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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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Wed, Feb 23, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
10.19	0.00	0.00	0.00	10.19

67F, 87% humidity, wind SE 6 mph. Not a good morning for running, there I said it. At least it wasn't cold. Ran 10.19 miles in 1:48:43, average pace 10:40 per mile, LHR and regular-weight shoes. Heat started getting to me towards the end, I was soaked to the skin by the time I finished. Lots of pain left in my legs from yesterday's run, some of it in new spots. I got two bad cramps in my right hamstring yesterday morning and it was still hurting today, to the point it altered my stride for the first few miles. Despite the negative factors that kept my LHR speed slow this morning (heat, heavy shoes, hung over legs), I think the bottom line is it is slower overall right now. I have continued to improve on the high end for the first couple of months this year, but my guess is that unless I get the low end back I will eventually run out of capacity to get more speed. That isn't a traditional way to think about conditioning, but it makes sense to me. Right now I seem to be unwilling to forget about races and just do LHR runs for 8-12 weeks, which is really what it takes. If I don't have a race coming up in the next few weeks I start to get impatient.

Comments

From Mack on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 15:24:24 from 71.111.188.189

Nice run Flat. I can relate to the need for a race thing. I'm the same way.

From I Just Run on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:47:45 from 67.79.11.242

This may sound crazy but sometimes it seems I have more aches and pains on my during and after my slow run days...probably all mental!

From Rye on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 18:01:26 from 174.27.82.195

You are soooo steady! Great job getting the miles in.

From flatlander on Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 18:12:29 from 75.214.186.218

Mack, yeah that's it I guess, I always like to be working toward a race. I'm probably more goal-oriented than I like to admit.

IJR, you hit it right on the button in my opinion. I think slow runs work out a different system than fast ones, my run yesterday reinforced that in my mind.

Rye, thanks, trying to make sure they are good miles.

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