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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
6.400.000.000.006.40

67F, 86%, SE 8 mph.  Warm weather again, but it isn't expected to last beyond Monday.  After the endorphin glow of yesterday morning's run wore off my flu symptoms came back hard like a Mack truck (sorry Mack).  Barely made it through the rest of the day and collapsed in bed at 8:45.  I didn't plan to run at all this morning unless I woke up without an alarm and feeling great.  I woke up once at 4:20 but the next thing I knew it was 6:00, 9 hours of nearly uninterrupted sleep.  I felt much better but the groups at the Y had long since departed, so I did a short run from my front door.  6.40 LHR miles in 1:02:11, average pace 9:43 per mile.  I stopped at the clubhouse near the end of the run and did leg weights, ran the rest of the way home, ate a large healthy breakfast, took a long hot shower and now I am ready for a nap.

Comments
From derhammer on Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:08:12 from 70.113.125.159

Hope you get to feeling better soon!!!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:24:01 from 75.109.104.60

Sounds like a nice opportunity to recoup from the sickness and lack of sleep. Turkey trot weather is looking good!

From JG on Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:02:29 from 71.59.27.33

Good job getting out there ... a shorter run was probably just what you needed ... sounds like you are at least feeling a little better!

From Stephen on Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 14:14:42 from 174.52.133.66

Way to keep at it. A day of rest should help tomorrow.

From Steam8 on Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 17:49:55 from 166.70.55.77

I was the same last week with my flu. I only felt good while I ran and siiiiiiiiick when I wasn't! Gotta love the endorphins!!

I hope you are feeling better today! Nice that you got in 6.4 with the flu!

From I Just Run on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 16:33:30 from 67.79.11.242

For some reason 6.40 still doesn't seem seem like a "short run" to me.

Way to be didicated through rough times!

From flatlander on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 22:04:14 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks everybody, feeling better today even though my run this morning pretty much stunk up the joint.

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