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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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38F, 99%, NNE 1 mph, clear and cold.  Wore a beanie today, only two weeks after a 70F+ sweat-fest.  Typical late-season weather patterns for Houston, but at least we don't have a hurricane.  I'm going to run at a fairly hard level this week, but not crazy.  It is only 2 weeks out, but I got very little done last week and I have been wanting to test a theory anyway -- go easy a ways out from the race date, then accelerate into the race, albeit taking a few easy days right before it.  The reason is that seems to be how I perform best during any given training cycle.  Maybe it is a bunch of bunk, but if I'm wrong I have two more marathons in the next 6 months to screw it up by some other method.

My legs felt good this morning despite having difficulties running 21+ on Saturday, they had a little bit of spring in them.  Splits were 9:02, 8:31, 8:39, 8:24, 8:38, 8:18 then the GMP miles at 7:25, 7:23, 7:25 and 7:22.  Kind of hard but I hit the splits pretty readily, it was easier than running 7:45s last week.

I'm going to go ahead and do the speed workout with the group tomorrow, then do today's run again on Wednesday.

Comments
From I Just Run on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:04:22 from 67.79.11.242

Good running. I'm looking forward to your race in a couple of weeks.

From Smooth on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 21:49:44 from 65.130.14.36

That is an impressive 10 miler just two days after a 21+ miler!!! Looks like you're peaking at the right time! Can't wait to see you crush your goal next week! :)

From Rye on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:53:46 from 75.174.49.224

Things are coming together for you Flat.....your body is quite the machine....mileage junkie! Still scratching my head with the beanie... You have been away from the west.....I'm still running shirtless.

From derhammer on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 15:45:17 from 64.245.52.2

Nice run Flat. I am with IRJ, looking forward to your race.

From flatlander on Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 06:20:08 from 76.31.26.153

IJR, thanks, but it won't be anything like the ones you are about to rip off.

Smooth, thanks for the positive vibes! I'm feeling so much better this week than last, starting to feel slightly optimistic myself.

Rye, my beanie says UT Longhorns on it, so I think it's OK. If I ran shirtless it would cause havoc, and not because I look good.

Thanks David.

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