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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, May 10, 2006

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

No running. My foot was quite sore when I woke up, first time in quite a while were it hasn't either progressed or stayed the same. Apparently 1 mile at 9 min pace on grass was too much yesterday. Predictably, it was feeling pretty good by afternoon. My wife and I took half the day off and went down to Ogden to get the Suburu serviced (half the population of Logan owns a Suburu -- why no dealer in Logan??), and we did a hike up Ogden Canyon while we were waiting. My foot felt great for that, and it was good to be outside on such a beautiful day and get any sort of exercise.

Did hour worth of stretches and core exercises at night.

Ailment ratings:

SI Joint: 8 -- better

lower back: 5 -- very stiff in morning; isolated to left side later in day

knee: 7.5 -- no pain during normal activity, but feels weaker

Plantar Fasciitis: 5 -- worst it's felt in over a week during morning; not limping by evening

Comments

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:55:18

Paul - looks like the lay-off is not much different for you than just running through it. Is it just my perception, or do you really think it is the case?

I can see how a lay-off could make an injury worse. If you run through an injury, you damage the hurt part more, but at the same time you are building workaround muscles. Then they get strong, and the injured part eventually heals. If you cross-train and run less, you might be strengthening the wrong muscles. And each time you run, you hit the early stage of pain where you put on the burden on the injured part, but the workaround muscles are weak and do not get a chance to develop, so you just keep reinjuring the injured part.

At least in my experience, I have been able to run through all of my injuries. The idea is run through pain while you can. I've had injuries when I walked with a limp all day long, but could run once I got warmed up, and I did. Felt like crying for the first two miles running 9:00-10:00 pace, then the endorphines would kick in. In doing so, never got myself in serious trouble like you would expect. Pure luck? Or maybe my crazy theory has some merit?

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:57:03

run less above should read run occasionally

From Paul Petersen on Thu, May 11, 2006 at 19:42:58

Not sure if your theory would be approved by an exercise scientist...although your overall point is well-taken. In actuality, my knee has improved substantially since the layoff. My SI join has also consistently been better. The rest of my lower back, though, has gotten worse. I can't imagine it would be any worse if I had been running. Plantar fasciits simply takes time to heal, although I can probably begin running on it as long as I am careful. The layoff is as much for my knee as for the PF. I ran through the same problem all last summer and most of this spring, and although I had some very good races, it does impact my stride and training, so looking at the "big picture," I'm willing to sacrifice my summer to potentially race better in the fall.

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, May 11, 2006 at 22:13:00

With your current lower back pain, you are a wanted subject for a study. See the details in my blog. Maybe it is the same study that your physical therapist has been talking about.

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