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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.090.000.000.004.09

40F, 58%, NNE 8 mph.  Even better weather than yesterday.  Actually felt a little lighter today, same 4.09 mile route in 39:52, 9:40 per mile, 155 bpm average.

Went back to my other doctor today, the one checking all my chemistry.  I have low iron and low vitamin D2, the latter because I never get outside in the sun.  He thinks I am overtrained, couldn't believe it when I told him I run everyday.  He asked me how I run after taking two days off, and I told him I run faster, of course.  But I am hardly overtrained.  I ran my best two races (two half marathons in a three-week period) early last year at the same time I ran 100 miles in a week, as well as other high-mileage weeks around it.  I told him I think I can train a lot as long as I keep the speed down, it is running hard too often that kills the goose.  So we'll have this guy stick with chemistry for now, still not sure I know what has happened to my body, but he has me on a 12-week regimen with high dosages of vitamins and iron.  Hopefully by then I will be back into a training program enough to check my vitals apples-to-apples with a couple of training cycles last year.  Physical therapy tomorrow.

Comments
From allie on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 15:38:35 from 97.126.218.177

hey flat -- hope things are going well for you, and i hope your back is cooperating. glad to see you are running.

From I Just Run on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 16:21:21 from 67.79.11.242

It's good to see you running! Let me know if the vitamins and iron help, I might try that too :-)

From SlowJoe on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 15:11:01 from 96.61.24.215

I think iron pulled me out of a slump last fall - I'm definitely a fan of it now.

Doesn't the doc understand that your vitamin D levels would be fine if you were running 100-mile weeks again?

From derhammer on Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 13:21:56 from 64.245.52.2

Nice to see you out there on the road again!

I've been supplementing with iron and D for a while now. It seems to help me. I hope the PT goes well.

From ACorn on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:21:50 from 71.213.40.95

Hope all is going well for your flat!

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