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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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Up all night on a call with China.  Really loving life this morning.

Comments
From I Just Run on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:23:51 from 67.79.11.242

So I finally figured out what would keep you from running 15-20 miles....NO SLEEP :-( Sorry...I bet you're tired!

From Steam8 on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 19:38:37 from 166.70.55.77

Haha! You forgot the seminary run. That must have been fun to do this morning with no sleep! Did you make your wife drive this morning? I hope you are sleeping now and make up for the lack of last night tonight!

From SonofaFlatlander on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 19:52:53 from 99.126.80.49

If it was me, an all-nighter would keep me out of my running shoes for 2-3 days. I'm sure you'll be back at it tomorrow. Hope the call was productive at least

From Dan on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 21:48:31 from 24.209.83.20

Sorry about that, at least we are past the days of collect calls... ok that's no help. Hope you got some rest finally.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:59:12 from 132.3.53.68

Nice of you to get on THEIR schedule! How's your Chinese coming along?

From flatlander on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:49:41 from 198.207.244.102

Preston, no sleep, and you can add sore throat to that list. There was a time when I would have gone out anyway. Losing my edge I guess.

Steam, we didn't have to do it this morning. They are gradually getting enough teenage drivers that the parents don't have to do the run from church to school. Still responsible for getting her to the church, but we are switching off on that and this is our off month. Thankfully.

Clint, can't say it was that productive, but I got through it. They wanted a turn of the draft by the end of the day and I basically told them no. A different client wants us to come to Beijing next week even though they know it is Thanksgiving. My partner is going but I got out of it.

Dan, yes I caught up some, but probably not enough, I have a bad cold now.

Joe, it's a little rusty, as they say.

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