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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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Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.08	5.11	0.00	0.00	15.19

48F, 97%, ESE 2 mph and overcast, extraordinary running weather today. I ate a big plate of fried catfish last night and woke up with the turkey trots. One more entree goes on the pre-race verboten list. I ran a little over 9 miles at 10.14 per mile, heart rate was all over the place but I think it was mostly a combination of a bad gut and inaccurate HRM read-out in the colder air. Finally got things stabilized in time to leave for the race.

We loaded up and drove to The Woodlands for the GE Run Through the Woods annual run. I did this run last year but wasn't really interested in racing right now, trying to get in lots of base miles for the next month or two. I took my daughter Jennifer and her husband Scott, and my son Clint. I ran with Clint and had a good time. Warmed up for almost a mile to get the stiffness out and got loose enough to keep up with Clint. We ran the race (5.11 miles) at an average pace of 7:34, but I'll let him report on the details. Altogether 15.19 miles today.

Hung with Wade awhile, ate the pancake breakfast, drove home and spent the rest of the day lounging around. Good day.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 23:03:09 from 98.201.152.210

Solid day of running, solid day of eating.

Still interested in 20 or so on Saturday? I'll shoot you an email.

From PRE on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 00:04:42 from 99.50.213.11

Hey Flatlander, Happy Thanksgiving. Nice miles. My brother lives in the Woodlands? Mind if I ask you a few questions: That TX Marathon you did when you earned the huge medal...what was the name of that marathon, what month is it run and how far is that Marathon from the Woodlands?

Be well.

From Smooth on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:22:09 from 174.27.205.151

WOW!!! AWESOME week of running! I don't think I know of anyone who run as much daily miles as you, ok may be Crockett, but seriously your running is phenomenal!

From I Just Run on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:05:48 from 166.147.95.38

He Flat & Joe,

I'll run about 20 with you but ill have to do it up her in Joplin :-) Hope the weather is good down there, its great running weather up here so far.

From flatlander on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:00:02 from 76.31.26.153

Joe, saw your e-mail. I am definitely on, I will get back to you with details but I think we should run in Memorial Park tomorrow, my turn to travel.

PRE, it is called the Texas Marathon, but it is over in Kingwood, on the northeast side. Probably about 30 minutes from The Woodlands. Steve puts it on every year on New Years Day, but you will have to wait until 2013, because this year's race has been full since June. Don't wait any later than that to sign up, it seems to get more popular every year.

Smooth, thanks. As I tell everybody, don't be impressed, they are slow miles. Whenever I run hard my mileage drops quickly, like this morning.

IJR, do what you have to do up there, we will be thinking about you. Hope you get good running weather, not too hot or too cold.

From JG on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:32:19 from 71.57.246.108

Flat, awesome 5 miles ... & another 10! Great job & enjoy your 20 miler with Joe!!

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