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Location:

Austin,TX,USA

Member Since:

Jan 08, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

4:50 mile  1987

18:01 5k 5:48/mile  2002

36:36 10k  5:53/mile  1988

1:24:37 Half Marathon 6:25/mile  2003

3:42:00 Marathon 8:25/mile  1998

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

18 Minute 5k

Personal:

Location:  Austin TX

Born 1968 in Columbia, MO.

Engaged to Lori Juergens.  We have a black lab named Abbie who was my trail running partner for years, but she's in her golden years now, and a Belgian Sheepdog named Maggie, who is a nut.

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Total Distance
3.56

Today I ran at the Sandy Creek Park.  I was looking for trail there, but only found small trails that went from campsites down to the lake.  I ended up following a dried up cove of the lake up a dry creek bed for a mile or so until it came out on Lime Creek road, which I followed back to the park.  On the way home I saw what looked like a large, close meteor come down.  It was very bright and burning and trailing black smoke.  It broke apart on the way down and each of the pieces was burning as they fell.  I don't know how close it was or if it struck the ground.  It was probably much further away than it looked but it was the best meteor I've ever seen.

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
Comments
From mikemac on Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 16:59:53

Very cool.Every time that I see a shooting star, someting different always happens to me.Its not always good either.Maybe it will be for you!

From Bob Anderton on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 23:06:41

As Paul Harvey would say, "Now, for the rest of the story". This link http://www.physorg.com/news154028868.html is about the meteor I saw on Sunday. It describes it as a pick-up sized chunk with the consistency of concrete coming down. I live in Williamson County Texas, the county mentioned in this article.

From flatlander on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:24:05

Hi Bob,

I moved from Austin to Salt Lake about 3 years ago, but I will always love Austin since it is where I got hooked on running around Town Lake. I saw the story about the meteor on the national news and I knew it had to be in Austin because there were quite a few runners in the video. Anyway, it's great that you were able to see it in person.

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