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Colorado Run Half Marathon

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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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Neighborhood Loop, 3.5 miles, easy.

Brooks PureConnect Miles: 3.50
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Race: Colorado Run Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:11:02, Place overall: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.907.006.100.000.0016.00

Did tye Co.orado Run Half Marathon this morning. This was a pretty low-key event with a few hundred people. Point-to-point course with about 150ft net elevation drop...but lots of rolling hills and sharp turns made for a fair, if not slow, course. Treated this like a paid tempo run, and cruised at a medium to hard effort to take first (and $200) by about 5 minutes. Splits were 5:03, 5:27, 5:30, 5:33, 5:15, 5:23, 5:46, 10:32 (2 miles), 5:28, 5:19, 5:43, 5:23, 35s.

 

 

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Took it easy today, 6 miles on the Power/Spring Creek Trail during noon hour. Garmin died midway, but I was doing about 7:30-pace.

Brooks Launch White Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

am - Loveland Trail toward Walmart. 8 miles, averaged 8:05/mile

noon - Power Trail to Spring Creek trail, east. 6 miles, averaged 7:15/mile

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 6.00Mizuno Wave Sayanora Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

am - fossil creek to mason. 8 miles, averaged 7:34/mile.

noon - Power trail, 6 miles

Brooks PureConnect Miles: 6.00Brooks Launch White Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

am - some route, don't remember. 8 miles, averaged 7:25/mile

noon - Power Trail to Spring Creek Trail. 6 miles, no watch

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 6.00Brooks PureConnect Black Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.007.000.000.000.0020.00

Boyd Lake, 20 miles. Tried to do a 4-3-2-1 workout, but bailed after the 3-mile segment. Calves and achilles were protesting the whole time, and I wasn't hitting target paces, so I thought that was my body's way of telling me to pull the plug. Tempo splits were (5:27, 5:29, 5:35, 5:29), and then (5:41, 5:32, 5:29). Averaged 6:50/mile for the 20 miles (but last 7 miles were about 8-minute pace). Blah.

Mizuno Wave Sayanora Miles: 20.00
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67.4014.006.100.000.0087.50
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