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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

Mon, Feb 28, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.22	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.22

64F, 87% humidity, wind S 10 mph, trying to rain. Very nice morning for running, I think I said it already but the spring smells that come out this time of the year are a nice change from winter. It will be colder tomorrow but not that cold. Got out the door intending to do my big fast run for the week since I am traveling tomorrow and discovered that my Garmin's battery had died again. Second time in a week. My son uses it and I think he is putting it back on the cradle without turning it off. Not complaining though, I am glad to see him running.

I am calling it 10.22 miles because I ran exactly the same thing as Friday. Ran it at about a 10:30 pace (according to the clock on my cell phone) in flat shoes, so I am pretty sure I kept my heart rate in the target range. Another indication is that my legs and Achilles felt good at the end. Hopefully I can get the fast run in tomorrow before I leave for the airport at 7:00 a.m. It will be an early start but shouldn't matter because sleep patterns will be screwed up anyway.

Comments

From I Just Run on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:44:32 from 67.79.11.242

Hey Flat,

I read Der Hammer's run ruport the other day and I like his idea of just going out and running without a Garmin, without a goal, without a schedule, without a specific route...Just Run... We all should probably do that more often!

Hope you have a good trip..!

From Mack on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:49:21 from 71.111.188.189

Nice run Flat. Glad to hear your son is picking up the habit. Have a good trip.

From Dan on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 18:57:35 from 24.209.83.20

Nice running. Now that you got the son running, send him out with a dead Garmin battery... that will be a reminder :) Hope you get quality sleep if not quantity, have a great trip!

From allie on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 20:07:15 from 174.23.253.123

nice running. have a safe trip.

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 20:52:16 from 72.205.227.203

Sometimes it's such a relief to just run naked! Glad you enjoyed that weather--I'm a bit of wimp about that kind of humidity and still feel like 64 degrees is hot!

From flatlander on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 22:02:23 from 76.31.26.153

IJR, thanks, you forget how OCD I am. If I actually enjoyed a run I would know I was doing something wrong.

Thanks Mack. Good luck at Moab.

Dan, thanks, that's a good idea.

Allie, now that you have done a 5-minute plank it would be appropriate for me to go ahead and look up exactly what that is.

April, you made me read my entry again.

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