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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

Sat, Feb 19, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.02

59F, 100% humidity, wind ENE 3 mph, heavy fog. Even though it was cooler than yesterday it was the type of running weather that tests your resolve. So wet out there the fog was generating a mist of rain. Was soaking wet within a couple of miles and unfortunately forgot to treate with Glide, creating a Burt-like episode on the front of my white shirt.

I ran from my front door down to the Y, about 6.5, then ran another 13.5 with Wade and the rest of the group. Pace down to the Y was about 9:30, then about 9:00 for the rest of the run. Wade ran his last mile at 7:30, leaving me in the dust. He has definitely got his mojo back, but says he won't run any more marathons. I'm working on him. He is running the half with me on March 12, but only plans to do 8:00 per mile. I think he is selling himself way short.

20.02 miles in 3:05:38, average pace 9:16 per mile. I ran around the parking lot a couple of times at the end of the run to get to 20. Someday I'll grow up.

Comments

From I Just Run on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:21:43 from 166.205.12.133

Hi Flatlander,

What's the Glide you mentioned? Lots of good moles for you this week... Hope the foot and knee is doing better!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:30:32 from 184.79.24.255

I would've done the same thing. It's a rare day that I don't stop the watch right at the mile.

We've been having similar temps lately, but not quite as humid - sorry about the Burt-like episode, but nice 20!

From flatlander on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:50:07 from 76.31.26.153

IJR, thanks, knee and foot are still bothering a little but not getting worse, and running in regular-lift shoes this week has been good for the foot. Body glide is available in any running store, and REI has it too. It looks like deodorant and you put it on the same way on any parts that might chafe. The stuff is expensive, about $10 per bar, but it works.

Joe, thanks, have a nice weekend.

From Dan on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 16:36:23 from 24.209.83.20

Man, I can not tell you how many times I have ran in circles to get that last hundredth of a mile!!!! Great miles!

From Smooth on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 23:51:20 from 67.2.69.27

NICE 20 miler! Yah, we're all a bit OCD to run in circles to top off the numbers! :)

Seems like it's a wet day for every FRBer today! :)

From I Just Run on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:10:45 from 166.205.12.200

I thought Glide might be some secrete formula that makes you run smoother and faster:)

From flatlander on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:30:37 from 198.207.244.102

Dan and Smooth, thanks, I think I now have a new tagline for my blog, "Running in Circles".

From Mack on Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:20:59 from 71.111.188.189

If you were a true,hard core OCD you would have also ran backwards .02 to keep things nice and tidy.

From flatlander on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:58:43 from 75.214.144.72

Hey Mack, how are you? I'll try to be a little more precise going forward. Check out Monday's run.

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