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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

Tue, May 29, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00

I have been to two different chiros now and they are both saying the same thing, that it isn't a herniated disc but sciatic nerve passing through the psoas, which has probably been aggravated from a recent uptick in weights. I guess that's right, it's all I have to go on right now. Ran a mile this morning and it hurt a lot, although I am getting around OK today. Needless to say, Grandma's Marathon is a scratch. It seems that an aggressive stretching regimen is going to get me past this the quickest. I am spinning for an hour every morning and started back on weights yesterday. There is some discomfort with that but it is on a different order than running or even walking. Those are the only two activities that give me trouble.

Comments

From derhammer on Tue, May 29, 2012 at 16:28:10 from 64.245.52.2

The good news I guess is that it is not a herniated disk. I had a sciatic never issue so I know how painful it can be. I tried to run through it and messed up my other leg due to trying to compensate for the pain. I was in a world of hurt. Therefore, I think the spinning is a good course of action. The sciatic issue ended up being that one of my lower back muscles wasn't firing properly. What to look for is not something I can explain with text, unfortunately.

From Dan on Tue, May 29, 2012 at 18:01:27 from 24.209.83.20

Oh man. Speaking from very recent experience nerve pain is no fun. It also made me injure my aductor area by compensation. Be sure to do any and all therapy they give you. Hopefully you will heal nicely before too long.

From SlowJoe on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:16:52 from 155.219.241.10

Hoping for a speedy recovery. Keep up the cardio - glad you are able to do some cycling.

From I Just Run on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:02:09 from 67.79.11.242

I used to lift a lot of weights. There are so many things you can do (wrong) that can cause problems. I really avoid any weight exercises that create compression or twisting on my spine.

From Burt on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 19:18:32 from 72.223.82.180

Can't they remove that nerve?

And by they, I mean the people that faked the moon landing.

From Rye on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 22:09:40 from 174.27.90.169

Did I hear that you might try to fit in TOU? If you do, we should hookup. That is what I am shooting for anyway. Maybe IJR could win some money at roping and make the trip too.

Burt... what???we landed on the moon.....that is so cool!

From flatlander on Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:47:02 from 198.207.244.102

David, still not completely convinced, but more and more the nerve pain seems to be moving into my piriformis, so I guess the chiros are right.

Dan, I had real nerve pain about 4 years ago, when I got an MRI and it showed a herniated disc very plainly. This is kind of the same but different. Not really worried yet, although the interruption is aggravating.

Joe, in order to swim I would have to join a different gym and I think the spinning is probably as good if not better. Would be nice to break it up, though.

Preston, weights may have exacerbated this whole thing in the first place, but I need them. My son is pretty knowledgeable, although he isn't an expert on the injury aspect, for sure.

Burt, that would be option C, but just in case can you send me a private message with contact info?

Rye, I am certainly considering it, although I know already that altitude will be a problem. I have never run a really good marathon at altitude, too big of a hit for us coastal types. If they had hot weather like St. George it could get interesting, but that isn't likely in Logan.

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