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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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Brooks Pure Connect Blue Lifetime Miles: 337.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
81.255.002.000.000.0088.25
Saucony Guide TR Miles: 27.75Brooks Adrenaline 10 Green Miles: 15.25Saucony Kinvara Miles: 17.00Saucony Type A Miles: 10.75Brooks Launch Miles: 8.50New Balance 790 Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.500.000.000.000.0014.50

AM - Canal Trail. 7:24/mile for 8.25 miles. Felt kind of bleh, but I guess I did race on Saturday. I'm not sore at all, though.

PM - Forrester Acres with some strides in the grass. 6.25 miles, no watch.

Saucony Guide TR Miles: 8.25Brooks Adrenaline 10 Green Miles: 6.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.005.000.000.000.0012.00

Ran up Smithfield Canyon for 6 miles. Averaged 6:10/mile going up. Then averaged around 5:20/mile going down, once I hit the pavement again. 5:49/mile average for 12 miles. It was a beautiful morning, and I felt good. Probably felt better than during my race on Saturday. 

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 12.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.250.000.000.000.0014.25

AM - Birch Creek Canyon with Carson. 8.5 miles, slow.

PM - Forrester Acres with Seth. No watch. 5.75 miles.

Saucony Type A Miles: 5.75Brooks Launch Miles: 8.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - Smithfield Canyon with Carson. 7:14/mile average for 9 miles.

PM - Planet Walk with Seth. 5 miles, no watch.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 Green Miles: 9.00Saucony Kinvara Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.002.000.000.0014.00

Kind of a weird workout today. I ran down to Skyview track to do mile repeats, and found that every gate was locked. Seriously? Heaven forbid someone does a track workout. Anyway, I circumnavigated the whole facility, and finally found a breach: I was able to army-crawl under the fence in one spot. Sometimes it pays to be extremely skinny, as normal person certainly could not have done this. Then I started the mile repeats. The workout was supposed to be 6x1600m with 200m recovery (60 seconds) at threshold pace (about 5:10/mile). I did the first one in 5:16. The second one felt quite a bit easier, and was 5:11. But by then some kids camp was flooding the track, so I decided to leave. Plus, I was really needing a potty stop. So I ran back home, used the facilities, changed to my NB 790s, and then hit the canal trail. Ran most of it at a brisk pace, and did some intermittent strides throughout the run. Averaged 6:30/mile for this 9-mile segment. Got 14 miles this morning total. Not quite the workout I wanted, but it could have been worse.

New Balance 790 Miles: 9.00Saucony Type A Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
19.500.000.000.000.0019.50

Long trail run today, I ran the High Creek - Cherry Creek loop with Jon. I guess this is a "short" trail run for Jon, but 20 miles and 4 hours is the longest I've run in quite some time. Jon came over to my house at 5:30AM, and then we piled in my car and headed out to Richmond (about 6 miles north of Smithfield). Parked at a big pullout along Cherry Creek, and then started the run on the dirt road (5200' elevation), which changed to paved as we headed north toward High Creek. This was the road segment that would make the route a "loop", rather than a shuttle. Not especially fun, but the road is actually very pretty to run on, and I thought it would be good to get this part done with at the very beginning while it's cool, rather than at the end of the run, when our legs are beaten up, feet hurting, and the the temperatures baking.

After about 3 miles we got onto the High Creek dirt road, and headed up the canyon. After a couple miles of that, we finally got to the trailhead and started the "real run". High Creek is a beautiful canyon, and the trail is in great shape. Lots of foot bridges at creek crossings, so we didn't even have to get our feet wet. It's a nice wooded single-track for a couple miles, and then it opens up to a gorgeous alpine meadow. Wildflowers were blooming everywhere, and everything was green. Once we were in the meadow (at about 6500'), we could see Cherry Peak, and big vertical cliffs everywhere, about 750' of sheer rock in some places. It feels more like Colorado or Wyoming Rockies more than Utah. There are also waterfalls dropping down the cliffs in several places.

The trail kept climbing, but was runnable. Eventually it got very steep, though, and we hiked most of the rest of the way up to High Creek Lake, which is a little cirque lake at the top of the canyon, near the ridge. The lake just pops up out of nowhere, and it very peaceful and beautiful. Not a ripple to be seen in the water, and the cliffs reflected perfectly off the surface. We could look down off the cirque to the meadow below, and it's a beautiful site.

We took a food break at the lake, and pitifully attempted to skip a few stones, and then continued on. From the lake at 8800', we climbed a few hundred feet to the saddle, and then ran just below the ridge, behind Cherry Peak. We had great views from there, including Naomi Peak (highest peak in the Bear River Range), and Smithfield Canyon. It was very green too. We ran along the ridge for a couple miles, which was fairly slow going due to rockiness and undulating terrain.

We finally topped out right at 9400' at the final pass, where we could see down into City Creek Canyon, and also had great views of Cache Valley, the Wellsvilles, and even Logan Peak (the radio antennas give it away). Finally, we started our rapid descent into the Cherry Creek drainage. We dropped about 1500' in probably about a mile, and it was pretty slow going for me. Jon got out a bit ahead of me. Eventually we dropped into a small meadow, and the trail got a little less steep, but still rough going.

Eventually we made it along Cherry Creek, and it was nice and shady, and the trail became less rocky and more packed dirt, which was nice. Plus there was a woman out there (the only person we saw on the Cherry Creek trail) who was doing trail maintenance and clipping overgrown vegetation. She did a great job, and our last mile or two were really smooth. Several creek crossings in here, but I just plowed through the water, since that is more fun, plus were were almost done. We finally made it off the single track, and then ran downhill on the dirt road for about another mile. Made it back to my car to complete the loop, 19.6 miles in just barely over 4 hours. Averaged 12:20/mile, or something stupid like that. It was fun to do a scenic trail run as a change of pace, so to speak. It was a beautiful day, and a good run.

Saucony Guide TR Miles: 19.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
81.255.002.000.000.0088.25
Saucony Guide TR Miles: 27.75Brooks Adrenaline 10 Green Miles: 15.25Saucony Kinvara Miles: 17.00Saucony Type A Miles: 10.75Brooks Launch Miles: 8.50New Balance 790 Miles: 9.00
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