| 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 | | 298.70 | 37.30 | 9.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 347.00 |
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| Saucony A5 Flat Miles: 39.70 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 98.01 | New Balance Miles: 18.00 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 88.00 | Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 76.50 | Brooks PureFlow Miles: 10.00 | Saucony Trail Shoe Miles: 6.00 | Saucony Kinvara V Blue Miles: 10.00 |
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Colorado Run Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:11:37, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.90 | 11.10 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Colorado Run Half Marathon today. This is a nice local race. Mike and I did it as a hard tempo run. We ran together until the last 100m, then Mike took off. He has a 3:42 1500m PR, so that sealed it. Got $150 for 2nd. Nice morning; felt pretty good.
Splits were 5:23, 5:43, 5:22, 5:43, 10:36 (2-mile), 5:27, 5:59 (long?), 10:55 (2-mile), 5:30, 5:09, 5:07, 35.
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| Saucony A5 Flat Miles: 13.50 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| noon - Power Trail to Poudre Trail south. 9 miles, averaged 7:36/mile.
pm - Fossil creek Park. 3 miles, no watch
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| New Balance Miles: 3.00 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 9.00 |
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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 Poudre Trail south with Mike. 13 miles, mostly easy, but some brisk. Still a little tired from Monday. Averaged 6:47/mile
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| noon - Power Trail to Spring Creek. 9 miles, averaged 7:39/mile
pm - Fossil Creek, 3 miles, no watch
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| Brooks PureFlow Miles: 3.00 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| am - fossil creek park, 4 miles, no watch
noon - Power Trail to Spring Creek. 7 miles, averaged 7:20/mile
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| New Balance Miles: 4.00 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 19.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.50 |
| Long run. Did a loop from my house down Tribly to shields to Cathy Fromme Prairie to sprng creek Trail to Power Trail back to my house. 19.5 miles total, averaged 6:39/mile.
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| Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 19.50 |
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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 |
| 13 miles on Power Trail/Poudre Trail. Did about 5 miles of tempo, 5:45-5:50 pace. Averaged 6:40/mile overall for the run.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 13.00 |
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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 |
| noon - power Trail to Spring Creek Trail. 9 miles, averaged 7:14/mile
pm - Fossil Creek Park. 4 miles, no watch
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| New Balance Miles: 4.00 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 13.50 |
| Workout with Mike. We did 8x1km, 75s recovery. Power Trail to Poudre Trail.
Splits were 3:09, 3:09, 3:09, 3:07, 3:06, 3:02, 3:01, 3:01.
Mike was really pushing the pace the last couple...he was more like 2:55-2:57, but I just let him go. Quite content with 3:01.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 13.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| noon - Power trail to spring creek trail. 9 miles, averagaed 7:30/mile
pm - fossil creek park. 3 miles, no watch
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| Brooks PureFlow Miles: 3.00 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| am - Neighborhood Loop. 3.5 miles, no w atch
noon - Power Trail to Spring creek Trail. 7 miles, averaged 7:30/mile
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| New Balance Miles: 3.50 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 7.00 |
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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 |
| Arapahoe Bend, 2 laps, 6 miles. Averaged 7:10/mile. Did a few strides. Fall Classic Marathon tomorrow.
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| Saucony Trail Shoe Miles: 6.00 |
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Fall Classic Marathon (26.219 Miles) 02:32:29, Place overall: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.80 | 26.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 27.00 |
| Ran the inaugural Fall Classic Marathon today. Kind of funny a first-year race can be named "Classic". But anyway...
I ran entered this race on a whim last weekend, mainly because my training partner Mike was running it, and I didn't want to do a 22-miler by myself this weekend. So a marathon sounded more appealing, especially one with 2500' drop from Estes Park to Loveland. I was a little worried about destroying my quads, as I have not trained for downhill at all, but it turned out okay.
Mike and I had no competition for the race, which was fine by us. Basically it was a paid tempo run, but running 26.2 is hard no matter what pace. My calves and achilles were pretty beat up by the end, plus my groin has been sore again lately. Quads were fine.
This course was a bit harder than the website made it look. It started on a long uphill through Estes (7500'), and there were several other significant uphills. Started at 7500' and ended at 5000', so higher net elevation than any downhill Utah Marathon, plus a decent amoun of uphills, but mostly at the begining and end.
We did negative split (1:17:35, 1:14:55), so that was good. Mike and I ran together, and then I took off the last mile, and won by 4 seconds, to get revenge over him outkicking me the last 100m on the Labor Day race. The last 10K was probaby the best part of our race. The course was missing quite a few mile markers, so the splits below are the best I can do:
6:42, 5:50, 5:58, 5:38, 5:50, 5:40, 6:10, 6:07, 5:50, 5:58, 5:29, 5:43, 5:53, 28:27 (5-mi), 6:15, 11:42 (2-mi), 5:14, 6:08, 11:14 (2-mi), 5:27, 1:05 (0.2-mi)
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| Saucony A5 Flat Miles: 26.20 |
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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 |
| Run club at Altitude. Did about 6 miles, averaged 7:30/mile. Sore from the marathon, but not terrible.
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| Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 6.00 |
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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 |
| noon - Power Trail to Spring Creek Trail. 6 miles, averaged 7:50/mile
pm - Fossil Creek Park. 4 miles, no watch
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| Brooks PureFlow Miles: 4.00 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 12 miles with Mike. Power Trail to Poudre Trail south. Averaged 6:45/mile. Still feeling the marathon the a little bit, but not too bad.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 12.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Power Trail to Spring Creek. 8 miles.
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| Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Power Trail to Poudre Trail, south. 11 miles, averaged 7:09/mile.
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| Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 18.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.75 |
| 30K Death Loop with James and Mike. 2:04 total. Died at the end. As usual.
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| Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 18.75 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| 10-mile progression with Mike. Averaged 6:10/mile through 10 miles, then cooled down the last 4 miles for 14 miles total at 6:22/mile average. Poudre Trail north.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 14.00 |
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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 |
| am - random run around Grand Junction. 6.25 miles, no watch
pm - 6 miles on the river trail in Grand Junction. 6 miles, about 7:15/mile
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| Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 6.00 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 6.26 |
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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 |
| AM - Grand Junction river trail, 8 miles, averaged 7:40/mile
pm - Grand Junction river trail, 5 miles, averaged 7:05/mile
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| Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 5.00 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Grand Junction River trail. Did 10x2-minute fartlek, 1 minute recoveries. Fartlek pace was about 5:20/mile.
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| Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Power Trail to Poudre Trail south. 11 miles, averaged 7:12/mile.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 22.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.00 |
| Boyd Lake with Mike. 22 miles, averaged 6:39/mile.
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| Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 22.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Neighborhood Loop. 3.5 miles, no watch.
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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 |
| Power Trail to Poudre south. 10 miles, averaged 7:40/mile.
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| Saucony Kinvara V Blue Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 298.70 | 37.30 | 9.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 347.00 |
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| Saucony A5 Flat Miles: 39.70 | Asics Blue/Yellow Miles: 98.01 | New Balance Miles: 18.00 | Nike Zoom Fly Miles: 88.00 | Saucony Kinvara V Miles: 76.50 | Brooks PureFlow Miles: 10.00 | Saucony Trail Shoe Miles: 6.00 | Saucony Kinvara V Blue Miles: 10.00 |
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