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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

Wed, Aug 13, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
7.75	0.00	3.75	0.00	0.00	11.50

Warmed up a couple miles then did 6x1000m at the LHS track with Jon and Cody. We got a little cloud cover, which helped, but also they were watering the field (which is artificial turf, oddly enough), so the sprinklers really helped for cooling down too. The workout felt great, better than I expected. The intervals were: 3:20, 3:19, 3:20, 3:16, 3:15, 3:14. We took 200m recovery between intervals, with one longer water break after the 4th.

I called it good after 6 repeats, since there's no need to bury myself when I'm only doing 45 mpw. Cooled down for a bit with Jon and Cody afterward. It definitely wore me out, but it felt good to hit those splits and feel comfortable.

Comments

From Chad on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 23:13:56

Nice workout, Paul. Those are solid splits. I'm planning to run this workout tomorrow.

From Dustin on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 23:55:03

Nice job. Kind of funny, we all did 1000m repeats down here in St. George today. I haven't been doing workouts with Dave, Logan, and Clyde because of work schedules and the drive over to St. George just to run doesn't make sense with the price of gas. Anyway, it was plenty hot tonight around 100 when I started at 7:00 pm.

Glad your back to training, hope things continue to go well. How is your baby doing?

From Paul Petersen on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 23:58:24

Dustin - yeah, a bunch of us are pretty much on the same schedule. It's kind of fun to watch the workouts across the board.

Seth is doing great. I'd be happier if he was sleeping through the night, but he's doing well. He can already flip himself over from his tummy to his back at 13 days old, so I think he's some sort of super-baby. But I'm fairly biased.

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