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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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No running today.  Heading to NYC on vacation with the family in the morning, trying to decide whether to run while I am there.  I probably will, just because of Central Park, but not very much.  I think I will follow the traditional advice and take a week off for the most part.  In the past I have gotten away with starting back at it pretty quickly,.  I came out of this marathon in good shape but very sore and I am guessing things could go south in a hurry if I start back too quickly.  Somebody's blog today says the UVM course has 1000' of elevation gain in it.  The course profile doesn't hint at that, but it explains a lot about how things went on Saturday -- I felt OK about my time before I knew that, and I am even more OK with it now.  The course is apparently tougher than Ogden, which absolutely killed me a year ago.  I almost registered for ING Hartford today.  It is the Saturday after St. George (which I missed), but still timed well to allow Boston registration before it fills up, assuming I qualify.  Plus it is my kind of race, flat and sea level.  Doesn't look like it is filling up just yet so I will wait a little bit but I think that is going to be my fall race.

Comments
From KP on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:21:54 from 65.208.22.26

have a wonderful vacation! i love NYC. last time i was there, i wasn't a "runner" yet. i definitely want to go back just so i can log a few miles in central park. it is my favorite part of the city {other than all the cheap purses in chinatown ;)}

From SlowJoe on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:29:44 from 131.59.200.80

Flat and sea level sounds pretty good after mountainous and elevated doesn't it? Have fun on your vacation, hope it's restful.

From Mack on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 13:44:52 from 71.111.186.66

Have fun in NYC. Running in central park would be cool!!

From Rye on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:40:40 from 174.27.0.5

Enjoy the vacation. A few days off will do you well. You will come back with a strong healed body ready for additional training.

From flatlander on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:52:18 from 75.236.167.244

KP, you should definitely run the park. It is probably the best running venue I have found so far. We went to Chinatown last night for a meal, bought t-shirts ($2 apiece) but no purses.

Thanks Joe, I ran this morning, couldn't sit it out all week long I guess.

Mack and Rye, I took a few days off but went back out this morning and had a great run. Thanks for checking in.

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