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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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Sat, Oct 10, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.53	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.53

First run since the St. George Marathon, and our first cool morning in Houston, only 56 degrees out. Felt good to stretch things out a little bit. Low heart rate (125-130), splits were, 14:08, 13:10, 13:;14, 12:53 and 6:36 (12:44 pace). Right knee started bothering me a little at the end, I think its nuthin'. Interesting that it took 4 miles for my heart to reach an efficient steady state.

My next marathon is the Texas Marathon in Houston on New Years Day. Instead of doing 3 or 4 big workouts a week I am going to try to run every day but Sunday at a lower level, trying to build endurance and toughness in my joints. I am hoping to avoid injury that way. I was only able to train half the summer for St. George because of knee pain. After it went away I was a new man and I trained like a maniac until a late taper.

Comments

From Samgee on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 15:11:55 from 216.126.208.5

Hello Flatlander

From Burt on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 17:02:17 from 98.167.151.26

Welcome to the blog. Congrats on the marathons and good luck in Houston on New Year's.

From flatlander on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:50:08 from 70.196.80.28

Thanks, Samgee, hope your race goes well.

Burt, one of my brothers lives in Queen Creek and most of us (a bunch) are planning to run a half marathon there on January 30. Thanks for the comment.

From josse on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 17:29:13 from 70.193.135.197

Hey welcome to the blog:) What I would do is run 6 days a week and take sundays off (your body will thank you). Also something I like to do is go in 4 week training cycles. Build weekly for 3 week and take a recovery week on the 4th ( 20, 23, 25, 20 miles a week). Then the next cycle start with the 23 miles, 25, 28, and back down to 22. I really have no idea what your totals have been but you get the point and just don't raise your weekly miles more than 10% a week. Really consistency is the key and really listen to your body. If you have problems with higher mileage use crosstraining as a way to supplement, I do this and run good times. Also get in the habit of stretching it will be the best tool for injury prevention, I do it daily. Good luck!!

From Burt on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 17:46:52 from 98.167.151.26

Flatlander - what is your brother's name? I probably don't know him, but that would be cool if I did. And you must be talking about London's Run. I did the half marathon in 2008 and the 10k in 2009. Such a great event. I'll probably do it next year to if I'm still out here.

From flatlander on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 21:29:40 from 70.196.80.28

josse, thanks for the encouragement, my miles at times aren't all that much higher than your example especially when I am fighting an injury, although I do break 50 once in a while just before a taper; haven't tried cross-training yet, that might be a good idea; right now just feeling my way making sure I don't have any residual effects from the marathon before starting in too earnestly -- I don't want to waste a month of training "recovering", but I also don't want to get injured right out of the chute.

burt, his name is Kerry, about 45; he just started running again after many sedentary years, in order to get ready for the January race, and you're right, it's called London's Run; he hasn't been running long though, so you probably haven't met him yet; we have a "race within a race" going with all of the siblings, we're calling it the Thurber Smackdown and there are enough of us that we are angling for a volume discount; thanks again for chiming in on my new blog.

From josse on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:38:59 from 70.192.179.99

Recovery is very important, you can't get better without recovery. It will not be wasted, injury is the only thing that wastes training.

From lightitup on Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 14:25:58 from 67.185.20.107

Hey! I'm here and I found you! I'm going to love this.

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