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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

Did 30 minutes on elliptical this morning. I limped badly on Monday with the ankle/heel injury, limped around again yesterday but with longer steps, and felt pretty good this morning. The elliptical hurt for a few minutes but I got warmed up the injury receded to mere background noise. Could have gone longer but there was no need, the object today was to just get going again. After showering and walking around, it looks like most of my limp is gone, so still on track to run again starting about Saturday. As I continue to run I notice that I recover from hard runs faster. I wonder if the same is true of injuries. If I can get back to running this week, this injury will have been nothing more than a small glitch. Just speculation though, trying not to count my chickens quite yet.

Instead of running yesterday I ate. Started out with a large breakfast of eggs, rice, toast with butter and jam and orange juice, then a massive lunch at the best Thai restaurant in Houston (it is recruiting season at our law firm) where I ate way too much hot food, followed by a recruiting dinner at a steak house. At dinner I was smart enough to order salmon (yep, I was one of those guys who orders fish at a steak house), but with the salad, sides and dessert it must have added up to 2000 calories. My GI tract rebelled, but I'm back to normal now. I think I gained two pounds yesterday.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 13:10:23 from 84.11.148.246

One of those nice replenishing days every once and awhile can't be all bad. Recruiting season sounds delicious - note to self...get law degree.

From Rye on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:47:25 from 174.27.108.29

I am out on the law degree...Someone told me that takes brains....Hope that the recruiting goes fast or we will be rolling you out the door for your runs lol!!

From RivertonPaul on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:45:23 from 67.42.27.114

Yummy.

From Missee on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03:30 from 97.117.106.192

And a yummy two pounds it was, I'm sure!!!

From lightitup on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:20:07 from 67.185.20.107

So... If I bombed the LSAT, will I lose two pounds? :/

From flatlander on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 22:59:09 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, talk to me before you do anything crazy like that.

Rye, you are on to something. Energy efficiency. A basketball rolls further than a football, ergo the fatter the better.

Paul, you know there is nothing better than sharing the cost with your partners.

Missee, that it was, but interesting that my body didn't really want that much rich food.

E, are going to do it again? Good for you.

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