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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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68F, 93%, SSW 11 mph.  Weather is very warm but will be cold by this weekend.

Ran 3 miles at an easy pace, no watch.  Had one of those cold/flu episodes that seems to put my conditioning back by 3 months.  I'm slow coming out of these and it seems to take forever to shake it off.  Have a 12K race scheduled this weekend, then a half in two weeks on January 1.  Don't really know what will happen.

Comments
From Burt on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:30:21 from 97.117.253.132

Shake it off? Sounds like you've been getting down to a sick beat.

From I Just Run on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 14:36:08 from 67.79.11.242

Tell me about the Woodlands Marathon on Feb. 28th? I'm considering...

From flatlander on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 14:55:45 from 198.207.244.102

Burt, if only I had a booty.

IJR, it is an excellent medium-sized race. The course used to be two loops but it is now one big loop. The start-finish area is in a cool retail village in the Woodlands and they always have great food and hanging out afterward. Very, very flat, almost perfectly flat. Has been well-run in the past, and plenty of parking. I think this year it was a pretty warm day, but generally it is cool enough to run well.

I've never run the full (Allie has run it twice and is suggesting she might be out here this year also.), but have run the half at least once. Ten for Texas is run on the same course, so I end up out there a lot. I would highly recommend it, but register quickly because it usually fills up.

From MarkS on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 15:12:59 from 118.15.77.228

Eats lots of garlic and onions, and drink hot water with ginger and honey in it.

From flatlander on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 15:40:35 from 198.207.244.102

That looks just awful enough to work.

From Rye on Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 18:24:17 from 174.27.84.51

Hope you can shake it.........off

From SlowJoe on Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 20:30:18 from 104.51.208.13

Hopefully you're feeling better Flat. Takes me a long time to bounce back from that crud too.

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