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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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Fri, May 27, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.95	0.00	3.10	0.00	10.05

64F, 77% and calm at start, 73F, 83%, E 5 mph to finish, must have been a brief cold front come through last night, it was definitely warming up quickly during the run. It felt hot out there, but the temperature didn't lie, I ran better than yesterday, even though yesterday was off of a day of rest. Did 4.75 LHR miles at about 9:44 per mile, transitioned for a quarter into 5 x 1K (rest intervals finishing off each mile, very convenient). Mile-equivalent pacing for each 1000 was: 7:16 (157), 7:10 (161), 7:03 (165), 7:03 (169) and 7:06 (171). It was hard but it felt good.

Wade and I are going to run a 5K in the morning that I found out in The Woodlands, a large planned community to the north of Houston up I-45. I wasn't dying to do another short race right now, but I have done one a couple of weeks ahead of most of my last few marathons and it seems to work pretty well. The real reason, though, was the entry fee: US$1.00 and no tax. I am way too cheap to pass that one up. Best of all, no t-shirts and no pre-race speeches. Just line up and run like you know what.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:43:09 from 184.79.24.255

That's my kind of race, good luck!

From I Just Run on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:44:58 from 67.79.11.242

Can't wait to hear what the prizes are for the winners! Maybe a cup of coffee at 7-11?

From Burt on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:57:05 from 72.223.90.79

No, I don't know what. What?

From I Just Run on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:57:58 from 67.79.11.242

Like "BURT" of course...!

From Burt on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:01:21 from 72.223.90.79

I should have known.

From Stephen on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:27:45 from 204.182.3.235

Flatlander doesn't work for you any more. You need a speedier name. I can think of one, but you probably wouldn't like it.

From I Just Run on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:30:07 from 67.79.11.242

How about Speedlander ... ?

From derhammer on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:40:35 from 70.113.125.159

Good luck on the 5k - hopefully they can afford course markers.

From Rye on Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:22:36 from 174.27.71.83

Running at its simpliest form! No hype, just do it. Hey, that's a cool slogan, has anybody thought of that one?

From Steam8 on Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:07:04 from 166.70.55.77

Good luck on your 5K today! The Woodlands are so beautiful! I lived in Houston for a year. We lived right by the Astrodome! It was an interesting year!

I loved your personal info. Congrats on Boston!

From flatlander on Sat, May 28, 2011 at 13:35:53 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks for the comments guys.

Stephen, come on, spit it out.

DH, no course markers, one water cooler at the end and that was it.

Rye, you are the first, you could be a race director I think.

Steam8, thanks for checking in! My son lives in the Astrodome area, a little sketchy in places down there. Hope you had a good time here (and safe).

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