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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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80F, 86%, SW 6 mph.  Weather was OK for 3 or 4 miles, then started to feel really hot, maybe because it was.  I ran 6 LHR miles, 10:01 pace, then planned to run 5 at 7:10, but failed.  Splits were 7:19 (162), 7:14 (171) and 7:24 (176), plus a stub split.  I stopped for water then couldn't get going again, decided to fight another day.  Ran a cooldown mile and called it a day.  Overall 10.18 miles in 1:31:50, average pace 9:01 per mile.

Things are busy around the house.  My wife is taking a Spanish final tonight, she is graduating in about 2 years, after raising 4 children and nearly done with the 5th.  She was talking all weekend about how she bombed a test she took on Thursday.  I came home last night and asked her what she got.  97.  I knew some girls like her in grade school, or at least I knew their names.  They sat on the front row with their hands in the air.  The teacher never looked at me, couldn't see that far back.  Now I'm married to one of them.

Comments
From I Just Run on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:49:05 from 67.79.11.242

Last year, at this time, I was only running 3 or 4 miles per day and I don't think I noticed the heat and humidity. The first few miles seem okay but after 3 or 4 you really start feeling the effects.

BTW...I'm married to one too...that's all I have to say about that :-)

From Smooth on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 22:31:42 from 67.2.87.128

That is a dang good LT run in hot humid condition!

Your wife is cool! :) Tell her hello and congratz from me! :)

Oh, I'll PM you on the Boston hotel in just a sec.

From Steam8 on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:48:42 from 166.70.55.77

I don't know how all you running Texans run in that heat! You are pumping out the miles! Nice job!

I love your wife....she sounds just like one of my sister when she was finishing nursing school! Perfectionist! I hope you took her out to celebrate! :)

From flatlander on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 16:02:44 from 198.207.244.102

Thanks everybody. She took her final last night, so pins and needles. Of course she says she failed it, so I'm guessing 93 this time. But she baked cookies for the professor (another front row thing, I would have never thought of that), so I'm betting on an A.

From allie on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 16:34:28 from 161.38.218.168

that is very hot. good run. no worries about the pace -- it's still good training, and as you said -- you can fight another day.

congrats to your studious wife.

From seeaprilrun on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 21:04:20 from 174.70.177.86

Congratulations to your wife! I feel the same way in the heat...the effects seem to multiply over time. You are brave to attempt the tempo in it...I just can't bring myself to run fast in it...I wimp out and default to the treadmill.

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