| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 219.75 | 11.50 | 6.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 241.25 |
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| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 34.50 | Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 79.50 | Saucony Hattori Miles: 11.00 | Asics DS Sky Speed 2 Miles: 19.00 | Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 54.25 | Brooks Green Silence Miles: 32.00 | Asics Blur 33 Miles: 6.00 | Brooks PureConnect Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Easy 9 miles, no watch. |
| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 15.50 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| Ran out to Kathy Fromme Prairie. Was supposed to do 6 mile mp tempo, but cut it way short due to my stomach feeling a little sick. Just jogged it in, and tried to enjoy another sunny, warm day, 17 miles totalm averaged 6:55/mile. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 17.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Fossil Creek to Mason Trail. 7 miles, no watch. |
| Saucony Hattori Miles: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles, averaged 6:55/mile. |
| Asics DS Sky Speed 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Power Trail to Spring Creek Trail to Poudre Trail. 13 miles. Averaged about 6:30/mile on the way out, and picked it up to 6:00/mile on the way back. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles, no watch. |
| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles. Had some steam to blow off, so pace ended up a little quicker than usual, about 6:30/mile. In other news, by original Kinvaras turned over 1500 miles. I feel like they are now nicely broken in. |
| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.50 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.50 |
| Ran early morning to avoid some schedule conflicts and pending bad weather. Ran the Power Trail to Spring Creek Trail to Mason Trail to Fossil Creek Trail loop. 16.5 miles total. Did 4-3-2-1 mp tempo workoutm with 1 minute recovery for each mile of the respective interval set. pace was pretty slow, I think due to the dark and my nervous system being half asleep, especially at the beginning. Splits were (6:06, 6:12, 6:14, 5:58), (5:47, 5:42, 5:43), (5:36, 5:41), (5:29). Averaged 6:26/mile overall. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 16.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Loveland Trail, west, from home. 9 miles, averaged 6:29/mile. |
| Asics DS Sky Speed 2 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles, averaged 6:46/mile. Did some strides. |
| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Power Trail to Spring Creek Trail to Poudre Trail, 13 miles. I was supposed to do a workout...left my GPS on the curb at work to pick up satellites while I changed clothes...came back outside and it was gone! (turns out my boss saw it, thought someone had just left it there by accident, and picked it up). So that nixed any kind of formal workout, since I don't even have a sports watch with me anymore. So just tried to keep a lot of the run at tinman tempo pace, and did about 10 strides on the way back. |
| Brooks Green Silence Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| Ran home for lunch. 8.25 miles, averaged 6:45/mile. |
| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 8.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| Ran home for lunch. Slow, no watch. Did a few strides. |
| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 7.75 |
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Loveland Sweetheart Classic 4-miler (4 Miles) 00:20:24, Place overall: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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Ran the Loveland 4-miler today, which is my first race since early October of last year. Purpose was just to be a rust-buster, and get a good idea of where I'm at fitness-wise. And hopefully win, of course. It ended up being perfect conditions for a race, sunny and warming to mid-40s by the 10AM start time (on route to low 60s for the afternoon high). No wind, which is big this time of year on the Front Range. The course was a flat loop that goes around Lake Loveland (starts and ends at the high school). My goal going in was to break 21:00, but I thought that faster was a possibility. Warmed up by running the course, and then some strides. Saw one other guy wearing a Boulder Running Company singlet (Bobby Reyes), so knew I would have some competition at least from him (BRC has a really good racing team every year). The race started, and the BRC guy took the lead right off the bat, and I just tried to stay on his shoulder. Pace was a little fast for me, but didn't seem insane either, so I decided to stick with him rather than letting him go. Didn't hear anyone behind me, so it would probably just be the two of us. Hit the first mile in 4:51, which indeed was a "bit" fast (I was planning on 5:05). But I think it was a net downhill, so that could explain part of it. Soon after the first mile I was able to pull up next to the BRC guy, and then moments later he dropped behind me. I was a little surprised to gap him. 2nd mile split was 5:12, so a bit slower, but still well within where I thought I should run. Still feeling good for the third mile, and now definitely all alone, other than the bike pacer. But for my first race of the year, and given my mileage of 60-70/week, I was feeling strong and snappy. Hit 5:03 for Mile 3, meaning my 5K was somewhere near 15:40. Tried to keep the pace going for the last mile, and even pick it up. Felt like my body was responding (other than my lungs, which were starting to burn...cursed short races...), but my last mile ended up being the slowest at 5:16. It's possible that Mile 3 was a little off, making 3 seem fast and 4 seem slow, but no matter. Ended up 20:24 for my final time, which is probably a road 4-mile PR, since I never run this distance. I'm really happy with how I felt, and think that I pushed hard and got a good feel for my real fitness on a nice day and on a fast course. 2nd place guy ended up 21:40. I'll try to up my mileage over the next few weeks by introducing doubles. We'll see...work is really busy, so I barely have time to think about running anymore...just need to put in some time and sound workouts and good things will happen though.
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| Asics Blur 33 Miles: 6.00 | Brooks Green Silence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Very easy 6 miles, Fossil Creek Trail. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.25 |
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AM - easy 4 miles, past Cottonwood Plains. 8:00/mile average.
noon - ran home for lunch. 8.25 miles, averaged 7:30/mile.
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| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 8.25 | Brooks PureConnect Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles, no watch. Did some strides. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Power Trail to Poudre Trail. Warmed up 3 miles, then did 6x1-mile, with 2-min recovery. 3 miles cooldown. Splits were 5:21, 5:15, 5:18, 5:15, 5:17, 5:15. 13 miles total, averaged 6:20/mile.
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| Brooks Green Silence Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Ran home for lunch. 10 miles, no watch. |
| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 11.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.75 |
| am - fossil creek park, easy 4 miles noon - ran home for lunch. 7.75 miles |
| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 7.75 | Saucony Hattori Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| Ran the Horsetooth Half course, then back on Overland. Definitely need some work on the hills; legs were jello by 8 miles. Did some tinman tempo miles. 17 miles, averaged 6:15/mile overall. Good run. |
| Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 17.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Finally got a real snow storm, with 14 inches of snow in some places. And I got the flu. So no running the last two days. Maybe tomorrow. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| Ran home for lunch. Stomach still not feeling right. 7.75 miles. |
| Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 7.75 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 219.75 | 11.50 | 6.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 241.25 |
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| Saucony Kinvara Miles: 34.50 | Brooks Launch Yellow Miles: 79.50 | Saucony Hattori Miles: 11.00 | Asics DS Sky Speed 2 Miles: 19.00 | Saucony Kinvara 3 Miles: 54.25 | Brooks Green Silence Miles: 32.00 | Asics Blur 33 Miles: 6.00 | Brooks PureConnect Miles: 4.00 |
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