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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

Thu, Mar 17, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
9.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	9.00

Same exact thing as yesterday, minus the HR monitor. My Garmin is low on batteries, I think I left it on after yesterday and I am a bit far from home to put it on the charger cradle. I thought I could make it through four days on one charge but I guess not if I am going to do dumb things like that. Everybody out here is panicking about radiation from Japan. Certainly something to keep an eye on, but can't see that it presents any threat to China at this point. Might be a little bit of politics involved. Japan is a really good country, I was a missionary there 35 years ago. I hope they make it through this OK.

Comments

From Smooth on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 13:47:22 from 67.2.103.237

You don't need Garmin when you run indoor on the TM, do you?

The Chinese pulled all their people out of Sendai and the surrounding area! The church moved all their missionaries to the other areas in Japan as well. It is such a sad thing, all those lives lost!!!

The Mortensens are back from their mission. If I remember right, your son married their grand-daughter?

Have a safe enjoyable trip in Beijing!

NICE runs, btw!

From Kelli on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 20:23:09 from 71.219.97.85

I hope they make it through it ok, too. SCARY!

Sorry about the Garmin, that is a bummer.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 21:41:54 from 70.254.49.206

Nice work getting in those runs on your trip. I'm not too surprised China is freaking out, we have people all the way over here (on the west coast) buying iodide pills for crying out loud!

From I Just Run on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 00:10:21 from 166.205.9.53

I have an idea...just blog me when you start and when you stop your run. I'll use my Garmin to track your time... :-)

From Rye on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:46:04 from 174.27.118.104

I have just calculated your age.... I had a friend that served in Japan about 20 years ago. He stands 6'5" inches tall and stood out like a sore thumb. Keep up the great work and be safe.

From Kelli on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:16:26 from 71.219.97.85

I was at the grocery store right after this happened and heard a lady freaking out in the pharmacy over iodine pills. I did not know why, but then I saw it on the Today Show (they were saying NOT too freak out). WOW, people are coo-koo sometimes.

From flatlander on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:16:31 from 76.31.26.153

Smooth, I only wanted it for the HR readout, but decided I could go by the data I got from the first day, just set it at the same speed. Funny thing, I have never met the Mortensons, even though I have stayed at their house! I'll have to stop by when I come up for UVM in June.

Thanks Kelli, I adapted. Never really wanted to run outside anyway in all the smog, which got pretty bad toward the end of the week.

Joe, I thought about your comment on the plane today. A woman got on in San Francisco with a baby and sat by me. I asked her if she was leaving or returning. Said she lives in SF but was returning to her parents' home in Houston to keep her baby away from the fallout. Couldn't resist telling her I had just flown over the reactor. She laughed nervously and kept herself between me and the baby the rest of the way.

IJR, still thinking about that one. Isn't that kind of like counting sheep's legs and dividing by 4?

Rye, I know the sticking out feeling. The little kids used to follow us around all the time after school let out, shouting and laughing at us. Mostly we were good natured about it, but if it got too bad we would call the youngest one over and ask him in a whisper if we could eat his littlest finger, just for a quick taste. It always worked.

Kelli, they should just try throwing salt back over their shoulder. I am pretty sure there is enough iodine in salt so that would work just as well.

From Kelli on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:09:03 from 71.219.97.85

Smooth, you KNOW everyone!!!!!

AND, I, for some reason, did not know you were coming to run UVM. I will be there (cheering and doing my usual running people in). YEAH!

I have LOTS of salt, so we are in good shape. Maybe I should go make a ring around my house with it. Wait, that keeps out ghosts or monsters or something.

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