For Whom the Dogs Bark

May 02, 2024

15% off for Fast Running Blog members at St. George Running Center!

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.

Click to donate

to Ukraine's Armed Forces

Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Tue, Feb 01, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.40	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.40

66F, 94% humidity, wind S 13-20 mph. Almost summertime temperatures. Ran 4.44 miles at low heart rate (regular shoes), then came back in to do the seminary run.

After dropping my daughter off, the car thermometer read-out headed south. It went from 66 to 41 in about 10 minutes, first time I have seen anything like that. By the time I got back in my neighborhood the wind was rocking my vehicle and there was lightning and thunder, so I wimped out and went to the clubhouse, waited around for the only treadmill that was working, settled for 1 mile on the elliptical. Finally the treadmill opened up and I got two more miles on it at low heart rate, then my phone rang and my daughter's ride home had fallen through. Back to pick her up.

By this time the weather had calmed down, 42F, 100% humidity, wind NW 16-30, so I put on beanie and gloves, went back out and ran 3 more in the 8:30 to 9:00 range, frankly it felt better than the slow miles earlier. Total miles on my Garmin were 7.40 in 1:13, 9:54 pace. Adding 3 for the clubhouse miles, so a total of 10.40. Then back to the house to take my daughter to the bus stop, too cold to have the little darling wait in the wind. Let's see, I was out there in shorts, something wrong here. At that point I called it a day.

My legs and feet hurt all day yesterday, got worse as the day wore on, I figured I had an injury. The good news this morning is that all seems well. We are bracing for some serious winter weather here in the next few days. I know, I know, everybody else already has it.

Comments

From I Just Run on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:04:21 from 67.79.11.242

Hi Flatlander,

Looks like you had an eventful day already. You must be up about 2:00 am to get all of this done. I was planning on running on the road this morning but at 2:30 the norther blew in and woke me up, I couldn't really get back to sleep so at 5:00 I got up and went to the gym. Hope your day smoothes out a little!

From derhammer on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:23:19 from 192.156.110.32

That is about the craziest run I think I have read about. :-) At least you got your miles in! Yes, the next few days look fun indeed.

From Stephen on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:25:51 from 204.182.3.235

It was 20 degrees here this morning. My toes froze together and my fingers went numb under my gloves as I rode my bike. No running for me until my foot is all better. It's really too cold for bike riding too.

From SlowJoe on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 14:25:23 from 184.79.24.255

Yikes, good luck running the next few days, hope it is at least slightly more reasonable in Houston and doesn't get too ugly.

From Burt on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 23:22:05 from 206.213.44.111

Mother Nature got mad at you.

From flatlander on Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:23:30 from 76.31.26.153

IJR, thanks, it stayed crazy all day, didn't get to bed until after midnight, it was a miracle I ran this morning.

David, after a couple of "dry runs" in this weather, we get to do it all over again in the snow/sleet, if you believe the weatherman.

Stephen, I can't imagine being out on a bike in this weather. The typical bikers in my neighborhood were nowhere to be seen this morning.

SJ, I'm sure it's not as ugly as it is up there. You have snow I presume?

Burt, she's always mad at me. You would think we were married.

Add Your Comment.

Keep it family-safe. No vulgar or profane language. To discourage anonymous comments of cowardly nature, your IP address will be logged and posted next to your comment.
Do not respond to another person's comment out of context. If he made the original comment on another page/blog entry, go to that entry and respond there.
If all you want to do is contact the blogger and your comment is not connected with this entry and has no relevance to others, send a private message instead.

Debt Reduction Calculator

Featured Announcements

Most Recent Entries:

New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):

Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):