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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
4.030.008.000.0012.03

59F, 63% humidity, wind NNE 6 mph.  First look at my Blackberry this morning showed 70F.  After a moment of panic I realized that was last night's readout, and was much relieved when I got the true temperature, which is only a little bit warmer than ideal.  The intent today was to do 8 at 7:15, which is goal half marathon pace for my race in 2-1/2 weeks.  I got it but it was hard.  Warmed up for 2 miles, 9:48 and 8:22 and accelerated into the fast ones:  7:12 (161), 7:04 (170), 7:02 (173), 7:08 (175), 7:14 (176), 7:23 (176) (that one woke me up), 7:12 (178) and 7:02 (181), average pace about 7:10, good result but I could not have run 13 at this pace today.  2 cooldown.  12.02 total in 1:36:26, 8:01 average pace.  In my mental fog at mile 9 I started wondering how many dogs have barked at me in my running life.  I decided at least one per mile, I must be on the wall of honor down at the K9-VFW.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:28:20 from 131.59.200.80

Really impressive, such a long tempo! If you had our temps today, the HR would've been lower. With a little race-day boost you could definitely pull off the 1:35.

From I Just Run on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:55:32 from 67.79.11.242

It was 53 when I ran this morning...I think that's about perfect for me, except I needed to wear gloves. That's cool how you can pace yourself so evenly over the miles, where I run is too hilly. I need to get to a flat area to run sometime. They say the Half I'm running in 1-1/2 weeks is hilly just like the Ausin Half I just ran. Someday I'll run a really flat Half and see how it compares. Keep up the good work, I think you're going to do great at the race. Is it going to be a flat run?

From Burt on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 17:37:43 from 206.19.214.144

Man, you're fast now!

From flatlander on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:46:08 from 198.207.244.102

Joe, that's what I'm counting on, I don't think I will be all the way there otherwise by March 12.

IJR, funny how we complain about having no hills around here. Come run Beaumont with us on March 12, I think it is pretty flat?

Burt, for a little while on some days perhaps, then I run out of gas.

From I Just Run on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:54:07 from 67.79.11.242

I'd love to come and run Beaumont on March 12 but I think it might be a little too much after running Austin on Feb 20 and San Marcos on March 6th...but I will come down your way sometime and run! I will need to pick up my pace so I can run with you..!

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