| 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 Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 67.50 | 5.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
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Slow, easy distance on the roads of Brazil, IN. 7:20-ish/mile.
(Triax: 237 miles) | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.00 | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.50 |
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Workout. 3-mile warmup, 5.5-mile tinman tempo, 3-minute cooldown, with 10x100m strides. Ran a nice loop near my parent's house in Brazil, IN. All miles on were small rolling hills.
| Mile |
Split |
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5:48 |
| 2 |
5:40 |
| 3 |
5:40 |
| 4 |
5:36 |
| 5 |
5:36 |
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5:39/mile pace |
It was a decent workout. The first couple didn't feel that great, but I eventually warmed up a bit. 6:12/mile average pace for the run.
(Elite: 80 miles)
Later in the morning, we all drove over to watch D-I XC nationals. My parents only live about 10 minutes away from the course, so it seemed wasteful not go. I hadn't been to a XC meet since my own national meet my senior year (7 years ago). I definitely miss the aura and electricity of nationals, and the feeling of running on grass. I bumped into Nate Long, who was there to watch his wife (Weber State). Other than that, didn't see anyone I knew. I cheered for Pat Smyth (Notre Dame, 15th place), since he is a Utah boy, and also cheered for Seth Pilkington (Weber) and the BYU teams. The Liberty kid managed to hold off the Oregon dude for a fairly exciting finish, something like 29:20 or so. It looked like Oregon beat everyone pretty bad, but I never checked the final score. NAU looked strong as well. The women's race was less exciting, as the Texas Tech girl just crushed everyone. BYU had a pretty strong spread, but no one up front. The two Weber girls looked like they did pretty well, perhaps AA. Again, I didn't check the finals, so don't know who won team-wise. Anyway, it made for a more entertaining afternoon than just sitting around my parents' house watching TV.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
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AM - easy 13 miles, 7:01/mile pace. It is very warm today, shorts and t-shirt weather. Plus, it's quite humid, so I worked up quite a sweat. Tomorrow and thereafter it's supposed to get rainy and cold, so I decided to get some good mileage in while the weather is nice. I will probably do a few more later this afternoon.
I am reviewing the Garmin Forerunner 50, which is a foot pod/HR monitor combo, with a watch interface. The foot pod was pretty accurate without any extra calibration; I was getting readings of 0.99 miles for the 1-mile county blocks, every time. My HR hovered around 140 for the run. It has been a while since I've measured my heart rate.
(Triax: 250 miles)
PM - easy 4 miles around Forest Park in Brazil, IN. By the way, there are also towns in Indiana named Peru, Alexandria, Lebanon, and Santa Claus. It is truly an exotic state, as exhibited by numerous cars up on blocks, and large plastic Christmas yard decor. 7:09/mile pace. Ave HR 139.
(Triax: 254 miles) | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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AM - slept awful last night, but I felt ready to run when my alarm went off at 7AM. I went out and had a great 9-mile run, averaging 6:38/mile. Weather here is WARM, upper 60s and very high humidity. I was dripping sweat when I finished, even though it was dark when I started out. Indiana is definitely much different than Utah.
Speaking of which, here is today's entertaining Indiana-themed story. Near where my parents live, there is a BIG yearly festival called the Covered Bridge Festival. It is a big deal, tens of thousands of people go. It is essentially a big flea market. People love it. My parents ran into a woman from China this past year, and got to talking with her. They asked her what brought her to the Covered Bridge Festival, and she replied that she was there to "learn about the American Peasant." Hilarious.
PM - I did my own study of the American Peasant this afternoon, and ran through the inner-city shanty-town known as Brazil, IN. Usually I stick to the county roads outside of town because fewer people hurl curses at me, but I decided to chance it. I think one person did tell me to 'slow the ef down', but other than that the language was clean and locals indifferent to my presence. No one threw cans of snuff at my head either, always a bonus. Pace was a little quicker, about 6:20/mile for the run (harder to get hit that way), but I felt absolutely great. About like 6:45/mile effort in Utah. Gotta love the sea level thing.
Other highlights today include going to my old high school to give a talk about geo-sciences and careers to science students, and then to the track and xc teams about running. I'm sure all the runners thought I was nuts for the mileage I do, but if I knew then what I know now, I would have been All-State rather than some 'also-ran'. Also did some Blog diplomacy, and got to talk briefly to Cassandra. Not enough hours in the day to truly catch up with folks though. It was nice to see the old school again, though, as it had been about 8 years since I had last been back.
(Elite: 94 miles)
Oh, here's an interesting article about another Devine Racing mess:
http://www.thefinalsprint.com/2007/11/nearly-one-year-later-las-vegas-marathon-champions-have-not-been-paid/ | | Comments(6) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
The weather front finally crashed in, and temps dropped to the 30s, bringing wind and snow flurries. After a warm week, not the most fun run this morning, but I got it in. Fought a head wind the whole way back. 6:54/mile average pace.
(Triax: 263 miles) | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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Easy 9 miles in Indianapolis.7:08/mile pace. Fly home today.
(Triax: 272 miles)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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Workout. I did a fartlek with 5x4-minutes @ LT, with 2 minutes recovery on the Young Ward-ICON Loop. Warmed up for about 4 miles at 6:35/mile pace (good sign), then started the workout at the turnoff to Young Ward. | Interval | Distance (miles)
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| | 1 | 0.77 | 5:11/mile | | 2 | 0.78
| 5:10/mile | | 3 | 0.77 | 5:13/mile | | 4 | 0.75 | 5:23/mile | | 5 | 0.77 | 5:11/mile |
The first two intervals felt pretty good, but I think all the flying, driving, and holiday festivities of the past week took a bit out of me. I don't know what happened on the 4th interval, but the last interval went well. (Elite: 106 miles) In other news, I got my Houston entry and plane ticket squared away. I'm starting to get pretty excited for that. I'm thinking sub-1:06 should be possible.
Also, for those interested in getting cabins for the Moab Half, David has reserved a cabin for 6, and it is already full (me, Stacy, Dave, Cody, Beth, (kids??), Aaron). However, Dave inquired if there are any more open cabins, and there ARE. If you are interested in reserving a cabin, contact the Pack Creek Ranch. They are very nice cabins/houses in the La Salle Mnts. Rates are reasonable. There is a hot tub. It would be cool to have a cluster of FRB cabins. We can be like a cult or something. We just need more people and guns.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 67.50 | 5.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 77.00 |
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