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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.660.000.000.009.66

75F, 70% humidity, very Houston-esque.  Ran the same route (Katy Trail) as the last two days in Dallas, 9.66 miles, but this time ran it in the morning and at low heart rate, regular shoes.  Took about 2 hours.  Much easier but my legs needed it.

The trail in the morning is very crowded, great for people watching.  I guess the strangest thing I saw was coming up on a lady with a baby stroller.  I saw everybody coming the other way looking into her stroller.  As I passed I glanced back and it was the strangest looking baby, actually it was a dog.  Something is very wrong there.

I passed on the 5K this morning, no way to register and probably wasn't a good idea anyway.  They were just putting everything away except the outhouses as I ran past the start line.  Coming back the other way toward the end of my run I decided that the port o potty placement was very strategic.

Comments
From KP on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:18:05 from 65.208.22.26

while i was in DC, i saw a man carrying a dog in one of those baby carriers you wear on your chest where the baby faces forward. i thought that was odd. people are just too into dogs these days. it is an animal.

From flatlander on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:01:49 from 76.31.26.153

I had dinner with a client last night who admitted that he once spent $1,000 on a vet bill for a pet lizard. If it wasn't an expensive lizard when he bought it I guess it quickly became one.

From KP on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:31:27 from 98.67.171.202

i have some running friends that don't have any kids that recently spent nearly $15,000 on their dog that is having digestion issues. i nearly fainted when they were telling me that.

From SlowJoe on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 23:03:05 from 184.79.24.255

I used to like pets before we had kids. Now I would pull the plug on our cat if the bill was more than 99 cents.

Nice mileage again in the yuck.

From jasro on Thu, May 27, 2010 at 20:53:26 from 64.255.180.191

Good run. Way to stay with it.

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