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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

Tue, Oct 18, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
9.30	0.00	0.00	0.00	9.30

Treadmill, no weather report. Got on the treadmill last night at the hotel and slogged out some miles, just me and 4 or 5 staff people waiting to clean the place up. Quito is at 9500 feet elevation according to one source I consulted, so I wasn't sure how this would work out. I didn't take a heart rate monitor down to the gym, but probably should have. I ran these at easy pace, but it didn't feel that easy. But I am in survival mode right now with work being so busy, just trying to get my miles in, no illusion that I can maintain low heart rate at this altitude. This workout was excruciatingly boring, can't believe I made it through.

More importantly, the treadmill was measuring in kilometers per hour. I noticed that when I set it on 6 and was practically walking. So I cranked it up to 10 kph and that seemed about the same as my normal 10-minute pace (actually, it is, 6.2 mph now that I have a chance to calculate it). So at 45 minutes the machine shuts down and the staff hanging around for me to finish looked up hopefully. I got on the next treadmill and set it on 10, almost ended my running career right there, since it was measuring in mph, i.e., 6-minute pace. I don't run that fast. Once I got the speed back down I looked pointedly at the staff to make sure they weren't laughing -- they quickly glanced away. After 40 minutes that one died, so I got back on the kilometer machine which had re-set and finished another 5 minutes. Adding everything up, 9.3 miles in 1:30. I am pretty sure the staff was commenting about my odor as I walked past. But in addition to not running 6-minute miles, I don't speak Spanish either. Not sure what I am doing here.

Comments

From Smooth on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:01:56 from 174.27.208.222

Laughing so hard, nearly fell off my chair! I wonder what the staff were thinking when you got back on the kilometer machine AGAIN!!! "How long is this crazy grinko gonna torture us!!!! KarRRRUMBA!"

From SlowJoe on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:15:10 from 75.109.104.60

That is pretty funny. Glad you are getting some high-altitude training while entertaining the locals.

From I Just Run on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:38:18 from 166.205.14.153

Your entries are always amusing... :-)

From Mack on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 18:07:44 from 50.39.193.169

Great stuff Flat!

From allie on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 21:40:49 from 24.10.191.18

haha. nice job, flat.

From Rye on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 23:24:17 from 174.27.83.149

Stay longer than a few days and those 6 minute miles are closer than you think.

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