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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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Thu, Apr 28, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.11	4.00	0.00	0.00	10.11

60F, 59%, NE 7 mph, clear with old moon rising. Weather was too nice to be real, actually the silver lining has a cloud, since our cool clear weather is directly related to the horrific tornadoes that have hit much of the southeast in the last 24 hours. Woke early from insomnia and did all of my run before the seminary run, 5 at low heart rate, average about 9:35, then a transition mile and 4 at GMP: 7:26 (154), 7:40 (156) (oops), 7:36 (158) and 7:30 (162), overall 10.11 miles in 1:27:42, average pace 8:41 per mile. Notwithstanding missing the mark on a couple of them, they were definitely a little easier in the cool weather, gives me hope for UVM, though I am still not really within range of hitting this pace for a whole marathon. Still glad to get 3 of them under 160 bpm though. As for hitting 7:30, I'm just going to have to be patient. Wasn't that long ago that 8:30 felt too fast. I missed hitting it for a marathon twice, but eventually I got it and I'll get this one too, sooner or later.

Comments

From Huans32 on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:58:00 from 138.64.8.51

Holy cow Flat. Your getting in some major miles. And at some great paces. Your going to do some PRing this year. Stay strong and injury free bro.

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:08:20 from 75.241.10.100

Mark, thanks, I hope so. Injury bug usually gets me whenever I get going really good. Probably overdue at this point.

From I Just Run on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:47:12 from 67.79.11.242

Hey Flat, I wanted to run about 20 with the weather the way it was, 55 degrees here. Keep up the good work. When is the UVM race?

From SlowJoe on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:43:02 from 131.59.200.82

And it will only get easier below 60, nice run. 7:30 is not out of the question.

From Dan on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 23:30:03 from 24.209.83.20

I am with Joe- certainly not out of the question. You have been quite consistent with your running and I think it's gonna pay off.

From Rye on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:19:48 from 174.27.65.38

Great mileage this week flat. Keep up the great work. Looks like you are all set for a pr!

From flatlander on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:14:46 from 198.207.244.102

IJR, June 11, starting to get closer. Actually, this has been a pretty long training stretch, no marathon since the first of the year.

Joe, this morning felt easier in the cooler temperatures. If it holds for tomorrow I might be able to do an interesting run.

Dan, thanks, sure hope so.

Rye, could always use one of those. Has your weather improved yet?

From Rye on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 18:01:18 from 75.174.90.222

It snowed 2 inches this morning! We are going to see temps in the 60's next week. Looking forward to a fast recovery and get back in it!

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