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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
44.810.006.000.0050.81
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.050.006.000.0012.05

39F, 98%, calm and clear.  Gorgeous morning out, but I had a run that I was a little afraid of.  Wanted to go 8 miles at 7:00.  Warmed up 4 miles at about a 9:10 pace then took off.  I managed to hold it for 6 miles at sub-7 and probably could have averaged 7 flat for 2 more with the cushion I had but could no longer hold the pace so I gave up.  Still a good run though.  Fast splits were 6:57 (164), 7:00 (171), 6:50 (175), 6:55 (177), 6:56 (179) and 7:00 (179), average 6:56, 12 seconds faster and 1 mile longer than last week.

Traveling all week, probably not much but a couple of hotel treadmill sessions for the remainder of the week.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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10 miles on hotel TM at 9:00 pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
28.760.000.000.0028.76

Mr. Crockett stayed with us last night and left early this morning to go to the start of the RR 100.  He is still hurting but will play it by ear.

A.M., went out for first run after returning home, hoping to get in 10 but had to give up at 4.58 miles when a heavy thunderstorm broke out, truncating the run early.  Overall about 9:00 pace.

P.M., went out to Huntsville ready to pace Crockett.  Met Wade there, the plan was to take turns.  We ran through the night with Crockett, sometimes all three together, sometimes one or the other of us.  I left at 5:00 a.m. to get to a 7:00 church meeting and Wade finished the race with him.  I'll let him give the report, but suffice it to say we got in lots of good conversation and got to see a level of perserverance that we probably won't encounter again in our running lives.  Total of 24.18 miles pacing.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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