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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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44F, 89%, N 8 mph, gusting to 15, rain.  Wasn't any rain scheduled, but the running gods control the weather as an ancillary activity and they don't have laptops.  I walked outside to set my watch, saw the rain and decided to go to the gym.  But I was scheduled to meet Wade and I couldn't raise him on his phone so I went out anyway, figuring the worst that could happen is death.  Rain finally stopped at mile 8, but my long-sleeved cotton shirt was soaked, to the point it wouldn't even hang straight off of my shoulders.  I started out at low heart rate but immediately met up with Wade and he was already running sub-9s so I moved up to his speed.  First mile was 9:53, then 4 with Wade, 8:25 progressively down to 8:02, then sped up again for the final 5:  8:02 (163), 7:34 (167), 7:40 (172), 7:39 (174) and 7:34 (179).  Altogether 10 in 1:21:20, 8:08/mile, 158 bpm, max 181.

Comments
From I Just Run on Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 07:41:51 from 67.79.11.242

Nice run! I opted for the gym this morning.

From Yasir on Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 16:07:47 from 99.20.240.157

wow nice 10 miler.

From Derunzo on Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 17:07:18 from 24.218.179.128

Nice run Flatlander........ if you don't mind me asking, which mountains of the West are you from?

From flatlander on Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:33:44 from 76.31.29.220

Thanks guys. Derunzo, a little complicated. I was born in Utah but didn't really live there much. Mostly grew up in Southeastern Idaho (Montpelier area) and two different places on the high plains of Northern Arizona, which is where I graduated from high school. Used to run with the Navajo Indians, which was humbling. My wife is from Northern California on the Reno side. But we moved to Texas more than 30 years ago for employment. The more interesting question is where will we live when we don't have employment considerations. Still miss the mountains and the desert, but Texas is pretty fine too.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:40:01 from 12.182.148.249

Really nice run. You could always move to west Texas in retirement - little mountains, little desert, all Texas! But then you'd miss all that great humidity training, so...

From Burt on Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:06:27 from 174.17.89.12

There's nothing wrong with dying.

From flatlander on Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 13:19:21 from 198.207.244.102

SJ: I love it out there, have been to Big Bend many times, fantastic place.

Burt: I dunno, may stick around for a little while, at least if it warms up around here.

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