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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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Thu, Sep 27, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
8.00	4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.00

Moderate Workout today. I wanted a progression run, with a couple honest warmup miles, then to brisk, then to tinman tempo, then to MP, and then a short cooldown. I did the Millville Hill Loop, the old, tough standard. Here's how it went.

Mile Split
Comment
1 6:43 warmup
2 6:26 warmup
3 6:14 "brisk" pace; uphill
4 5:56 tinman; rolling
5 5:48 tinman; half down, half up
6 6:20 MP; all uphill
7 5:46 tinman; rolling
8 5:06 MP; downhill
9 5:45 half MP, half tinman; downhill
10 5:24 MP; rolling
11 6:33 cooldown
12 6:30 cooldown

It was a really good workout, definitely the fastest I've done this loop. One horse neighing, maybe one and a half. 6:20 is the fastest I've done the big hill mile by about 10 seconds, and it felt excellent. This mile has about 280 ft elevation gain (~5% gradient). After the big hill, I recovered for a while on the flat, and then tore into the big downhill. 5:00 pace felt conversational at times. I hit a bio-break after Mile 8 at a park, and then it took me about another half mile to find my rhythm again, but I was hitting 5:20-pace on the last half of that mile. The last mile of the tempo I just held 5:25. 6:02/mile average pace for the run.

(Triax: 125 miles)

Comments

From Cody on Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:02:21

Impressive

From James on Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 14:57:24

Good workout today, can I borrow your legs? You are looking good for next week!

From Mike K on Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 20:50:18

Calvin College was in action today.

1. GRAND VALLEY STATE

1 11 17 25 39 (43) (45) = 93

2. CALVIN COLLEGE

4 12 27 28 35 (76) (77) = 106

3. ILLINOIS STATE

7 8 14 21 80 (88)(101) = 130

4. U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY

6 9 18 50 72 (91)(103) = 155

5. WINDSOR

10 29 40 47 52 (53) (75) = 178

6. AKRON

13 20 42 46 68 (69) (78) = 189

I was checking on Pat Smyth's results and found these results.

http://und.cstv.com/sports/c-xc/stats/2007-2008/nd-invite-results.html

From Paul Petersen on Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 22:39:42

Grand Valley beat us?? That's a shame. The Notre Dame meet was always interesting. There is a "little school" race and a "big school" race. If you win the little school race, you get to run the big school race the next year. We would always bounce back and forth. We'd win the little race, then move up the next year and get pummeled by Notre Dame, NC State, Duke, Stanford, or whatever other D-I schools would show up that particular year. Then we'd get booted back down to the minor leagues the next year.

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