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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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Wed, Jun 22, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.32	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.32

82F, 82% S 7 mph to start, 70F, 88%, N 26 at end. No injury, no worries, the truncated miles are weather-driven, in a good way. It was the same old story when I stepped out this morning, very hot and very muggy. Then about a mile and a half in I started hearing loud noises, first a moan and then a roar, in the tops of the trees. Almost biblical out there in the dark. Within 10 steps the wind turned and I felt a blast out of the north. If not cold it was certainly cool. Weather station is posting 70F and 26 mph, but it is cooler and windier than that out there. At first it was just the wind, then a few drops at mile 3. At mile 3.5 I heard some thunder so distant that I thought I was imagining it. Then everything let loose and I came scurrying in. Thunder means lightning, which is dangerous, the one weather condition I don't run in. We may not have mountains here, or any hills for that matter, but south Texas thunderstorms are the best, they shake the ground. Still raining hard an hour later, hopefully they are getting a good dose in Central Texas. Too bad really, it was nice and cool out there, but best to live to run another day -- and to do all the other things I have to do in this life.

4.35 LHR in 43:46, average pace 10:08.

Comments

From Huans32 on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:19:30 from 138.64.8.51

Man duck and cover for sure man. That is a scare situation. Glad I got some mountains around me.

From Stephen on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:19:33 from 204.182.3.235

Long live the running king! I'm glad you can live to run another day.

From I Just Run on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:44:50 from 67.79.11.242

Ha ha...The heavy stuff had already passed so I got to run in a light rain...It was GREAT! We got 2.75 inches last night and it's still raining ;-)

The end of your blog reminded me of the end of a novel. Maybe you could write a complete story around it!

From JG on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:24:43 from 74.190.130.251

Cool you are getting some much needed rain ... we just had one of those move in here, luckily I was already back from my run, as it came out of no where here too! Glad you got 4+ in!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 20:52:47 from 75.109.104.60

Better than no run at all, for sure. That's quite a quick change in conditions - those summer t-storms are definitely violent; we had downed power lines and trees Tuesday morning.

From Dan on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 23:40:43 from 24.209.83.20

I run between storms too- lightning is one thing to avoid. Good job getting the miles in!

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:49:02 from 174.70.177.86

I echo your sentiments on running in thunderstorms--the one condition for me that is just a no-go. too dangerous.

From flatlander on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:43:16 from 198.207.244.102

Mark, thanks, good thing was it lasted all day, we needed it.

Stephen, don't know about that, but definitely in favor of running another day.

IJR, it would be a pretty sappy novel, I'm afraid, but those are the ones that sell, right?

JG, the good thing was it stayed relatively cool for this mornig, had a good run today.

SJ, we lost reception on our dish (for at least 10 minutes), so I consider Houston a national disaster area for one day.

Dan, we had lightning knock out the street lamp in front of our house once. Basically blew it apart, pretty spectacular.

April, luckily most thunderstorms happen in the afternoon around here.

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