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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, Nov 08, 2006

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.00	4.00

Crosstraining day. Did 40 minutes on the elliptical, lifted, and stretched. My gym got 6 brand new ellipticals. Joy.

Comments

From Cody on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 18:50:50

How are the knees after the crash and burn last night? Lets sue the construction company for putting that extention cord across the sidewalk. (For those who missed it, we were running in the dark maybe 3 houses away from Paul's house (end of the run) when suddenly he hit the ground hard after tripping over an extention cord strung across the sidewalk about knee level. The "best part" about it all was that after yelling at the constuction workers on-site, they claimed "It's not ours"...whatever.) I hope you are not crippled.

From Paul Petersen on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 19:02:25

Knees, groin, lower back, and foot are miraculuously fine after the tumble. My tongue still hurts from the cursing though.

From Maria on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:04:54

Paul, do you know who is the author behind articles on therunzone.com? He calls himself Tinman, but I'm sure it's not his real name. He has a very sound training philosophy and seems to be a successful coach based in Ohio. He says he is working on a book, but it's unclear when it will be published. I'm just intrigued by his mysterious personality.

From Paul Petersen on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:44:20

Maria, I want to say Tinman's first name is Dennis, but I'm not sure on that, and I definitely don't know his last name. I don't know much more than you, but agree that his training methods are sound. In fact, his theories on "slow tempos" really struck a chord in me when I realized I was essentially doing those during my college base training, and was why I could PR in the 5-k with zero speedwork back then. His other idea that he emphasizes for marathon training is "two big workouts a week." That is two quality workouts of about 90 minutes in duration, and easy running + strides the rest of the time. He backs his statements with both research findings and personal anecdotes on coaching, which is reassuring for an anonymous internet personality. I've been reading Tinman since the run-insight.com days, and there's a lot of good stuff on the old run-insight.com archive. Along with Daniels and Pfitzinger, he's the other large component that's been influencial in my training during the last two years. He used to post on letsrun.com too, but I never read that board, as it was supposedly "uncivilized" at times.

I'm looking forward to his book coming out, just to find out his name if nothing else. I think it's going to be a while though.

From Paul Petersen on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:45:18

Oops...Tinman's first name is Tom, not Dennis. And I think he's in Wisconsin.

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