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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sat, Jun 15, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

80F, 88%, S 5 mph at the start. Out the door at 4:33 for 20 easy ones, front door down to the Y and back. It all went well until the sun came up about 7:30 for the last 5, then things deteriorated quickly, turned out to be one of the hardest 20-milers I have done. Pretty much illucid by the last 2 miles. 10:16 per mile overall, RHR 55, 148/164. I reached the magic number close to the entrance to my neighborhood, about 0.8 miles from the house. But I stopped anyway because I wasn't sure what would happen if I kept running. Pretty beat up, I walked by a kids' water park, the kind with fountains coming out of the ground. There were some park benches there and I figured there was a water fountain with water a little cooler than the water in my bottle. No such luck. There was an electrical switch on a tree nearby, but I couldn't see any valves to turn on. Then through my delerium I realized that the switch might be to the pumps, not the lights in the trees. I went and looked under the cover and sure enough, it had a timer. So I turned it on and played in the water, including an overhead bucket that filled up and then drenched me. Once was enough for that one. After a while I felt someone watching and looked across the street to find a vigilant neighborhood guy in his bathrobe with arms crossed. I waved but he was not amused. I'm sure a complaint will be filed and somebody will put a lock on the timer. Good thing there weren't any kids there, I would have had to elbow them out of the way.

Comments

From Claudio on Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 04:48:09 from 173.75.181.31

LOL instant classic blog entry Flatlander ! great to see you back

From I Just Run on Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 07:30:37 from 67.79.11.242

I don't think 20 miles can ever be "easy"! Your nuts!

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