have minded seeing him on Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m. when a teenager coming in from a night of partying accelerated through a stop sign and almost ran me over.  That's all for today from crime central.

Comments
From lightitup on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 18:35:46 from 67.185.20.107

Last time I ran by a cop i was in Gilbert. He was standing there with a radar gun. I asked him if I was speeding but he wasn't amused. Apparently I wasn't....

Watch out for those teenagers! What are you taking to make your injuries just disappear?

From Smooth on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 21:43:08 from 174.23.160.38

Check out your mileage! WOW!!! You're a diehard! Glad you outran the storm!

I think that cop heard there's a speedster in the neighborhood...he was disappointed that he couldn't give you a speeding violation! :)

From flatlander on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:22:34 from 76.31.26.153

E, they are never amused, a very humorless lot, they see only the seamy side of life I guess. Just lucky on the injuries, I eat healthy, use ice and keep moving.

Smooth, thanks, no danger of a speeding ticket. Good thing they don't have a minimum speed in our neighborhood or he would have rung me up for sure!

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