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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, Mar 19, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.11	6.00	0.00	0.00	19.11

Saturday morning here in Beijing now. One quick tourist stop and then to the airport and home through the radiation. Made one last trip to see Mr. Treadmill this morning, 9 more at low heart rate. It was so early when I got in that the gym didn't have many lights on, just a few lights that created a mood lighting effect. I figured it would be just me but there was an unusual woman already in there, walking quickly on the treadmill. She was about 50, wearing a silk blouse with tight-fitting, knee-length jeans, which was OK. She was also wearing nylons, which was not OK. She was also wearing high heels. I guessed that she was in from an all-night party and had an 8:00 appointment for which she needed to be sober. Definitely one of the more unusual running guests I have seen. But then I reminded myself that I was wearing a hat, indoors, in the dark, and Brazilian dancing flats with a color scheme that most closely resembles the rentals at the 24-hour Bowl-a-Rama. In light of that, I wonder what her report was this morning.

P.M. We flew directly over the reactor in Japan coming home today. Have to wonder about United. As I arrived back in Texas I realized that I missed Tuesday but got two Saturdays this week, so decided to go out again since it had been a full 24 hours from this "morning's" run, which was really Friday night Houston time. I intended to do 10 at low heart rate. But it was about 80F and my heart rate wasn't staying low with the temperature and my jet-lagged legs unless I wanted to run in the 11s, which I wasn't willing to do since the family had things planned. After 3-1/2, I saw a guy about a quarter mile ahead and it was like a dog seeing a rabbit, my discipline was gone, almost trash talked him when I passed him but managed at least to hold that one in. I ran the last 6 in 8:02, 7:59, 7:53, 7:46, 7:56 and 7:25. Kind of a MP run, overall 10.11 miles in 1:27:54, average pace 8:41 per mile for the whole 10.

Pretty good week considering all the travel. Nerves in my right leg have been bothering me for the last couple of months, the faster I run the more they hurt later in the day but usually better the next morning in time to do it again. Driving can be painful at times. It comes from a herniated disk I got in the summer of 2008, after an especially bad (and my last) round of golf. That being said, the plan is to ramp it up again next week assuming my body holds up.

Comments

From lightitup on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 21:01:53 from 71.37.138.33

High heels and nylons on the treadmill at 0800? She needs intravenous caffeine. STAT

From Rye on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 23:03:00 from 71.209.42.202

High heels on a treadmill....silk blouse on top of that.... hope she didn't work up too much of a sweat. If you had worn sunglasses .... well then you have gone too far.

From Dan on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 23:12:14 from 24.209.83.20

I admit, a video of this would be comical... if that is the right choice of words

From lightitup on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:44:52 from 71.37.138.33

Did you take a deep breath when you flew over the nuclear reactor site? Maybe the rest of us can start to catch up, now that you've been irradiated?

From flatlander on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:59:01 from 76.31.26.153

Elaine, thanks for checking in, hope all is going well. Sorry to be ignorant, but what does "STAT" mean?

Rye, I knew I forgot something, should have gone back up to my room, I'm guessing some of the guys at her party still had their shades on at 3 a.m.

Dan, my colleague, who is from China, said women do everything in high heels there, just a cultural thing I guess.

Elaine, I was sleeping but they have that flight path screen on the TV, and when I saw it I knew I had been zapped.

From PRE on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 17:10:24 from 99.50.214.225

Hi Flatlander,

Welcome back. Great run today. Nice pickup on the final six miles.

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