For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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

Mon, Aug 08, 2011

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

I have been backpacking in the Wind River range in western Wyoming with my sons Clint and Austin and my son-in-law Scott. We had a good time, but no matter how many miles I have logged this year, it is hard to carry a full pack into the mountains. Elevation was between 9500 and 11000 for the whole time. We probably walked 30 miles altogether, and much of the trail was very steep and rough. But it was an adventure that was worth it. I got a few pictures. For anybody who is knowledgeable, we entered at Elkhart Park, hiked to Seneca Lake, camped, day-hiked into Titcomb Basin and some surrounding peaks, then back out. Short but strenuous.

Here we are at the beginning, hopeful looks in our innocent faces.

This is some of the country we hiked through. Reminded us of Mordor.

Austin and Scott climbed a mountain, I had my limits and went with Clint back to camp to make a fire. We were much relieved when they returned before dark. Even with an almost full moon this is pretty rough country to be hiking in at night..

When we got back to the parking lot at the trailhead, Austin knocked off about 30 pushups before taking his pack off. I have video of it but don't know how to post it without getting a red X. But after he finished I had to try.

At the end everybody was accounted for, despite making several "Red Cross" donations to the local mosquito population.

We also toured Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, had a great time despite driving nearly 3800 miles.

Comments

From Dan on Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 23:38:31 from 24.209.83.20

Wow that is quite the adventure, breath taking views! Smart move going back to start the fire, leave the mountain climbing to others is my motto. You know if you step it up a tad you can hit 3800 miles for the year...

From Smooth on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 00:02:58 from 67.2.107.143

WOW!!! What a fun adventure! thanks for sharing the spectacular pictures, yah including the pushups one! That is sone serious vertical climb especially for a flatlander! :)

From Burt on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 00:29:48 from 72.223.91.148

Awesome.

From Stephen on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:12:14 from 204.182.3.236

Looks like the backpack won, but I can't tell who's underneath.

From flatlander on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 23:10:26 from 76.31.26.153

Dan, dang it, now I'm going to have to do it. Amazing the totally opposite advice you get on piling on the miles. Was just going through Runners World today and in the same issue one guy is saying it does no good to log more than 45 miles per week and another guy is saying the more the better, as long as you run them slow. Actually, I don't have enough days left this year to hit that one, with race tapering and everything.

Smooth, thanks. I hope it did some good, my legs feel trashed today.

Burt, you should come with us sometime, you would really love a trip like this.

Stephen, it's me, I guarantee it.

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