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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, Apr 25, 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

Stayed over night at the Touch of Paradise camp for a valley-wide church men's retreat. I got a short 6-mile run in before breakfast. Ran from the camp up into Paradise, and onto the WBR course for a while. After breakfast, I had a little bit more time, so I went the other direction, crossed the Little Bear River, and headed up into the hills. And up and up and up. I had to turn back at 3.5 miles (for 7 miles total), but I have a feeling the route would have taken me to Sardine Canyon or somewhere like that. It was very beautiful too, and less steep than Avon Pass. I'll have to come back sometime and run the whole road when I have more time.

Brooks Adrenaline 8, #1 Miles: 13.00

Comments

From MichelleL on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 20:54:08 from 67.41.191.143

Sounds lovely. Muddy shoes?

From Jon on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 21:24:58 from 75.169.158.51

Is it a dirt road?

By the way, Allie Scott (2008 TOU winner) is moving to Logan in the fall- MBA at USU. Another member of the Logan FRB chapter.

From paul on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 22:40:13 from 75.162.111.52

Michelle - no, I beat the snow.

Jon - good scoop. It's like a trade for Lisa.

Yes, it was a dirt road. Here's a google map link to where I was. I ran on Mt. Pisgah Rd / Baxter Hollow. Looks like if I had kept going, I would have come down near Dry Lake. Or one could keep going south all the way to Mantua. We should do some runs out there later this spring and summer. It was a nice road, no one out there either. It's so pretty out there.

From Jon on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 23:34:43 from 75.169.158.51

Sounds good to me. I'm always up for new areas, esp. where there is no traffic. I found it on google maps.

Yeah, that was my thought, too- trade for Lisa.

From paul on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 23:41:00 from 75.162.111.52

How did Denver do in the draft. Packers are rocking and rolling...good defensive picks for them.

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