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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, Jun 18, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.61	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.61

81F, 86%, S 10 mph. Pretty nice morning out there, the breeze felt good. Went to the Y and ran with the regular group, but they were dying on the vine in the heat. We were supposed to go 8 but ended up turning around early and walking parts of it. 7.61 at 9:19 per mile not counting the walking. I thought I was the guy who was in recovery mode. At least I didn't go too hard! Wade wasn't there, so didn't really have anybody to do a regular run with. Started to complain about my marathon a little bit then shut up when I realized I was making a spectacle of myself. Of the ones who had run a marathon, I doubt that many were under 4:30. Wade and I got invited to run with a faster group, so we'll probably do that and see how it goes. Time to ramp it up a little bit starting Monday, but not too much; I ramped up too fast after the last marathon and might have set myself back. Temperature is supposed to return to normal next week, I hope that materializes.

Comments

From Smooth on Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 13:00:22 from 67.2.124.123

I seriously don't know how you run in that kind of heat! Not to rub it in, but it was in the high 50s here this morning! :) NICE JOB getting out there!

Here's to better temp and running with Wade next week! :)

From I Just Run on Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 16:59:11 from 71.41.149.142

Ha ha... had to laugh when I read about your "spectacle"! Isn't it so funny how relative everything is? We go from one end of the spectrum to the other, from complaining to bragging about ourselves...All in the same sentence! I think the Bible has a great verse about that but I won't post it on your Blog ;-)

From Dan on Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 20:47:54 from 24.209.83.20

Invited to the fast group huh? That has to feel good.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 15:55:25 from 184.79.24.255

Yeah I was relieved to see the heat wave may be coming to an end as well. Nice recovering this week, you'll be ready for the faster guys next week.

From flatlander on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 15:31:24 from 198.207.244.102

Smooth, thanks, you can rub it in if you want, we all know I did the same thing last winter.

IJR, post away.

Dan, we'll see, it's kind of tricky especially for long runs because they are either going too slow or too fast or the wrong distance. But there is always a way.

Joe, glad it ended up there at least, seems worse than ever here.

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