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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

Sat, Nov 21, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

64F, 89%, (DP 61F), calm, then gusty and raining off and on. Intended to go further than this, but I'm not going to run slower than 8:30 and I started having a hard time holding that pace, so I called it a day at standard long run length. Mainly due to working hard yesterday and lacking sleep, plus the temperature was certainly not ideal this morning. 2:49:59 total time, 8:30/mile, 146 bpm average, 158 max, but that was only because I sped up the last 2 miles to get the overall time I wanted. Until then I was holding steady at 151 in the latter miles. Right now, it is a leg thing, not a heart rate thing.

There are several running groups in the area and they all converged on my neighborhood this morning. People are figuring out that with streetlights, wide streets and cautious drivers, this is a good place to run. Not a lot of trails around here. It was interesting seeing some of the groups moving very slowly, lots of runners carrying three or four bottles of various liquid concoctions. But it seems to be a quiet revolution taking place. People everywhere, all shapes and sizes, are starting to understand the benefits of running, and that it doesn't matter what speed you are running or how much gear you want to haul around. Didn't see any old guys though, I seem to have that category to myself.

Comments

From Dan on Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 20:58:13 from 192.96.205.134

Nice run, thats a solid 20 for sure. I might have to go run there because...

1) You said its a nice place to run

2) I cant let you be the only old guy

From flatlander on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:57:48 from 76.31.29.220

Dang, there goes my age group award.

From Tom K on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 07:49:27 from 174.58.54.215

Sad to see you cutting back on the miles, Flat!

You know, of course, the packs of new runners are going to come to you for advice. You're going to be like a young Hal Higdon!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:06:46 from 45.18.50.53

Good to see the running craze has not subsided yet. And we're all still buying the high-priced running crap!

Lol @ Tom

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