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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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Race: UNCF Walk (3.19 Miles) 00:22:31, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.750.003.190.003.94

74F, 92% (DP 71), NNE 13 mph.  A system moved through last night and cooled things off somewhat for this race.  A girl/boy combination with same last name (either siblings or a married couple) took first and second, I got third in 22:38, splits were 6:59, 7:09, 7:09 and 7:11, HR maxed out at 182.  The girl beat me by nearly two minutes, but she ran close to my PR from 3 years ago.  The guy beat me by about 25 seconds.  Thinking the heat was to blame, I checked out my old race reports and those PR-type races were not necessarily cooler.  One was run at 80F, the other at 66F with a bad groin.  So I'm definitely slower now.  Nothing you can do.

Trying to decide whether to put in a lot of speed work for a big 10-miler in October or go back to LLHR training for a long-haul training cycle.  Problem with LLHR training is making the time, it takes almost 2 hours to do a run and that is hard to get in every day.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:16:23 from 107.77.80.116

Congrats on the podium finish - pretty solid stuff given the limited speed work. I have to be in good 5k-shape to run a good one, rather than good general shape, if that makes sense...

From Tom K on Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 16:10:02 from 71.203.20.181

Nice work, Flat! Is it ever a bad time to do speed work? It kind of goes with Joe's "general fitness" comment. And since you are scraping together time to do the 2 hour runs anyhow, things might be pointing in that direction.

I'm going to have to go back and read the "66F with a bad groin" race report. That is some interesting weather!

From Derunzo on Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 18:01:17 from 24.218.179.128

Solid race man. Nice work!

From I Just Run on Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:59:38 from 67.79.11.242

I vote for speed work! :-)

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