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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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61F, 100%, ESE 6 mph.  Getting hotter every day, but scheduled for cool weather this weekend.  Hope it materializes.  Not a particularly good run today.  Warmed up 2 then tried to run a tempo at 7:00 but didn't last long.  6:55 (165), 6:58 (173) and 7:01 (177).  Went back down to a 9-minute pace to finish off.  I am hurting in a lot of places, but mostly the problem has been joint stiffness too early in the fast runs.  It would feel great if I could push my aerobic limits on fast runs, but too many other things are going on right now.  Hopefully it will all correct itself.  So anyway I pulled back and finished off the miles for the morning but didn't try to go hard.  11.02 miles in 1:32:41, average 8:24 per mile.  This Saturday's race should be indicative for marathon pacing.  It should tell me if my good race a couple of weeks ago was an anomoly or a trend -- it has been very useful to have these half marathons scheduled like this.  Still, it is hard to tell how much to push getting ready for Boston, don't know whether I am doing too much or too little. 

Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 19:32:31 from 174.27.219.252

Not all runs are stellar. You still got 3 threshold miles in and very nice mileage today. You are doing the right thing with these half-marys as markers for your goal marathon. Hopefully you'll peak in 47.5 days. With a well executed taper, your aches and stiffness will be gone and you'll be ready to toe the line at Beantown fresh and rested! :)

From SlowJoe on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:27:59 from 74.195.74.62

I don't think you can have an anomalistic fast run like that last HM you did. Just a day where you run to your potential. Good luck this weekend, hope y'all get some decent conditions down there.

From allie on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:51:11 from 161.38.218.168

"cool" weather is fine, but nothing cold. i'm coming to texas to ditch the cold!

hope to see you sometime while i'm there -- i'll be flying in friday morning and leaving sunday at noon. i'm staying at the residence inn on six pines drive, and apparently it takes nine seconds by car to get to the race expo. i will also be at the starting line on saturday morning if i decide not to sleep in.

From Claudio on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 14:15:02 from 96.234.237.227

Hi Flatlander - I think the length of that tempo was just right... good luck for Saturday!

From Dan on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 17:56:41 from 24.209.83.20

Have a great race. Too little to late is my nickname right now.

From flatlander on Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:37:39 from 198.207.244.102

Smooth, thanks for the hope and you're right. The pace and distance weren't what I was hoping for but they weren't bad either.

Joe, we are about to find out, I guess.

allie, I'll ask the front desk to wake you up if I don't see you at the start.

Claudio, thanks. Man, you have been running well lately.

Dan, you never know, it might work out pretty well, you just never know.

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