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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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59F, 100% and calm.  Met Wade and the group at the Y at 5:15.  They were doing 15 but Wade and I only wanted 10.  8:40 average for the run, felt very good.  So far so good on the taper.  I missed yesterday after waking up with a huge sore throat.  It has been bugging me all week and flared up badly yesterday -- couldn't get in to see a doctor because since I never go I am in the new patient category and can't just slip into an open slot.  Chiros forever, I would never hear that from them (wait, I have 5 doctors in the family, I may need to revise that).  It wasn't much better this morning, but if I missed today then by Monday it would have been the fourth day since I ran, which doesn't work for a taper, nor for any other running program that I am aware of.  I got up this morning at 1:30 and took aspirin but it didn't help, just a rough night, was almost a relief to get up at 4:30.  I felt much better after running, but I will be wasted tonight.  The warmer temperatures felt good, prevented me getting the chills. 

Spent too much of the morning on letsrun.com reading indignant comments about the NYC Marathon cancellation.  Probably the right decision, but admittedly done in the worst way possible.  Most runners could have cut their losses by more than half if they had cancelled two days earlier.  Not sure how they were going to pull it off anyway.

Comments
From SlowJoe on Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 16:55:03 from 69.131.141.92

Sorry about the sore throat. Hopefully plenty of time to get over it. The rest of the taper should help.

What a fiasco with NYC huh? Small potatoes compared to the loss of life and devastation but terribly mis-managed by the NYRR folks.

From Claudio on Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:28:14 from 216.99.185.50

Flatlander, good job on the taper and take good care. Have a great run in Richmond. looks like many runners displaced from NYC will be there.

From I Just Run on Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 13:25:47 from 67.79.11.242

I think it's somtimes better to just go out and sweat out the sickness. You might as well be misrable while doing something that you enjoy...right?

From flatlander on Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 13:12:29 from 198.207.244.102

Joe, thanks, sore throat seems to be history at this point. Felt it a little bit on Tuesday, nothing today.

Claudio, LOL, when I saw your comment I remembered I hadn't gotten a hotel, and sure enough they were all gone in downtown Richmond. My brother lives there so no big deal, but I always put off the hotel thing too long.

Preston, right, I think?

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