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Madd Maxx 5K Mud Run

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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, Jun 09, 2012

Race: Madd Maxx 5K Mud Run (3.1 Miles) 00:35:00

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
3.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.10

85F, 85%, calm and partly cloudy for a 9:00 start. I am recovering very slowly from my injury, so I decided to run my first mudder as a way of speeding things up, not that my doctor needs to know. Back didn't feel too good but it seems OK. A little stiff but not much pain.

The first task was to find the perfect shoes. I rummaged around in my garage and found of pair of old jogging shoes that I used to run with Crockett through the night in the mud in February. They were right where I shed them, still caked with East Texas mud. Perfect.

Picked up Wade at 7:00 and we drove to Humble, about 45 minutes from here. They had a kids run first, which turned all of the slopes going into the ponds into a slippery nightmare. The biggest and deepest holes were right at the start/finish, so that all of the spectators could get a good show. About 1500 runners trying to get through the holes at the start. Wade got a good line and was considerably down the course before I made it through, not that I would have caught him today.

There were probably about 20 holes on the course, along with some scrambles up banks. Some of them could be bypassed, many were taking advantage but I held the line for the most part. About 1 mile in, an 8-year-old was feeling the heat and didn't like how his race was shaping up. He was telling anybody who would listen that those guys up there were in front because they cheated. I didn't take water and I ran all the tangents. Precious seconds.

I never caught Wade, he said I was about a minute behind him, which puts me at about 35 minutes, a 5K PW. I doubt that I ever got faster than an 8-minute pace, no idea whatsoever about my placing. Hammed it up for the crowd a little bit in the final 3 holes before the finish line. We got fire truck showers and my shoes are now clean.

There is going to be another one in September on the same course, I think I will bring my granddaughters.

Comments

From Rye on Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 21:59:36 from 174.27.113.79

Sounds like loads of fun! Hope you are on the mend. Nothing like a lawyer slinging mud around.

From baldnspicy on Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:54:42 from 72.77.105.53

Great job, Flat. Never done a mudder, but I think I may have to try it sometime. Sounds fun!

From SlowJoe on Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 20:13:36 from 69.131.141.92

Don't know that I will ever foray into the mudders but it was fun to read about your experience! Hope the doctor visits went well today.

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