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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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59F, 94%, ENE 5 mph.  Been back in town since Thursday night, I have some nasty back pain from sitting on too many airplanes this week.  The stress from racing on Saturday and then sitting down for day after day caught up with my fragile lower vertebrae structure.  But decided to see what would happen if I ran this morning.  Turned out that running is no problem, at least for now, the stress is apparently in a different part of my back.  Ran 8 miles without monitoring heart rate or pace.  According to my phone I think I ran at about 9:20 to 9:30 range, though it felt faster than that.  Still have a few cold symptoms left, amazingly.  Traditional turkey trot coming up on Thursday with Wade, not sure what is going to happen at that one.  Definitely didn't feel this morning like I will ever be fast again.

Comments
From Rye on Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 09:55:05 from 75.167.176.146

Recovery is tough enough .....add travel and it has to be the pits! You'll be just fine.

From I Just Run on Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 08:09:56 from 67.79.11.242

I think they designed those airplane seats to put pressure at the exact wrong location on your lower back! It kills me to ride in a plane for very long.

I'm running a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning too (kind of a last minute decision). Hope you feel good enough to enjoy it...I suggest you run for fun with NO goal! :-)

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