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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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Tue, May 10, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.96	3.11	0.00	0.00	12.07

75F, 83%, SE 12-17 mph, cloudy and blustery but no rain. Pretty good running weather. Somewhat apprehensively I decided to do 1K intervals at GMP. Slept in, spent a little extra time switching my watch over to metric and was out the door at 6. Ran 10K at LHR, average pace 6:01 per km (9:40 per mile), was happy about that pace in the heat. Then 1 km transition into the first interval and 1km active recovery between intervals. Really enjoyed my faster interval times; after careful experimentation I have concluded that Ks are faster than Ms and I think we should switch. Ran the GMP intervals at 4:44 (7:36)(154); 4:39 (7:29)(158); 4:40 (7:30)(160); 4:35 (7:25)(166); and 4:36 (7:28)(167). Had trouble stretching out my stride on the first one or two intervals but then things loosened up somewhat and was relatively comfortable for the rest of the run. But now that I have cooled off I am hurting some (mostly the achilles, surprisingly) and may have to stay slow for most of the week. Plus I need more hill work on the TM, hard to know how to allocate precious resources with only this week and two more before my taper. Overall 19.43 km (12.07 miles) at 8:57 per mile.

Comments

From SlowJoe on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 14:43:57 from 131.59.200.80

Let's start the movement to switch to the metric system. I'd much rather be at 4:40 pace than 7:30.

From lightitup on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 15:19:52 from 174.31.66.37

You're way ahead of me on the running lingo, but I do have vast experience in the area of Achilles tendinitis (yes they misspell it that way).

Don't get it! Concentric stretches, all the way. Every day. Look it up, great research...OH. And keep running too. You will hear other advice.

All other advice is wrong. :)

From I Just Run on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 15:42:22 from 67.79.11.242

I was thinking about going to the simple slow/fast - short/long descriptions on my reports but then I realized fast is actully slow to most others and my long was actually short to many others....Now I'm really confused!

From baldnspicy on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 18:22:11 from 72.95.164.253

I'm with Joe. Of course, when you're running as many miles as I am right now, it's all about the same pace either way.

Great job and always an enjoyable read!

From Dan on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 00:47:59 from 24.209.83.20

Good miles, and good advice -you looking forward to the taper? I find them hard even though I see them work...the urge to keep running is there when you have to cut back

From Mack on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 14:15:44 from 50.39.193.169

Nice workout Flat! I haven't been following you for a while. What race are you tapering for?

From Rye on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 15:28:57 from 168.103.139.178

Hopefully they are just phantom pains...Enjoy the taper and don't forget to have some confidence going into the final couple of weeks. You have worked hard.

From flatlander on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 22:37:13 from 76.31.26.153

SJ, that makes two of us on board. Two more and we can start the wave.

E, what are concentric stretches? Pictures please.

IJR, just run.

BNS, I can convert that to Ks if you want.

Dan, I always look forward to the taper until it actually arrives, then I feel like I am wasting time with a race bearing down on me. Turns me into a bundle of nerves.

Mack, going to run UVM again this year. If I miss my goal by 15 minutes again this might be the last time, sure liked going up there and doing the race last year though.

Rye, thanks. I never lack confidence, just talent.

From derhammer on Fri, May 13, 2011 at 17:44:59 from 192.156.110.40

I read that the Hanson's have their runners do a MGP run of 26.2 KM before a marathon - they said it is the mental part of seeing that 26.2 at the end of the run that helps, even though it is KMs. Haven't tried it myself, though.

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