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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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30 minutes on elliptical; 3 miles running easy on road and track with 6x100 striders. Lower back is rather irritated today, which affected my stride some. Knee a little bit more sore than usual as well, but tolerable.

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 18:38:53

Paul:

How long have you had this problem with the knee and lower back?

From Paul Petersen on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 20:04:57

I've been having lower back pain AT LEAST since last July after Des News, most likely since mid-June. It came and went and was tolerable until after Alta Peruvian and Top of Utah; in the days after Top of Utah I could not run at all it was so bad, and seeing a chiropractor was the only thing that got me through St. George. It got a bit better during my three months off, but never really went away, and has flared up again the last month.

I experienced patellofemoral pain in my left knee during the entire summer last year, and simply ran through it and took a lot of ibuprofin. I saw an orthopedic doctor after St. George, who gave me some good stretches and exercises, and it went away during my three months off rest and has not returned. The bad news is that my right knee developed the exact same thing in February.

The common thread to both of these problems may be very tight hamstrings, and I am working on stretching them. I have starting seeing a physical therapists for both these problems and am hoping for the best.

The funny thing is that I was completely injury-free for the last ten years. As a result, I neglected my stretching for years, and I think all the downhill pounding from racing and training for the Grand Slam took it's toll.

From Sasha Pachev on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 21:57:48

Note that your tendency to injury appeared around the same time you experienced a loss in your 5 K speed. Some people blame the loss of speed on getting older. I do not buy it. There are a lot of older folks that are just as fast after 30 or even 40 as they were in their 20s. However, I believe aging + doing something wrong leads to the loss of speed and to increased risk of injury.

From Paul Petersen on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:43:13

That is an interested observation, and it may have some merit. However, I started losing 5k speed immediately after college. The 15:40 I ran at Draper in 2003 is a far cry from sub-14:50 in 2001. I didn't have any problems with injury until 2005. But that being said, patellofemoral pain is often caused by muscle imbalances, and back pain can be cause by lack of core strength, and perhaps these have changed since college due to my training and conditioning (or lack thereof). I definitely don't have the abs I used to. I also weighed over 140lbs for most of last summer, and my proper racing weight is 132, so that could have increased stress and injury.

Mostly, though, I'm pretty sure my problems came from downhill marathons. Downhill running on pavement for a marathon distance is EXTREMELY hard on one's body, and I did 4 downhill marathons last year, as well as the Peruvian.

By the way, I blame my loss of speed not on age, but on training!

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 16:37:50

Some thoughts. It took only 2 marathons for the problems to start, one on pavement (Ogden) and one on dirt three weeks later (Park City). Ogden is a very mild downhill except for the section after 18.

You ran 15:38 in Draper Days in 2003. Although the course has a cumulative 0.4% drop, most track runners I know of never hit their sea-level track PRs on it. So while 14:47 at sea level on the track is still probably a better performance, 15:38 in Draper Days is not that far away from it.

How much did you weigh in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004?

From Paul Petersen on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 21:58:06

I weighed about 132-133 through track season of 2001, and then I quit running for about a year, so I imagine I was in the mid-140s for 2002. 2003 and 2004 I was probably in the mid 130s, as I was doing high mileage those summers. 2005 I never really got my weight down, because my mileage never got very high. I don't start losing weight until I hit 70+ miles/week. During off-seasons of all those years I got up to high 140s to low 150s. Pretty fat.

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