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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

Mon, Aug 27, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
16.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	16.00

AM - ran the canal loop (6.5 miles) with Seth Wold and Vance Twitchell. The USU guys took it easy on me. 7:17/mile average pace. Did a mile with the dog afterward.

(1120: 226 miles)

PM - River Trail (8.5 miles) with Jon, Cody, and Dan. 7:59/mile average pace.

(Cascadia: 330 miles)

Comments

From Cody on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:40:49

Google 1 took third in the corporate division at Hood to Coast.

http://www.hoodtocoast.com/results.php

From Jon on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 14:47:26

Your dinner invite might be more inviting if there wasn't a picture of Gill with underwear on his head just above it...

From Jon on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 14:49:37

Maybe a picture of spaghetti?

From Lybi on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 15:40:19

Paul you are so awesome! I wish I could come to your spaghetti dinner!

From Paul Petersen on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 16:10:11

Jon - alright, I changed the picture. Nothing screams "spaghetti dinner" like a penguin and a polar bear speaking German.

From Jon on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 16:14:42

Beauty, eh. Just looking at the picture makes me hungry.

From Cody on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 16:24:16

Caption translated:

Penguin Paul talking - "Jon (bear) quit eating all the food! There is supposed to be enough for 30 people, but you have eaten it all, you pig"

Bear Jon talking - "Huh? where's the buckwheat?"

(German translates very different)

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 16:33:57

Paul - great idea for the dinner. Does anybody know how Hood To Coast compares with WBR? Paul - remove the hyperlink from your e-mail address if you do not want spam bots to get it.

From Paul Petersen on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 17:07:48

Sasha - I'm pretty sure WBR is much much harder than HTC. 6000' of total elevation loss (mostly in the first 12 legs). Most legs are flat or slightly rolling. There are some decent climbs, but nothing like Avon, Trappers, or Ragnar. Not to mention most of it is at sea level. It would be noticeably faster than Del Sol, I imagine.

From Jon on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 23:30:22

Man, German sure can say a lot in a small space with that caption...

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