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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

Sat, Oct 23, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
23.46	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.46

70F, 93% humidity wind ESE 3 mph to start, 77F, 64% humidity, wind SSE 11-17 mph at end, almost mid-summer running conditions. Ran 23.46 miles in 3:54:26, average pace 10:00, regular shoes. Pretty much maintained the same pace throughout, but I was fighting my head the whole time. My left foot hurt all day yesterday from something I did to it on yesterday's run. Then my hip started hurting early in the run today. Plus I wasn't running fast just slogging it out, it was hot, I had things to do, I had run hard all week, so a combination of things. I almost came in early several times but ended up making my goal. I need to run more of these longer runs but they get to me mentally. I really don't like the way I feel after mile 18 or so, just not fun, no wonder marathons are so difficult to finish. I got a late start this morning due to some family celebrations last night, but early enought to still run the first couple of hours in the dark. When the sun came up it was nice for a while then drained my strength for the last 45 minutes or so. I was dragging at the end, but my slowest split was 10:34 (other than the first warmup mile). Fastest was 9:36. Right about mile 23 I tripped and went down, first time that has happened in a while, but my feet were dragging and my toe caught on the perfectly flat pavement. I was all by myself, pretty messy but unharmed except for a sprained left pinky. Funny thing, I felt better when I got up and started running again, like it knocked the cobwebs out. Pretty embarrasssing, though. I met a friend at mile 19.5 and we ran together for about a mile and a half. That was a big help.

Comments

From Stephen on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 16:29:40 from 204.182.3.235

Do you realize you are 4th on the mileage board for this week?

From SlowJoe on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 17:18:58 from 214.13.130.104

It figures, temps were better for you all week until it's time to run 23 miles! Really nice run - wow almost 80 for the week.

From flatlander on Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:11:02 from 75.223.159.85

Thanks guys. Might have overdone it a bit this week, my ankle hasn't felt too good over the weekend.

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