For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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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Sat, Jun 23, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
7.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.00

71F, 93%, N 1 mph, clear at sunrise. Ran 7.00 miles in 1:02:58, 9:00 per mile, right on target, but no heart rate monitor today. I ran the first two days of this week then didn't feel like running any more. At the chiro yesterday he dug deep into my piroformis, got my attention real good. But I felt better. Ate steak last night so wasn't feeling the greatest this morning, but went out anyway. I was only going to run 1 mile but I kept going since things didn't seem to be getting worse (or better for that matter). Eventually decided to go a whole 7 and managed it so I finished right at my doorstep. I am becoming a little too familiar with the routes in my neighborhood. When I got back I decided to keep moving, so I took my son's dog out for a walk. (She is a border collie and has lots of energy. I might teach her to run, but I don't think my wife wants her to become our dog. Kind of a complicated parent-child-canine drama going on here.) Then iced my back and I will do stretching at some point today.

Comments

From SonofaFlatlander on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:28:29 from 139.52.181.11

Nice work.

From derhammer on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:48:12 from 70.113.125.159

Great job to keep going Flat. I hope you are back up to full strength soon.

From Smooth on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 19:29:48 from 174.27.192.130

Glad you kept going. So sorry about the back issue. Hope it heals up quickly and you're able to run a Fall marathon.

From I Just Run on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:19:03 from 67.79.11.242

It's good to see you're making some progress in your running!

I love steak but also feel misrable the day after I eat it.

You should throw a couple of cats and a few horses in the parent-child-pet mix and see how complicated things get :-)

From Dan on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 20:55:16 from 24.209.83.20

Good run and I certainly know what you mean on knowing the route so well you don't need a Garmin to tell you how far you went. Steak reacts well with me.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 20:30:07 from 69.131.141.92

I feel bad if I DON'T eat enough steak.

Good to see some miles rolling in. Hope you can get past this, seems like there is some progress?

From flatlander on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 07:12:09 from 76.31.26.153

Clint, thanks, good luck today.

DH, I think I just may be, things are looking pretty good this morning.

Smooth, thanks, I am already plotting it out. Thinking about TOU, although I crash and burn every time I try to run at altitude.

IJR, lol, I guess we are the minor leagues compared to what you have going on at your house.

Dan, you must be a carnivore? For what it's worth, I only eat vegetarians.

Joe, that makes two carnivores in a row. Yeah, I think I'll be back soon, or as much as you can be in this heat. It's already over 100, second summer in a row we have had these kinds of temperatures.

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