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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

Sat, Mar 25, 2006

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
14.00	4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	18.00

18-mile long run today. I tried to keep the pace strong throughout, and did about 4 miles at marathon effort on the hilly Bonneville trail in the middle of the run. This was the longest run of my year so far, and felt great. I was a little bit tight at first, but really loosened up as run went on.

I had what I think is a major breakthrough with my knee last night. I stretched my hamstrings long and hard, more than I ever have before, and my knee went from being pretty stiff and sore to feeling quite good. My lower back felt quite a bit better too. This morning I got up and my knee was pretty sore again, but I did some good hamstring stretching before and during my long run, and it ended up feeling pretty good by the end of the run and my biomechanics felt fluid. The test will be to see how it feels tomorrow in recovery from my long run.

One more note of interest: this is my first week over 70 miles since August 2004. I never got over 65 last year.

Comments

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 16:42:03

That is good news.

Interestingly enough, you ran better marathon with 65 miles a week in 2005 that you did in 2004 with 100. However, to make any meaningful observations, we need to look at the logs for the entire year. If you can export your old logs into CSV or Excel, I can try to figure out a way to upload them here.

From Paul Petersen on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 21:53:53

I can't convert them to CSV or Excel easily, but I've bundled my HR monitor files (which contain my old logs) in a zip and emailed them to you. You can then download a trial version of the Polar software to view my last 3 years of training. Check your email.

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