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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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Thu, Jun 17, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

Beautiful morning today in NYC, left the hotel at about 6:30 and ran up to Central Park, around inside (just gorgeous) and back in about 80 minutes. I didn't have a working Garmin until 20-25 minutes in, so not sure of the exact distance, but I was doing mid to low 9s once I started to get a reading, so I am calling it 8 miles. I ran in flats, average heart rate about 150. First miles since the marathon. I had a little bit of hip pain to start my new training cycle, I think it might have resulted from walking so much yesterday. We must have walked 5 miles and I am not used to that. Believe it or not, it is a different kind of fitness than running. None of my old aches and pains, though, it appears that my ankle/knee/groin issues are ancient history.

I can't believe I lived here for three years and never ran in Central Park. Maybe because I wasn't a runner then? Made me think of a law school classmate who was spotted frequently running in Riverside Park while smoking a cigarette and carrying a Miller Lite for hydration. He was one of the higher performers in our class, so I'm sure he had a point, just that none of us knew what it was. I'm guessing he would claim he was substituting nicotine for caffeine and alcohol for ibuprofen. There is a runner out there for every theory.

There is a beautiful reservoir at the top of the park that has a crushed granite jogging path around it. It must have rained last night because the path was covered with puddles to the point you couldn't get through without tiptoe-ing, which all the locals were doing. But not me. I trucked right through and splashed as many old ladies, poodles and investment bankers as I could find. My daughter was embarrassed when I bragged about it, which only made me even happier about this run.

Comments

From KP on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:55:48 from 65.208.22.26

ha! first, i love that you splashed right through the middle of the puddles. i do the same exact thing! secondly, i am liking your law school buddies thinking... interesting. well, minus the cigarette; that is just gross :) third, keep on embarrassing your daughter!

hope you're having a fantastic vacation! it looks like you're recovering nicely from the marathon.

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 23:37:42 from 69.153.187.169

Way to show those fussy yank's how to run. Sounds like a nice vacation thus far.

From flatlander on Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:18:24 from 75.236.220.55

Thanks KP, very happy about my recovery so far, none of my old injuries are around any more.

Joe, I was looking for puddles again this morning but they are all gone now. Some other time I guess.

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