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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 03, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.20

81F, 78% humidity, 87 heat index, wind ESE 12 mph. This was a goodbye run instead of a hello run, meaning I put Mr. Sun to bed instead of getting him out of bed. I woke up this morning at my usual time, 5:30, but I was sleeping on an air mattress in Temple, Texas, at my daughter's house. The rain was coming down in sheets, there were no street lights, I had no Garmin and no map and I had stayed up past midnight, so I promised myself I would run tonight and rolled over and slept until 9:00. This caused a number of comments since I brag too often about getting up early.

So after driving back to Houston it was time to keep my promise. It has been raining so much that it wasn't as hot as it could have been, but still hotter than morning runs. The light was somewhat the same as well, to the extent I blurted out a hearty "good morning" to one friendly but startled couple innocently walking their dog. Would have been good if it was in another neighborhood, but it was my own. I'm sure that one will get around.

The first couple of miles were painful with a shin splint that appeared out of nowhere, but no way was I going to post a 2 after missing 20 last Saturday. So I ran through it and it disappeared. Ended up doing all 20 in 3:48, which comes out to about a 10:50 pace. Doesn't sound very fast but it was difficult. Not quite as bad as I felt after the marathon three weeks ago which I ran about 1:40 per mile faster, but it was in the neighborhood. The heat is brutal but I have to keep trying or I will lose 6 months.

Comments

From lightitup on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:34:04 from 67.185.20.107

Nice! Great job. I just got home too, from two weeks of vacation and a total of 4 miles of running and way too much eating. I have Monday through Wednesday to convince my body I'm still a runner before Thursday's surgery.

From Burt on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:51:57 from 68.225.214.248

This is awkward. I already told you to have a safe and happy 4th of July weekend, and now I'm back. Hummm...I don't know what to say now...

Nice job with the 20. That's a lot of running.

Hi Lightitup! What surgery are you having? Hope it goes well.

From Smooth on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 20:11:01 from 174.23.191.197

WOW! That's a L-O-N-G run at the end of a holiday weekend visiting with your daughter and family. WAY to power thru the shin splint. Hope you're having a restful Sunday.

From lightitup on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 21:12:42 from 67.185.20.107

Burt, left inguinal hernia repair, not laparoscopic. Almost I am convinced to rejoin this blog with runner reports, except that for the next six weeks....nada running.

From Rye on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 22:20:54 from 97.121.11.186

Super run flat...Way to take it easy on the holiday weekend. I have a little thing going at home, running 10 to 16 miles before anyone at home thinks about waking up...hope that you don't have to take too much verbal abuse on the 9am thing....

From flatlander on Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:47:51 from 75.247.168.232

E, good luck on the surgery. Please let me know sooner than later how you are feeling.

Burt, not awkward at all, glad you checked back in. Hope you had a good weekend.

Rye, that's the secret, it's the way we do this and still have everybody else think we are normal.

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