| 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 | | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 |
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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 |
| Quick update. We camped in Jackson Hole last weekend, which meant that I did some hiking on my foot. We did a fairly rigorous hike Saturday and an easy one on Sunday. On top of that the tape job my PT did, although it worked well, tore off a bit of skin when he took it off at my appointment Friday morning. So he deferred taping again so that the skin could heal, meaning that I had to hike around "naked". My foot definitely was pretty sore by the end of the weekend, although soaking it in the icy Gros Ventre River helped a good deal. When we got home Sunday night the LED light therapy device I had ordered was there, and I started using it that night. I've been using it 2-3 times a day on both my foot and groin, and both have had substantial improvement. Of course, this along with the other PT treatments that I do every day, bu the timing and rate of improvement has been higher than any other time span, making me think that the LED therapy is really working. This has been without tape too. Definitely an encouragement. I've been holding off doing any elliptical and have been focusing just on physical therapy exercises. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| 20 minutes elliptical plus PT exercises. Foot and groin are making good progress. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Went for bike ride. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| PT in morning. 30 minutes elliptical in evening. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 30 minutes elliptical | | Add Comment |
| | 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 |
| Had 2hr full-body deep massage last night. I've never had deep tissue massage before, and it was something else! The therapist hit all my problem areas, and got my foot feeling pretty close to normal. Afterwards I could grab my heel and squeeze hard without pain, which, as anyone who's had plantar fasciitis knows, is a good sign. I woke up this morning with no pain. So it was definitely beneficial, and we'll see how long it sticks. In the meantime, I'll continue taping and doing the treatments that I have been doing and hope that it continues to get stronger and more stable. The therapist also worked over my groin and got into the strain as deep as I let her (had to tell her to back off a few times due to horrible pain). My groin felt much better this morning than it had in a while, so it definitely helped. Will continue PT on my groin as well to strengthen and improve flexibility, but hopefully the massage broke the cycle of inflammation. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| PT in morning, chiro in evening, then 25 minutes on elliptical. My groin strain has shown slow but steady significant improvement over the last few weeks, quantified this morning by me being able to do a higher weight on the adductor machine than before. My foot also continues to improve slowly, and the effects of the massage from two weeks ago is still lingering. I go in for another 2-hr deep massage tomorrow. Now that the inflammation in my fascia is down a bit, I'm working more on strengthening my foot, as it is quite weak from the layoff. I'm starting to do barefoot single-calf raises, and have seen progression in strength already. I'm back from vacation in Michigan. I didn't do much in Michigan exercise-wise, except for exercising my stomach by eating rich foods. All things considered, my body came off of vacation feeling pretty good, despite all the travel, sleeping in strange beds, and being off my anti-inflammitory diet. I gained a few pounds but that's about the worst of it. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Biked to gym in morning, and did 10 minutes elliptical, 10 minutes stair stepper, and 10 minutes walking at 10% incline on treadmill. The latter two exercises more for strengthening my groin than cardio. Did some stretching and weight-lifting too. I've cut back my formal PT sessions at the hospital to once a week. All they did was have me do exercises that I could do on my own in the gym, so I didn't see the point of paying for something I can do for free. I came out of my massage yesterday pretty good. I'm now walking completely normal, my shoulder has much better range of motion (which lets me lift weights again), and my groin is getting better every day (which lets me ease into core exercises again). I'm going to try to get back into a more consistent cross-training and lifting routine to prepare myself for running by the end of August. As long as my foot stays stable and my groin continues to improve at it's current rate, I think I may be able to start running slow again in several weeks. Technically I could probably start running now, but I don't want another setback, but instead want to strengthen all my muscles first. The season is shot, so there's no real rush to run by a certain date. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 30 minutes elliptical plus lifting and stretching. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 20 minutes elliptical, 10 minutes stair-stepper, 10 minutes treadmill walking at 10% incline. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Biked to gym. 30 minutes on elliptical, then some lifting and stretching. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 |
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