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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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Tue, Oct 12, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.02

66F, 100% humidity, nice familiar running this morning. Back to the routine a little bit. Thought I should get out and stretch my legs. Lots of sore muscles still but gradually getting better. Ran 4.02 miles in 44:53, average pace 11:09, low heart rate and flat shoes. Took my daughter to seminary, parked and ran a route from the church then brought her home.

There is an interesting article in Runners World about regular shoes vs. flat shoes. It was fun to read it because it came to the same conclusions I have reached after running in both for about 10 months. You are faster in flat shoes but you have to be careful because you are stretching and working new muscles and tendons. It's like getting into shape, easy to get injured if you overdo it. Worth it, though, in my opinion, because you are running with a more natural stride when all is said and done. I will say my legs are pretty beat up from running Hartford in them. I brought my new pair and my old pair and decided at the last minute to wear the old ones, on the theory that you don't do anything new on race day. But the old ones are paper-thin on the balls of the feet and there is a 3-miles section on the out and back portion of the course (6 miles altogether) that is concrete with rocks sticking up, kind of a winter traction thing I suppose. It was quite painful and distracting, though I am not counting it as something that ultimately affected my results. But I am not talking anymore about results. Anyway, I am in my new flats now and they feel better on the rough pavement.

Still thinking about Richmond. It appears to be a rolling course with a hill at the end. Sounds very familiar, my kind of course.

Comments

From Rye on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:18:27 from 71.209.52.139

Post marathon aches! Good job in getting out. Hope that Richmond will workout for you. End the year on a good note!

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