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, Jan 03, 2011

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

Taking the day off, might take a few days off although I feel pretty good. Now that I have slept on it a couple of nights, still very happy about Saturday's race, but pretty sure there will be better days. A few wind-up items and then I will put it to bed:

1. It was only a 2-minute PR but it was significant in a couple of ways. I moved down one age bracket in the BQ chase, and for women I am now BQ-qualified in the open category (no surgery planned, however). I also beat my old long-term goal of 3:40.

2. I put the finisher's medal on a food scale (you can tell that work is busy today). It weighs 48 ounces, exactly 3 pounds, so they exaggerated when they said it was 5 pounds. By comparison, however, I weighed last year's medal and it was a mere 30 ounces, so this year is a definite improvement.

3. Looks like my official finishing place is 39th out of 317, not 37th and not quite a top 10% finish. I am listed 40th by gun time, but I was 30 seconds late crossing the starting mat so one slower runner is listed ahead of me. I was the 36th male and second in age group by about 1 minute. My daughter finished the half 30th overall out of 300, 10th female and first in her age group.

4. To squelch a nasty rumor started by Burt, I am not making up my spill at mile 16.5. Here is the photographic evidence, which I think documents a pretty bad owie. Sorry if anybody is squeamish, but this is not a pretty sport. (Burt, it's the left leg, and you can tell by the bony knee structure that it is mine.)

Comments

From Stephen on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 16:32:28 from 174.52.135.96

Beautiful! Too bad it was a head-on collision. Impact from behind would have sped you up even more.

From Rye on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 18:15:42 from 174.27.115.129

Love the blood! Enjoy those calm days at work. Oh by the way, I have some ointment that my help you recover from that spill.....afterwards you can use it to clean your oven.

From allie on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 20:05:21 from 174.23.238.75

ouch! cool picture, and nice recap of your race. 3 pounds is still pretty hefty for a medal :)

From Burt on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 20:34:16 from 206.19.214.144

Oh yeah, that's your bony knees. That's how I spotted you at London's Run.

From derhammer on Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:38:11 from 65.67.40.73

Yikes.

How about posting a pic of that medal - I need to see that.

From flatlander on Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:49:12 from 198.207.244.102

Thanks all. David, the medals are now in my new blog picture. I'll have to take a close-up photo at some point.

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