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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 21, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
16.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	16.05

81F, 94%, SSW 9 mph. Hot and blow-ey. Yesterday I helped my nephew and his family move, despite my back issues. (He is just starting dental school here in Houston.) I was worried about it, but went anyway and stayed away from heavy lifts. The workout actually seemed to help my back, which felt better for the rest of the day. So I was out the door at 4:55, dropped off a towell at Wade's house for the ride home in soaked running clothes, ran to the Y, got in another mile running around the Y and met Wade with 8.14 already under my belt. We ran 3 together, then met the running group at 7:00 a.m. for 5 more. I took Gatorade instead of water on the last 5, as an experiment. Stomach didn't like it too much, not that I couldn't get used to it. But I remember from early marathon experiences that I stop processing Gatorade sooner than I stop processing water.

Wore my shirt backwards the whole way, nobody told me, kind of like going home from a party and seeing food on the face. (Just a hypothetical, of course.)

Finished with 16:05 miles in 2:29:19, 9:18/mile, 154 bpm, 176 bpm max. Interesting comparison to Monday, a 15-mile run, 8:59 per mile, 152 bpm. The difference is the temperature, I think. Anything over 60F is significant, but things deteriorate rapidly as the thermometer progresses through the 70s. Hopefully I can up my mileage next week.

I got home to discover that my younger granddaughter had been loudly demanding my presence -- she has an agenda for the day and things were getting behind schedule. She was pretty disgusted when they told her I was out running, because it makes me "sweaty and stinky". So I partially redeemed myself by making waffles for the whole clan.

Comments

From Rye on Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 17:40:02 from 174.27.77.145

"Loudly demanding my presence" You know you sound a lot like a la.... Hey it's good to see you have a good long run. Enjoy the rest of the day.

From PRE on Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 19:33:38 from 99.50.213.11

Hope the back issue gets resolved soon and does not interfere too much with running. And the wearing of the shirt backwards, it's probably in fashion somewhere.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 07:33:15 from 69.131.141.92

That's some good suffering, nice run. I have definitely done the backwards shirt thing too. I blame it on getting dressed in the dark, but not sure that excuse is valid.

From allie on Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 07:43:47 from 174.23.135.116

nice job running all those miles with your shirt on backwards.

waffles for all!

From Burt on Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 14:06:16 from 72.223.80.161

A true friend tells you when you have food on your face.

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