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Location:

Fort Collins,CO,

Member Since:

May 15, 2003

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Unaided PR's:
5K: 14:48 (Track - 2001)
10K: 30:45 (Track - 2001)
10K: 31:32 (Bolder Boulder - 2013)
Half Marathon: 1:06:09 (Duluth - 2013)
Marathon: 2:17:54 (Grandma's) - 2014)
Marathon: 2:19:47 (Indianapolis Monumental - 2013)
Marathon: 2:19:49 (Indianapolis Monumental - 2010)

Aided PR's:
10K: 29:38 (Des News - 2011)
Half Marathon: 1:05:30 (TOU Half - 2011)
Marathon: 2:18:09 (St George - 2007)
Marathon: 2:17:35 (Boston - 2011)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis in June of 2008. Started taking Enbrel in March, 2009.

Run as much as I can, and race as well as I can. Make the most of however much time I have left as an able-bodied runner.

Training for the 2018 Colorado Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run until I'm old, and then run some more. Stand tall.

Personal:

1 wife, 2 kids. 1 cat. Work as a GIS Specialist/Map Geek

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to your good. - Ovid

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. - Romans 5:1-5

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Saucony Trail Shoe Lifetime Miles:						247.50
Hoka Clifton Lifetime Miles:						491.50
Saucony Type A6 Lifetime Miles:						186.50
Saucony Zealot Lifetime Miles:						478.75
Saucony Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles:						433.50
Saucony Kinvara 6-2 Lifetime Miles:						358.75
Brooks Pure Connect Blue Lifetime Miles:						337.25
New Balance Trainers Lifetime Miles:						314.50
New Balance 1400 Racers Lifetime Miles:						65.00
Brook Pureflow Lifetime Miles:						99.50

Tue, Feb 22, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
14.00	0.00	6.00	0.00	0.00	20.00

AM - Big Workout. Ran up Smithfield Canyon at a brisk pace (6:35/mile for 5 miles), then started a workout of 6x1-mile with 2:00 recovery jog on the way down. The first three repeats were downhill, the 4th one was all uphill (going up Upper Canyon Rd), then 5th one was half up, half down, and the last one was downhill. Splits were 4:54, 4:50, 4:52, 5:22, 5:13, 4:59. Cooled down for three miles up Summit Dr to Hillside. 15 miles total, averaged 6:15/mile for the run.

PM - 5 miles on the Power Trail in Fort Collins, CO. 6:35/mile average. I flew out this afternoon. I have not mentioned it on this blog (since I haven't had time to write much lately), but I have recently picked up a new contract with a firm out here in Ft Collins, which has rounded out my home business (Marathon GIS, Inc) and allowed me to quit my day job. I'm out here to meet the new "bosses" and get oriented with what I will be doing for them (basically will be their in-house GIS staff). For now, I will work remotely from my home office in Smithfield, which is pretty nice.

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00	Asic DS Trainer Miles: 5.00

Comments

From Seth on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 18:54:53 from 199.188.28.8

Wow, nice pace!

From Jon on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:56:49 from 74.177.118.24

How do you like the fort? And what does your new company do?

Sometime you'll have to try the Towers time trial in Ft. Collins, which a local group does almost weekly. I bet you could set the record on it.

http://irunmountains.blogspot.com/2009/06/towers-time-trial.html

From Superfly on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:58:31 from 208.117.127.110

Nice day... good job!

From Nan on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 18:31:48 from 98.245.117.176

Sheesh! Your big workouts amaze me every time. Awesome. BTW, you need to change your personal info. Hasn't that baby been out of the oven for quite some time now?

From Paul on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 18:37:52 from 24.10.141.90

Hmmm, I guess it is a little out of date. She's fully cooked.

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