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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
61.750.000.000.000.0061.75
Brooks Axiom Miles: 9.00Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 34.00Saucony Tangent Miles: 9.75Brooks Launch Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Out-and-back on Canyon Rd, 9 miles total. Did 6 hill charges up the dugway near the end of the run. Averaged 6:50/mile for the run.

Brooks Axiom Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.000.000.000.009.50

North Logan - Hyde Park Loop. 6:54/mile average pace.

Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 9.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.750.000.000.000.009.75

Did a tempo on the First Dam Run 10K course, followed by 8x30 hill charges on the Boulevard. Gray and snowy today, although nothing was sticking to the roads yet. But it was a less than inspiring day to run, and kind of a "bleh" workout. Tempo splits were 6:05, 6:03, 6:04, 5:49, 5:47, 5:40. Average pace for the entire run was 6:17/mile.

Saucony Tangent Miles: 9.75
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.500.000.000.000.008.50

Ran from work. Planet Walk - Landfill Loop. 8 miles, right around 7-minute pace.

Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 8.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Out-and-back up Smithfield Canyon. Did a little bit of a progression run. Average pace was 6:31/mile for 9 miles.

Brooks Launch Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
16.000.000.000.000.0016.00

Did a loop out west and north of Smithfield. Very rural and nice, with a few really soft dirt roads. I probably saw about 3 cars the entire. It was absolutely gorgeous out today, and I just let my body take me at the pace it wanted to go. And apparently my body wanted to go fast. Splits were 6:20, 6:30, 6:22, 6:11, 6:26, 6:01, 5:58, 5:59, 6:06, 5:55, 5:51, 6:06, 5:56, 5:53, 5:58, 6:35. 6:07/mile average for 16 miles. For a while, 6-minute pace was feel pretty darn comfortable, but I was working hard during the last few miles, especially since they were a gradual uphill. The final mile (which is a big uphill) about killed me.

Great day to be alive.

Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 16.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
61.750.000.000.000.0061.75
Brooks Axiom Miles: 9.00Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 34.00Saucony Tangent Miles: 9.75Brooks Launch Miles: 9.00
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