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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
4.990.000.000.004.99

4.99 miles in 1:05, 13:01/mile, 59F, 127 bpm.  Not my best run ever, but back in the zone.  After yesterday's debacle, I started out extremely slow, about a 16-17 minute pace for the first half mile, never let my heart rate get away from me.  First mile was 14:02 and everything after that was in the high 12s.  In the past I could always get my heart rate back down once it crept beyond the target zone, but after yesterday I was no longer confident of that.  Deep into my run I let it get away a couple of times, but by then I could always bring it back down by slowing my cadence slightly.  Anyway, back on track.

Comments
From Huans32 on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:45:03 from 138.64.2.76

Good looking run man.

From flatlander on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:59:30 from 70.216.137.153

Thanks, just saw your post, do you do the weight work for your running or is it unrelated to that?

From Huans32 on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:02:02 from 138.64.2.76

Yesterday wasn't really for running. That was just hanging with one of my friends. He is trying to get back into shape. But normally I would do more core work for running.

From Burt on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 16:33:22 from 68.76.197.194

Glad you had a better run today.

Okay, I want you to do something. Click on 'Find Blogs'. Then type in 'flatlander' in the 'Search blog names/titles'. You're going to see that you're not the only one that calls themself flatlander on this blog.

But maybe you already knew that.

From flatlander on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 18:08:30 from 198.207.244.102

Burt, I figured that out after I had already registered -- I thought the computer wouldn't let me register with somebody else's name. She's probably mad at me, but I figured because of the male/female thing there would be no confusion, plus I'm pretty much bald. If I get voted off the blog I'll consider changing it. Maybe I should change it before that happens, but that would mean I have to figure out how to do that, which with my computer skills could take longer than qualifying for Boston.

From Burt on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 18:25:29 from 68.76.197.194

I don't think it's a big deal other than it might confuse someone who comes looking for you. It happens a lot, and my guess is as the blog grows, it will happen even more. If you want to change it, I can talk you through it, but my advice is just leave it.

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