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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, Mar 31, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.07

66F, 100%, calm and cloudy. Got out the door at 5:00, then met Wade in his neighborhood at 6:00. We ran a while and met my daughter back at our house at 7:00. She is almost 6 months pregnant. Wade and I had been hitting about 9:45 per mile up until then, but my daughter got us going, we were in the low 9s by the time she peeled off after 4+ miles. Ran another mile with Wade, at which point I had 16.5, said good-bye and slogged out the remaining 3.5 in my neighborhood. I was fighting this run mentally all the way to dropping Wade off, it has been way too long since I ran 20 miles. At one point my cumulative pace was 9:41 -- I don't run much at this speed and it was playing with my head. Also started bleeding despite using BodyGlide, so I was holding my shirt away from my chest for 6 miles -- that was an unusual sight. But for the last 5K I picked it up naturally, wasn't really pushing anything, and felt better mentally. But not completely acclimated to the heat yet, it will take a couple of weeks, maybe longer. 20.07 miles in 3:10:27, 9:29 per mile. Forgot to look at the temperature when I got back but it was getting pretty warm, ran the last 5 miles on a couple of sips of water and felt a little nauseous when I got back. Lower gut was also hurting from running fast yesterday, but hopefully it will be OK by Monday.

Comments

From Rye on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:02:50 from 174.27.71.245

Back to those 20 mile runs again! Nice. The red from your blood blends in nicely with the orange shirt.......

From allie on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 13:41:08 from 161.38.218.168

nice job with the 20! you are so good at those. sorry about the bleeding though -- ouch.

From SlowJoe on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 15:31:20 from 74.197.87.208

3 hours in the soup, sounds like fun...

Good miles, can't believe it's just March with this heat.

From PRE on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:14:22 from 99.50.213.11

Flatlander,

Hi. Nice miles...so warmer weather hits and to stay...maybe good, maybe not. Not sure. Warmer in CT than had been, but not 66 degrees yet.

Happy Belated Birthday.

So I am not sure, you running Boston?

From flatlander on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 17:07:14 from 76.31.26.153

Rye, unfortunately I was wearing white today!

Thanks allie, I'll survive. I thought BodyGlide was 100% effective.

Joe, I forgot to check the temperature when I got back, but it definitely went up during the run. It was pretty tolerable for the first 5 miles. But I really don't mind, I can train just as well in the heat. Last year I benefited at SGM because of it.

PRE, thanks; unfortunately I have pulled out of Boston due to illness and other training interruptions (mainly too much travel). I'll probably do something in June if I can get my conditioning back.

From Burt on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 17:14:27 from 72.223.93.158

Body Glide doesn't work when you're wearing a shirt made out of brillo pads.

From Dan on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 18:00:21 from 24.209.83.20

Ouch.. Been there on the holding the shirt out... Hope you're better than ok Monday

From I Just Run on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:38:16 from 67.79.11.242

Nothing like a pregnant woman to speed up your pace :-) I would be intimidated!

I can't seem to get enough glide on either...same problem :-(

From Smooth on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 15:18:32 from 174.27.212.157

How are you feeling today?

GOOD JOB battling with the heat, chaffing and all. I am certain that all the miles you banked are going to pay you back like interests in the bank!

Kudos to your prego daughter! :)

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 13:25:58 from 64.129.54.210

Burt, I think they all are, at least after a couple of times through the washing machine. I'm just a sensitive guy.

Dan, lol, I thought for sure I was the only one!

IJR, she whipped us into shape pretty fast out there.

Smooth, much better, thanks, no lasting scars from Saturday.

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