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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
54.500.000.000.000.0054.50
Brooks Adrenaline 8 Blue Miles: 14.25Brooks Adrenaline 8, #1 Miles: 8.00Brooks Axiom Miles: 13.00Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 8.25
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.250.000.000.000.006.25

Did a new route today: my house out to 200N, which turns into Upper Canyon Rd., down to Canyon Rd, back into Mack Park. Then I cut through the cemetery, up to the golf course, where I found another paved trail that I didn't previously know of. Took the trail for a few blocks until it ended, and then headed home. 6:55/mile average pace.

Brooks Adrenaline 8 Blue Miles: 6.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Canal Trail. 8 miles averaging 6:15/mile. Brisk run for a brisk morning.

Brooks Adrenaline 8, #1 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Ran from work, Planet Walk - Landfill Loop, 8 miles. No watch.

Brooks Adrenaline 8 Blue Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

Did a Amalga - Benson loop. I ended up on some road that I didn't know, and went about 3 miles farther than I wanted to. Did sort of a tempo for the first 9 miles, and then cruised in. Averaged 5:59/mile for 13 miles.

Brooks Axiom Miles: 13.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.250.000.000.000.008.25

Ran up Birch Creek a little ways. Tired from yesterday. 7:12/mile average pace.

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Man, I miss the old cross country days. Just found a really old XC result from 1999. I ran 25:15 for 8K on grass...good for 71st place at an invitational. Running balls-to-the-wall in a huge pack for 8K, clawing for every spot, was just so...FUN. I don't get that anymore at road races, and I miss it. On a side note, if you look a few spots below me, note that I beat Jim Spivey by a few seconds. (Spivey coached for U of Chicago and would jump in races as an open runner...despite being over 40 and retired, he still had a kick to recon with). :-)

https://www.athlinks.com/results/78269/112376/14616961/The-Notre-Dame-Invitational-1999.aspx


Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 8.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
11.000.000.000.000.0011.00

Was feeling kind of blah today in terms of energy, so kept it a little shorter than usual. 11 miles on the canal trail and in some North Logan neighborhoods, averaged about 7:15/mile.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
54.500.000.000.000.0054.50
Brooks Adrenaline 8 Blue Miles: 14.25Brooks Adrenaline 8, #1 Miles: 8.00Brooks Axiom Miles: 13.00Brooks Adrenaline 9 Miles: 8.25
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