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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 14, 2009

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

Brr...way too cold out in the morning to run. I elected instead to sip coffee all morning, listen to Dave Ramsey podcasts, and make race course maps, which is sadly my ideal Saturday morning (by the way, check out the Canyonlands Half website for one of my latest projects). I had also thought about running the Shamrock Shuffle 5K in Smithfield this morning, enticed by the $5 $4 entry fee (get $1 off for wearing green), but Gil already had a vet appointment, which filled my quota for scheduled activities on a Saturday morning. Plus the whole "too cold" thing I mentioned earlier.

Anyway, I finally got out for a run around 2:30PM, and it was much nicer out, although still too cold for my liking. I ran the Millville Hill Loop, and old favorite. I was feeling good, mostly likely due to the Enbrel plus sipping coffee all morning, and averaged 6:25/mile for the 13-mile run. I never got much under 6:00/mile for any given stretch, even the downhill miles, but just kept a steady pace the whole way. Good run.

Brooks Adrenaline 8, #1 Miles: 13.00

Comments

From redrooster on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 22:10:02 from 71.219.142.244

Paul- I am going to try the elliptical at USU this week. Any advice on how fast, what resistance etc? I have never used one before. Any target mph or anything I should know about?

Another question- they videotaped my running stride at PT. As I knew, I have a neutral landing, but with my high rigid arches I tend to roll out (supinate), and also my foot lands outward which is bad, putting hte stress on my foot causing problems. Anyway, the guy I talked to mentioned stride length- they measure the stride length by angle of legs to hip or something- and he said my stride length was too short. But I was on the TM at 7.5 mph, and at slow speeds like that I follow Jack Daniel's advice that you try to keep your leg turnover rate at about a constant 180 turnovers per minute. At higher speeds my stride increases, but I thought at easy pace you were supposed to keep the turnovers quick, which requires a shorter pace, right? The PT guy didn't agree with me, he thought my slow speed stride should be longer. But how can you have a longer stride and maintain quick leg turnover? What's you opinion on this, or anyone else??

From David on Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 23:55:01 from 24.19.99.70

I thought the ideal Saturday morning was eight hours of an NFL draft, but whatever. Yours was pretty good too, even though bacon wasn't mentioned.

From paul on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:58:27 from 75.162.221.204

David - oh, there was bacon indeed.

Red - every elliptical is different, so speed and resistance numbers don't mean much. Usually I just try to go for effort, so if I want to simulate a normal run, I'll go for that feeling, if I want a "tempo" run, I'll try to hit that exertion level on the elliptical, etc. Hitting 85-95 RPMs is a good idea, I figure, since that's closest to running. Regarding stride length and your conversation with the PT, I don't have much opinion or knowledge base on the topic, other than that trying to change your stride is easier said that done. Plus, running on a treadmill is unnatural to begin with, so the PT is not seeing your real stride anyway.

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