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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.170.000.000.006.17

80F, 85% humidity, cloudy, wind WNW at 3 mph.  Beautiful day for running.  Ran 6.17 in 1:13:33, average pace 11:55 per mile, low heart rate, regular shoes.  I would ordinarily be griping about the slow time, but I am in awe about my ankle pain disappearing completely during the day yesterday.  After the run it didn't stiffen up, and I walked around all day with zero pain, and again during the run today there was no "warmup" to get going, it was good to go from the first step.  I am so happy I don't even care that I am obviously out of shape.

Headed to the airport in a few minutes, back to Utah for my son and daughter-in-law's graduation from BYU.  He drove down with me to Houston over the weekend for his white coat ceremony at the medical school here in town, now back to Utah to finish up there.  We will be back here on Saturday and it may be a while before I come to Utah again, unless I do some more races there.  With all the issues we have with a couple of our kids, it was nice to sit in the ceremony yesterday as they welcomed the entering class into the medical school.  This kid has it together -- the best missionary I ever saw, studied hard in school, married a wonderful wife and getting on with his life.  (Now if he could just keep track of his car keys.)  It gives us hope for the others.  One thing for sure, you can't take credit for the successes of your kids unless you take responsibility for their failures too, and I ain't signin' up for that one.  I'm just a spectator with a checkbook.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:02:05 from 84.11.148.246

Good news all around. Magic ankle, kid "off the books" and succeeding. Bet the fitness comes back pretty quickly as well. Seems like plenty of time to go for that BQ in a couple months.

From Stephen on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:10:20 from 204.182.3.235

That's great news about your ankle! I can relate with "spectator with a checkbook."

Brian and Amy Thurber are both graduating from BYU today at 4:00. We plan to meet up with them there. Not sure about your plans in Utah, but it would be nice to see you again.

From baldnspicy on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 19:39:50 from 72.77.119.73

Congrats on the ankle & your son. That's so awesome!! Rock on!

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