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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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Sat, Jul 23, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.09	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.09

80F, 85%, SSE 4 mph to start, 84F at finish. Came close to not going out today when I saw it was 80 yet again. Like continuing to go out is enabling behavior -- the running gods see no reason to change the weather if people keep going out. But I needed my run, so out I went. The group was meeting at the Y at 5 for 18, got there on time ready to go, none of the fast runners showed. Just as everybody was leaving I realized I needed to make yet another trip to the facilities. Locked at the Y, so in my car over to the gas station, started out alone 10 minutes later and that is how it stayed the whole run. I met the group coming back after I had gone a little less than 6 miles, which means no way did they do 18. But they were altogether and going even slower than me, so things worked out OK.

I didn't feel good at all this morning, some stomach bug, but when I started running I felt surprisingly good, so decided to do 20, just not that fast. Probably could have done it faster but by the end of the run I was glad I hadn't. Had the EFS thing going and lots of water stops. 20.07 miles in 3:06:56, average 9:18 per mile, fastest mile was 8:43 and the slowest 9:38 other than the first 2. Heart rate started out high 130s and ended up low 160s. Since I was alone I took some of the off-road routes I used to run when I thought I was going to be a trail runner, was nice running them faster than I used to.

Then we took all our kids and our granddaughters to the circus. I would say the circus was the preferred activity today.

Comments

From Rye on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 17:57:48 from 75.174.24.133

Animal.

From Kelli on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 18:08:51 from 71.219.99.3

Busy day!!! Nice HOT run. YUCKY. i am impressed you can do that! My husband ran from 10-12:30 today and it was about 89 when he finished. YUCK YUCK YUCK!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 19:49:33 from 75.109.104.60

Wow, I bet there was a little sweat generated today. Grueling day, nice job. I have yet to try 20 in anything close to weather that bad. Very impressive week as well.

From seeaprilrun on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 22:08:54 from 205.172.12.230

Slog on, friend. I saw on the news this pink area of the nation where it was really freaking hot and it had us all covered in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Stinks to be in the hot zone. It can't last forever!

From allie on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 22:14:29 from 24.10.191.18

long run + the circus? i am very impressed. nice job on getting those miles in today despite the heat and the stomach bug.

From Dan on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 22:58:52 from 24.209.83.20

Impressive. I went out at 2 (long story why I couldn't run at 5 or 6am) - and couldn't make it very far, so hats off to you! Hope you enjoyed the circus.

From Steam8 on Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 18:54:38 from 166.70.55.77

20 with a stomach bug! Way to go grandpa! What a day!

From I Just Run on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:19:38 from 67.79.11.242

Have you ever thought about doing ultra-marathons? Man, you can crank out the miles...even when you don't feel good. Good long run!

From flatlander on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:00:40 from 76.31.26.153

Rye, at times I felt like one of those Ringling elephants.

Kelli, I suspect your husband is much tougher than me. He's a cop and I'm a lawyer, we're on different sides of the law, his is the good side.

Joe, I know better, you are one tough hombre.

April, don't they have something called Red Hot Pink Chicks on this blog? Maybe I should join but haven't been invited yet.

Allie, thanks, great to see you back at strength.

Dan, I wouldn't have even tried to go out at 2. I either get out early or it is a world war going on in my brain as to whether I will get out at all. Don't think I have ever run a single mile in the middle of the afternoon, just too much.

S8, maybe I got a protein burst from the bugs in my stomach!

IJR, yeah, once. Then I realized it was dumb to try to run trails consistently around here. There aren't very many, and they are pretty hazardous in the summertime, too many poisonous serpents. So just a road guy for now, maybe some day I'll switch.

From Kelli on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 19:43:27 from 71.219.99.3

I guess that depends on what kind of lawyer you are!

I agree in the ultras, I bet you would do very well.

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