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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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Wed, Apr 12, 2006

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
7.00	5.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.00

6 miles easy running; 6 miles elliptical, 5 of which were at "mp" effort.

I originally wanted to just run today, but my knee was fairly sore, so I kept the running down and hopped on the elliptical instead. The good news is that my back has been feeling pretty good the last couple days, and also my weight has finally dipped below 140. If good for nothing else, the elliptical helps shed pounds. My clothes are noticeably looser.

I'm trying to pin down what sort of heart rate I need on the elliptical to get a threshold or a marathon pace workout. I assumed that my threshold HR would be 175-180 and my marathon HR would be 160-170. I decided one way to figure it out would be to look at my HR records from races over the last three years (yes, I wear a monitor when I race). Here's the breakdown of AVERAGE HR:

Marathons:

Ogden (05): 173

Park City (05): 170

Des News (05): 168

TOU (03): 178

TOU (04): 179

TOU (05): 170

St. George (05): 179

Typically for these marathons my HR started near 150 and drifted up to the 190s by the end of the race. I'm going to say that my MP heartrate for elliptical workouts is 170-175.

Half Marathons

Moab (04): 186 (hot that year)

Moab (05): 184

Great Salt Lake (03): 182

Great Salt Lake (04): 180

Surprisingly, not a ton different from my MP heartrate. Actually, not a whole lot surprising in some ways, since my half pace is about the same as my marathon pace. I'll put my threshold HR at 180-185.

10k

SLC Classic (03): 186

SLC Classic (04): 184

Des News (03): 183

Ogden NUTS (06): 185

Not at all different from half marathon.

Draper (03): 183

Draper (04): 183

Heart of Holladay (03): 184

Not at all different from half marathon or 10k. VO2Max HR? I suppose over 190...

Looking back, I've recorded max HR's of over 200 for all distances, from 5k through marathon.

Comments

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:50:52

Paul - I do not put too much weight on the heart rate readings. They are too temperature and hydration dependent. Rather, to determine if it is MP, threshhold, or VO2 Max, I ask myself how long I feel I could continue at that pace. However, you seem to be more consistent in your HR.

From Paul Petersen on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 15:22:09

The point you make it quite true, but I feel that it's the best thing I have to go on for training on the elliptical. One thing about the elliptical is that it's a very controlled environment: no hills, same temperature every time. So HR should be a meaningful method to measure my workout.

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