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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

Fri, Oct 28, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
14.51	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.51

55F, 89%, NNW 13-18 mph. The new running season has finally arrived, but I was already missing summer when I stepped out into the chilly breeze. Hard to make me happy. Woke up before the alarm and ran a slightly different route due to the seminary break being at mile 7 instead of mile 6. I always feel less sleepy all day when I wake up ahead of the alarm. There is apparently an iPhone app that senses your body movements in bed and the alarm is flexible; within a certain window it goes off when you are the peak of a sleep cycle, when you are almost awake anyway. But I don't have an iPhone, too poor after buying them for my kids. I wouldn't take one to bed anyway, too weird. However, if I could rig it so that my kids' iPhones go off instead of mine, I might consider buying the phone and the app.

More LHR miles, from now to eternity. 14.51 miles in 2:20:10, average pace 9:40, all under 10 except for the warmup miles. Got a 9:18, which isn't a LHR PR but not that far away, and I improved every day this week from Tuesday on, with a big assist from the weather today. Off to Temple to see my granddaughters for the weekend. Sweet dreams.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 21:12:28 from 75.109.104.60

You'll be crushing those LHR PRs in no time. Have a nice trip.

From Steam8 on Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 22:15:48 from 166.70.55.77

It is pretty cold here too. I missed all of the great fall running weather. I had to wait to run until 12, so that I didn't freeze!

I have an iphone and you are right...way too expensive. Just use your kids, they shouldn't be using them at night anyway! ;)

Yes, you run 26.2 on the Great Wall. Can you imagine anything more amazing? They say that it can be pretty dangerous in a couple of spots, but I haven't heard of anyone getting hurt yet. Just Google it. It looks amazing. A friend of mine that ran Boston last year, ran the Great Wall the next month and his wife ran the half. He said it was surreal! I will be doing it May 2013 since I will be doing Boston this year in April. It would be fun to get a bunch of FRBers to save up and all go over together!

From Dan on Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:31:54 from 76.250.141.181

Have a good trip. Is there an App that will run for you?

From flatlander on Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:30:41 from 166.249.200.108

Joe, LOL, LHR king here.

Steam, I dunno, I have been on the Great Wall and it is steep. I am a klutz and I can see myself taking a spill at some point. Fascinating idea though.

Dan, there is, but it wants to share the credit.

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