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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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Sat, Dec 14, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.11	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.11

45F, 80%, N. 15-20 mph. Paced my daughter Jennifer in a half marathon in Temple, TX today. The race didn't start until 8:45, so I got up early and drove from home, got to the start line about an hour early and met my daughter who had my race packet. Warmed up with a couple of laps around the parking lot, then the race started. Jennifer held a steady pace throughout the course, which was a short out, two loops of 6+ miles, then back. Her goal was 8:15 to 8:20 per mile. She held that until about mile 9, slowed down to the 8:25 to 8:35 range (she was getting tired and wanted to make sure she didn't bonk), then picked it up for the last 5K. There was one stretch toward the end of the loop that was a long uphill into the wind, where I was able to make myself useful as a mobile wind break. Jennifer picked it up the last two miles, 8:08, 8:01 then a sub-7 sprint into the finish. If I get tired during a race I never get my speed back, not sure how she does that. She got a PR by 8 seconds, 1:48:30, 8:17 average pace. I told her at the 12.5 mile point that if she held a 10-minute pace she would get her PR, but my math was way off, good thing she didn't listen to me. I had general joint stiffness for much of the day, otherwise felt fine. We met another father/daughter team at the beginning of the second lap and ran with them for 3 or 4 miles before they pulled away slightly, beating us by about 20-30 seconds. Had a lot of fun and it appears I am finally leaving the flu behind, though I still have a persistent cough. Originally this was going to be a goal race for me, but right now I will be lucky to have a good showing at the Kingwood marathon on New Years Day. Not getting sick is as much a part of a successful training cycle as anything else -- I have failed this test a number of times, not sure how to prevent it.

Comments

From Tom K on Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 07:43:46 from 71.203.20.181

What an excellent day, and congrats to your daughter! I hope you can shake that cough, Flat. Good luck on new year's day.

From SlowJoe on Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 07:48:48 from 66.69.93.8

Excellent - congrats to your daughter, sounds like a great morning. I think you still have time to shake out the crud and run a good race on the 1st.

From I Just Run on Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 14:30:45 from 12.162.141.2

Great fun running with your daughter. Not a bad training run for you too!

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