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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

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

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

TM indoors, so no weather report. Didn't want to run in the cold and smog and get lost here in Beijing, so it was inside and I may stay there for the rest of the week. The facility at the hotel was pretty good, the TMs even had TVs on them, but couldn't get any channels, maybe mine was broken. So it was just like running outside in a way, nothing to entertain me except my own neurons and watching my form in the plate-glass window in front of me -- like I say, nothing to entertain me. Ran for 90 minutes at 1% incline and set the speed to bring me up to low heart rate, then decreased it slightly throughout the run to compensate for heart rate drift, which was pretty mild, it has been several days since I ran. So I think 10 minutes per mile is a pretty good estimate, which makes 9 miles worth of LHR effort. I was the first one in and the last one out. I guess runners have a different idea of what passes for a workout. There were also some ellipticals in there, but I stayed far enough away that I don't think I got infected.

Comments

From Stephen on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:57:52 from 204.182.3.235

I didn't know elliptical machines were that bad. I used one once when I had the foot problem and I didn't have any "ill" effects.

From Rye on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:49:48 from 71.209.42.202

Be safe on your trip. Don't wear out that treadmill.

From I Just Run on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 16:26:29 from 166.205.14.134

Ha...I could give a weather report from me gym since they rarely turn on the AC. Sometimes its hotter and more humid inside than out and there is no breeze... I consider that harsh weather training. LOL

From PRE on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 22:16:31 from 99.50.214.225

Hope you are enjoying yourself while out of the USA. Hope you get some outside runs in there. Loving that picture on your page of the Texas medal. Cannot get over how big that medal is.

From flatlander on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 00:09:04 from 60.247.105.219

Stephen, they don't cause foot problems, they cause boredom, even worse than a TM.

Thanks Rye.

IJR, it even had a little blower fan dealie on it, but not much horsepower.

PRE, thanks, do you think I'm living in the past too much by keeping it up there?

From derhammer on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:47:09 from 192.156.110.31

I have heard the smog is bad. Have a good trip.

From PRE on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 21:58:08 from 99.50.214.225

Flatlander,

No I do not think you are living in the past too much by leaving the picture up there. You both worked for those medals. It wasn't too long ago. And they look great.

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