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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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51F, 37% humidity, wind NNE 4 mph.  I lie not.  Wasn't quite the 40F that was forecast but still a 20 degree drop from yesterday, cannot describe how good it felt this morning.  I slept in and went for the flat shoes, a day early, strapped them on and away I went.  First mile 10:56, trying to start easy to avoid pulling something, which I am prone to do with colder temperatures.  Soon sped up, though, and everything else was in the 9s except for the last one, 10:02.  Overall I ran 10.15 miles in 1:40:21, low heart rate, average pace 9:53.  I really don't expect to see many more lows over 60F.  My hands were frozen solid by the time I finished, they felt better after a long, hot shower.  I know y'all are laughing at me down here, but please allow me some time to grow a winter beard and let my blood thicken, it's been a long summer and I am officially declaring it over as of this morning.

Comments
From derhammer on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 14:49:44 from 192.156.110.34

LOL. I can relate. My son was born in Texas so he has no idea what cold is. It was around 50 this morning and he told me we needed to get him some gloves. I grew up in Omaha so I know what cold is all about! Still, since I have lost so much weight I do feel cool a bit more.

Are you feeling confident about Richmond?

From Smooth on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:26:03 from 63.228.197.20

You are so funny! I do believe we have the same temp today! It's the kind of winter I'd love to have! :) NICE mileage again and WAY to brave the COLD! :)

From SlowJoe on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 00:32:30 from 84.11.148.245

I won't laugh at you! Nice run, that is pretty fast for a low-heart rate run isn't it?

My humidity was actually 40% this morning in the desert. Houston being drier = sign of the apocalypse?

From Rye on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:29:12 from 75.167.173.96

You may not be laughing joe but I am. I have to admit though, you guys are animals that run in that heat down there. Great job today.

From flatlander on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 22:42:04 from 75.222.20.252

DH, this morning was 12 degrees colder and I was seen wearing gloves, so put me in the same bucket as your son.

Smooth, thanks, right now everybody has relatively good weather I guess.

Joe, what is normal humidity there? In the Arizona desert where I am from it isn't uncommon to be less than 10% Is Iraq that dry.

Rye, you're entitled, I know I'm a wimp.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:26:55 from 84.11.148.245

Yeah in the summer when the highs were in the 120s, it wasn't unusual to see 5 or 6%. Now it's probably between 20-50% most of the time.

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