For Whom the Dogs Bark

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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, Sep 03, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.22	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.22

77F, 97% humidity, wind calm, partly cloudy, rain moving in, will be cooler in the morning. Perfect running weather out there this morning. Ran 11.22 miles in 2:00:15, average pace 10:43 per mile, low heart rate and flat shoes. Ran hard yesterday and again tomorrow, so this morning was a chance to get some miles on my flat shoes. It worked pretty well, feet, ankles and calves tired but doing fine. Pretty happy with a 10:43 average in these conditions. The main after-effect of running hard is cramping. I got a mega-cramp yesterday sitting in a conference room, taking comments on a construction contract and entering them on my laptop. It wasn't really a situation where it was appropriate to scream, even though the other side made me want to vocalize for other reasons. So I just smiled, calmly offered a couple of constructive comments, typed away and slowly died inside from the pain. It was a long one too, took a couple of minutes for my hamstring to relax, what a relief when it finally did.

My wife was awake when I got up this morning. She said our daughter came in late last night, a day early. She goes to college in San Marcos and turns 21 on Monday. This girl has had a lot of ups and downs, she makes me mad pretty often, but my heart goes out to her more than any other kid. So vulnerable and sweet, so unsteady. Looking forward to a nice holiday weekend with the family, hope y'all are too.

Comments

From baldnspicy on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:15:56 from 167.164.3.140

Hey Flat, nice run! Cramping is no fun especially if you can't yell out some choice words. :-)

Hope your weekend is great, especially with your daughter at home. Kids are blessings even when they have to make their own mistakes. I continue to make plenty.

From Burt on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 00:47:20 from 68.225.214.248

Yikes! Killer cramp!

From SlowJoe on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 04:34:06 from 214.13.130.104

Nice cramp story! I've never had one in the hammy but I can imagine it's really painful, very impressive.

I almost went to Texas State too, after I basically flunked out of UT, but they wait-listed me due to my low college GPA (I never went to class and stayed drunk a lot while in Austin, made many mistakes, etc.). So I went to SFA. It was right around age 21 when I got my act together and got serious about school. Ended up doing great the rest of the way, so maybe there are more ups than downs in store for your daughter. Anyway, enjoy the visit and the long weekend!

From Rye on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:56:28 from 71.209.13.147

Life and its battles. Have a great visit and even better weekend and great job roughing it out with some dignity!

From flatlander on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 14:13:43 from 76.31.26.153

Thanks for the encouragement, guys. I very much enjoy reading your blogs.

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