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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.080.002.000.006.08

50F, 85% humidity, wind E 6 mph.  Very nice morning.  Slept like a rock last night, never changed positions and woke up with severe neck pain.  It didn't really affect my run, but I've got leftover stomach problems from my travels last week and that did affect my run.  I warmed up 2 miles, the plan was to go 4 hard at faster than HMP, but I could only go 2, my stomach started to hurt badly and I got nauseous.  So I ran the last 2 as a cooldown.  The fast ones were 6:50 (167) and 7:01 (176).  On a better day I think I could have done 4.  Overall 6.08 miles in 51:30, average pace 8:29 per mile, flat shoes.  Right at the beginning of my fast miles a 2-pound yapper came out to greet me, but he just wanted to run.  He kept up with me for a half mile then got distracted by a tree.  Felt pretty dumb getting outrun by a furball.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:18:35 from 131.59.200.82

Hey welcome back - hopefully you can get some rest and are able to normalize soon. I ran terribly for a few days after some bad jet lag in January, but was back to normal in maybe half a week. Good luck!

From Burt on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:21:15 from 206.19.214.144

Yapper. I was pulling weeds in the front lawn Saturday and the neighbor's dog kept yapping at me. I kept saying, "Shut up ya little yapper!"

From derhammer on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 15:11:04 from 192.156.110.40

Welcome back! Good luck this weekend.

From Rye on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 15:28:17 from 75.167.148.155

Don't feel bad about being out run by a fur ball. Hey Burt ... Sounds almost like Chris Farley... I think it was something like "Dad, why don't you just shut your yapper!" I want to live in a van down by the river...

From Burt on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 15:57:26 from 206.19.214.144

I like when he jumps through the table.

From I Just Run on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 16:17:21 from 67.79.11.242

I missed something...do you have a race this weekend?

From flatlander on Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:38:17 from 198.207.244.102

Joe, felt better today already, you must be right.

Burt, somebody could make a fortune if they could actually figure out what goes on inside a dog's head. Forget Alzheimer's (no pun intended), we need a cure for barking.

DH, thanks, hope all is going well.

Rye, I know I shouldn't, but I do. The thing was just too little to be laying down high 6s.

Preston, yeah, doing Beaumont half on Saturday with my friend Wade.

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