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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
54.508.750.000.000.0063.25
Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 18.00Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00Saucony Guide TR Miles: 9.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 9.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 12.25
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Forrester Acres plus some random mileage. It rained off and on the whole run. Averaged 6:50/mile for 9 miles.

Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.258.750.000.000.0015.00

Big Workout today. Kind of a mixed bag. The first 3/4 of the workout was really good, and the last bit fell apart, and I ended up cutting it short by a little. I think it was a combination of warmer temps + hitting my early intervals a bit too fast, and the combination did me in.

The workout was 4-3-2-1 at MP, with 2-3 minutes recovery jog. The 4-mile set was 5:17, 5:16, 5:22, 5:22. The 3-mile set was 5:19, 5:16, 5:19. Was still feeling pretty good. Then the 2-mile set I hit the first mile in 5:11 (with a slight tailwind), then turned to go uphill and into crosswind and just lost it. My pace was slowing pretty rapidly, so I bailed abut 0.75 into the last mile of the set (5:28-pace), and then skipped the last mile interval. I think if I had either backed off my pace to 5:25/mile in the early miles, or had ran earlier in the day (rather than at noon), I probably would have been okay. Oh well, still a decent workout. Live and learn. But it's too close to Utah Valley to go into the tank for a workout.

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Ran the Logan River Trail past Spring Hollow and back. About 9 miles. Very nice, warm day.

Saucony Guide TR Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Ran with Carson, canal trail. 9 miles, averaged about 7:25/mile.

Asic DS Trainer Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Smithfield Canyon, 9 miles, 6:50/mile average.

Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.250.000.000.000.0012.25

Ran with Jeff Shadley this morning, who was in town for his wife's bike century event. We ran the Logan River Trail, about 10 miles. I ran a couple more miles afterward, but ended up cutting short, as I just didn't feel like running long today. 12.25 miles total.

Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 12.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
54.508.750.000.000.0063.25
Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 18.00Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00Saucony Guide TR Miles: 9.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 9.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 12.25
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