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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, Nov 26, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.06

65F, 97%, SE 3 mph. That was the reading at 4 a.m. By the time we started running it was warmer than that, at least according to the thermometer on my car. This is the only warm day in several weeks, looking back or forward, so of course I invited slowjoe to run slow with me. He always comes in town when it gets really hot and muggy. I think he misses Iraq.

We met up a Memorial Park, which is inside the main loop here in Houston. A well-lit jogging path with a 3-mile main loop. I stopped at a gas station for one last bathroom break and Joe was there getting some Gatorade, so we drove into the park together and started. I had hopes of doing this one sub-8s, but with the weather and the mileage on my legs this weeks I didn't try. Joe was a good sport and went with whatever speed I picked. I tried to hold mid-8:20s for most of the run, but slipped occasionally into the 8:30s and one or two 8:40s.

Once it got light we left the park and ran to downtown and back. There were some pretty muddy trails along Buffalo Bayou, including a lot of up and down, that forced me to pick up my feet and twist and turn a lot more. The extra effort seemed to wake up my legs and by the end of the run I was in the low 8s. By my watch, 20.06 miles in 2:48:56, 8:25 per mile, average heart rate 161, trending toward 170 at the end. Joe's watch measured it just a little shorter. It was great to get together again and get caught up.

Comments

From Burt on Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 09:14:57 from 72.223.93.131

No soggy money tales this time?

From SonofaFlatlander on Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:56:42 from 99.97.157.54

Nice mileage. I would still like to run in Memorial one of these days, but no way was I gonna make it Saturday. Didn't stir until 9:45am. I blame Black Friday for throwing off my schedule.

From JG on Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 21:28:43 from 71.57.246.108

Glad to hear you & Joe could hook up, awesome run ... certainly not easy conditions for a 20 miler! Nice to have company on those though!!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 23:37:45 from 74.195.74.62

Good running with you - next time we'll know which urine-soaked underpasses to avoid.

From Burt on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:54:03 from 174.254.20.185

Now that's what I'm talking about.

From I Just Run on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:29:54 from 67.79.11.242

Good run guys!!!

Hey Joe, would you come to San Marcos to run my long run with me next Saturday? :-)

From Dave S on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 23:14:46 from 4.228.192.245

Nice run and nice job on the week at almost 100 miles!

From Smooth on Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:21:20 from 174.27.205.151

AWESOME 20 miler to top off a GREAT mileage week!!! NICE pace on a warm day too!

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