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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 26, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
20.13	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.13

69F, 96%, SSW 5 mph. Getting hot again. Out the door at 4:15 and ran 10 before the seminary run, then a half hour later went back out for 10 more. Overall 20.13 miles in 2:56:50, 8:42 per mile, 147 bpm. I have acquired some shin splint-type pain low on the front of my right leg and a little bit in my foot. Hurts to flex my foot up, but not to extend it, kind of the opposite of Achilles pain. It is responding well to ice. Hurts like crazy when I go out the second time, then hurts again about 3 miles in before going away. Never had anything like it and trying to think what I'm doing different. I don't think it's the extra miles, most likely I got it lifting weights on Monday. Either that or my stride has changed somehow. I'm watching it, but so far it doesn't look like it will be significant.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:49:59 from 155.219.241.10

Great job, another 20 - wow!

Google anterior tibial tendonitis and see if that's it. I had the same thing in Nov 2010 (on the 18th - http://slowjoe.fastrunningblog.com/blog-11-2010.html). Hurts when you "dorsiflex" the foot. Can you feel it in the tendon if you poke at it (the tendon that goes from the crook of your foot to the big toe)? Long story short, I drowned it with anti-inflammatories and it eventually went away. Tight shin muscles is a possible cause, not sure how to fix that though.

From ACorn on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:54:28 from 174.255.147.85

Keep the ice packs nearby! Sorry to hear your shins are giving you some grief too. Maybe some cross training is in your future

From flatlander on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:46:00 from 198.207.244.102

Joe, it looks to be that one, although the pain in the crease of my foot is more to the outside and I don't have any issues in the tendon going down to the big toe. I haven't been doing my stretching often enough lately and I think that is part of it. All the websites seem super worried about the injury, so maybe I should be more concerned, but I've been through so many of these that I'm kind of jaded, which is probably bad. Thanks for the info.

ACorn, I hope not, but I'll do what's necessary.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 13:20:24 from 155.219.241.10

I am with you on that one. Any injury research always turns up doom and gloom on the web, when in reality it isn't that bad.

From JG on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 18:10:10 from 71.57.246.108

Great miles Flat & nice HR at that pace!

Be careful ... the problem with PF & SF's is they are never correctly diagnosed until it is too late! No one is immune to these things, not even Crocket!

From Rye on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 21:33:16 from 174.27.100.104

Holy schnicky! Every time I check in your running a 20 miler! you are awesome. Hoping you avoid any lasting injury.

From Dan on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 21:37:52 from 24.209.83.20

Sorry about the pain, hope it's nothing and passes soon. Nice 20 miler though.

From I Just Run on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:21 from 67.79.11.242

I think Flat should just go ahead and pre-post 20 milers ever other day for the next couple of years...we all know that's what he's going to run!

Hope the pain goes away soon but even if it doesn't I know it won't hold you back.

From flatlander on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:33:13 from 198.207.244.102

Well, no running this morning, pretty painful overnight although it feels better now. As Joe suggested, it appears to be anterior tibial tendonitis, and from what I can tell it can be somewhat benign or quite serious. Just day to day for now. The good thing is that I have gotten my fitness back, never felt 20 miles to be so doable as it has felt lately. So in theory I could sit on a stationary bike for the next two weeks (which supposedly maintains your fitness level) and still run a good marathon in June, though not a stellar one.

From Steam8 on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 20:06:25 from 166.70.55.77

Sorry to hear about your foot pain. I hope it is nothing serious. Just take it easy for a bit. Do yo have a race coming up?

From SonofaFlatlander on Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:35:18 from 108.195.219.142

ice that thing!

From SlowJoe on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 16:49:26 from 69.131.141.92

Yuck, hope it is the less serious version, and you are running some this week.

From flatlander on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 18:24:01 from 76.31.26.153

Felt pretty good today, I am going to try it in the morning, no further than 5, less than that if it starts to hurt too much. Pretty sure I'll be doing some stationary bike this week.

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