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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, Sep 15, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

71F, 100% N 5-15 mph, temperature may have dropped a couple of degrees during the run. I have been building to this run all week, got so excited I woke up at 2:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. But going slow yesterday really helped, I had glycogen in my legs this morning. Finally got up at 3:45 and got to the Y at 4:15, ran 7 on my own at an 8:00 pace. I mapped the distance out ahead of time, ran it totally by feel, not knowing if I was fast or slow. Right as I hit the 7-mile mark, the clock on my phone turned to 56 minutes, so I paced it exactly.

By this time the group was there, scheduled for 13. I asked if anybody was willing to pace me at 8:00 for the whole 13. They looked at me like I was nuts, but a couple of guys finally said they would do it, so we took off. First mile was 7:52 and after that we were all over the map, 7:40 all the way up to 8:16. Eric, the coach and Thanh, a new runner, were with me. Thanh had the only Garmin. Eric peeled off after a while, but Thanh and I kept going, we talked the whole way, so the pace was hard but conversational. Turns out he has a 2:56 PR, used to run cross-country for SMU. He is in the middle of his career with three young kids, so he doesn't train much right now, only 30-40 per week. But very helpful and very friendly, I much appreciated his company and his Garmin. With one mile to go he slowed down as planned to protect a hip injury and I booked it in, ended up about 2 minutes ahead of him but no idea how fast it was, probably somewhere between 7:15 and 7:45. He said he averaged right at 8:00 for his 13, so I think it is pretty safe to call mine 20 at 8. In two more weeks I will try for 7:45

Comments

From SlowJoe on Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:42:26 from 69.131.141.92

Excellent! It will only get easier from here too, with Fall coming (eventually to Houston). Good to see you returning to form. Do you have a full marathon planned this Fall?

From Stephen on Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 17:53:35 from 71.195.220.45

That was one incredible run!

From I Just Run on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:10:34 from 67.79.11.242

Wow, great run! You're really going to be ready this year! I can't imagine running 20 miles right now, I ran 2 today and thought I would die.

From derhammer on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:17:36 from 64.245.52.2

Sweet run - great job Flat.

From I Just Run on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 14:51:05 from 67.79.11.242

Hey Flat, did I miss something? Are you traveling again?

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