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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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76F, 87%, SSW 7 mph.  Back to normal running conditions, so might as well do the same old workout.  Ran 4 LHR miles, pace 9:53, then 6 x 1K progressively faster:  8:02 (149), 7:31 (158), 7:22 (161), 7:09 (165), 7:04 (171 and 7:01 (175), average 7:22, maxHR 181.

Just a cell phone picture, but when I was running this morning, right after my 4th split, several large birds settled onto a rooftop right in front of me.  They are turkey vultures, 15 of them.  I obviously need to improve my running form, but at least I got a new slogan for my blog.

Comments
From ACorn on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 16:16:46 from 68.66.168.22

That's a cool pic, whenever I see vultures I think of the Disney film, The Jungle Book.

Solid run!

From Dan on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 19:48:41 from 208.54.85.145

Nice run, is that Burt's house they are on?

From allie on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 21:28:17 from 24.10.191.18

so...what's inside that house? time to investigate.

From flatlander on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:00:44 from 198.207.244.102

ACorn, thanks, these guys seemed much more serious though.

Dan, thanks. You might be right. He has never invited me over, so it could be.

Allie, very good, seriously I hadn't thought of that. Vultures can smell one part per billion or something like that. Reminds me of Rear Window, that old Hitchcock movie where the fu fu dog found the body buried under the flowers in the common area. The birds weren't out there this morning though -- good thing, I was ready to call 911 after reading your comment.

From I Just Run on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:19:38 from 67.79.11.242

There's these two vultures sitting on a fence, see, and one vulture says to the other, "Patience hell - I'm going to go kill something."

From Rye on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:44:45 from 70.58.163.66

I like it! Kind of creepy though. Have you watched the movie Birds lately?

From I Just Run on Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 14:43:54 from 67.79.11.242

I think I was about 10 when I saw that movie. I didn't sleep well for months after watching it :-(

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