Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

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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

Tue, Aug 25, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
2.00	12.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.00

Young Ward - ICON Loop (the long way). Averaged 5:50/mile for 12 miles, then cooled down for two miles at 6:30/mile.

Nike Elite Miles: 14.00

Comments

From Ashbaker on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:27:56 from 98.98.27.230

Nice solid run Paul.

From Superfly on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 13:31:17 from 208.117.127.110

Looking strong all the time...

When do you move?

From paul on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 13:37:40 from 76.27.122.123

We'll either move during Labor Day weekend, or immediately after. Depends if we can get the buyer to move up our closing date, and that of course depends on their lender.

From Superfly on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 13:57:13 from 208.117.127.110

Closing can always be a hang up... well most of the time it is. But when we bought this new house it was a week and a half from the day we made the offer to the bank and the day we closed. Crazy fast! Hopefully it will all go smooth for you guys. How's the new place? We are excited for ya.

From Dustin on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:01:11 from 204.113.48.77

Exciting news about the house hope the closing goes good.

From paul on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:10:20 from 76.27.122.123

Yeah, if we didn't have to sell our old place, I'm sure we could have closed in a couple weeks. The new place we are moving into is a foreclosure, so there is no one living there, which makes things easier on that end. But the people buying our home our first-time home-buyers with no money, so I think their loan takes a lot longer to underwrite than ours, since we have a "rich" credit history and 6 years of equity. But with less than two weeks to go, everything still looks very good on both ends.

Our new house will be nothing special. It's just a big box to put our stuff in, and to lay our heads, but it is in the town we want to be in, and has a good location. It will be a good place to raise a family over the next 18-20 years, and over time we will update it to "make it our own". Right now it's pretty bland. We like old houses and this one is pretty new. Looks like every other newer home.

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