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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Wed, Jul 04, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
12.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.10

72F, 100% and calm. A little bit cooler again. Full moon out for the entire run, and an audible and visible hoot owl on top of a roof. He was talking to another one that had a higher voice. For the longest time I thought it was a mourning dove, their cries are very similar. Not sure what owls eat in this neighborhood though, maybe frogs. We have good birds here.

I started at 4:25. My back hurt a fair amount to start, then a little bit more at about mile 4, but made it through OK. One water stop at mile 4.7. Total 12.10 miles in 1:52:54, 9:20 per mile, 149 bpm, 162 max, so this was a slightly better run than Monday, even though Monday was a day off.

Then out the door at 7 with my daughter for cooking duties at the ward 4th of July breakfast. Me and 3 other men cooked a million pancakes and eggs to match. Sausage and bacon were pre-cooked. Also set up and cleaned up. But by the time the Scouts got through the line the pancakes and juice were all gone, so no carbs. Resisted the urge to stop by IHOP on the way home. Next time the cook eats first.

Comments

From derhammer on Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:25:54 from 64.245.52.2

Oh yeah, I would have found a way to sneak in some pancakes as I cooked :-)

From Rye on Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:09:46 from 75.174.43.152

I'm chuckling.... Sounds like a typical ward function when food is involved. Are you making any plans to come out west this summer?

From flatlander on Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:12:48 from 76.31.26.153

DH, I found out later that the other cooks did just that. I was the only polite one.

Rye, I think around August 8 I will be out there, but possibly no backpacking this year. There is an informal family activity planned in Bear Lake Valley about then.

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