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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
204.000.0016.502.500.00223.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.500.000.000.000.007.50

back to training. Easy distance; ave HR 119

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

easy distance; ave HR 126

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.500.000.000.000.009.50

easy distance; ave HR 138

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
15.000.000.000.000.0015.00

Great trail run today. Parked at First Dam, ran through Hugie Hydro Park and jumped on old canal access road that goes above the highway. The trail spits out near Second Dam, where we crossed the highway and jumped on the River Trail and took it to its terminus at Guinevah Malibu campground. Crossed the highway and to the Wind Cave trailhead, and took the Wind Cave Trail up as far as it went, and then bushwacked the rest of the way up the ridge. We found out later there's a real trail that could have taken us to the same place, but oh well. From the top of the ridge, we linked into the Birdeneau Trail and ran down into Green Canyon. Got to the bottom of Green Canyon and took the forest road out of the canyon, and then got the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and ran south back to First Dam and our car. Been wanting to do that one for a while. What a great loop! Ave HR 139

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.000.000.004.50

easy distance

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.500.000.000.000.007.50

easy distance; ave HR 128

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

easy distance, 6x100m strides; ave HR 133

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

easy distance; ave HR 127

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.500.000.000.000.0014.50

Yet another awesome trail run: Birch Canyon - Smithfield Dry Canyon Loop. I love trail loops. We parked near Birch Canyon, and ran up Birch. The first half of the canyon is pretty, but ordinary. After a few miles, though, the canyon veers hard to the south and opens up into an amazing bowl. Very "Rocky Mountains". (You wouldn't know that Preston, ID is so close). Wildflowers everwhere. Just gorgeous. At the south end of the canyon is a 2000' sheer rock face. This is why I live in Utah. We climb out of the canyon on west side (no sheer cliff there), and the trail was surprising easy. Once on top (about 9000') we were treated to great views of Cache Valley, and the Bear River Range behind us. We ran along the ridge for less than a mile, and then dove back down into Smithfield Dry Canyon. Bushwacked for a while and then finally found the trail. Smithfield Dry was nice, and had some cool features and rock outcrops, but we were ready to be done by then, and just tried to get out as fast as we could without tripping to too much. Got to the road finally, and ran back to our car in the heat.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

River Trail. Ave HR 155

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
11.500.000.000.000.0011.50

AM - 7 miles; ave HR 131

PM - 4.5

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

easy distance; ave HR 126

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

easy distance

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Race: Wild West Relay (193 Miles) 22:30:20, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.000.0016.500.000.0017.50

I'm sucker for relays now. Wild West Relay. The relay starts in Fort Collins and ends in Steamboat Springs. Fantastic course, fantastic organization. Highly recommended. I ran Legs 4, 16, and 28. I ran on the "No Small Feet" team again, who I met and ran with for the Wasatch Back Relay a couple months earlier. What I love about running is the people that you meet and friends that you establish. 12:20PM - Leg 4, 5.5 mile. This leg was outside of Ft. Collins and was pretty flat and easy. However, it was in the heat of the day. Also, I missed a turn and ran an extra mile, which is embarassing because I made the course map. Zoned out I guess. Fortunately the van found me and picked me up and brought me back to where I went off the course (a legal relay manuever). I ended up with a time of 35:55, 6:31 pace for the official leg, but 5:30 pace for the actually mileage I ran. I'm pretty happy with that for the heat. However, I cost my team 12 minutes, and felt really bad about that. I told them I would make it up my next leg. Ave HR 179 7:35PM - Leg 16, 10.6 miles. I wore my GPS this leg in order to ensure not getting lost and get mile splits. This part of the race is at high elevation, and my leg started at 9000' and dropped to 7900' by mile 8, and was rolling for the last 3 miles. I took mile splits with my GPS: 9:50/175 - 2-mile (4:55 pace). Steep downhill 5:25/179 - feeling great! 5:24/178 5:33/184 5:52/183 - road is flattening out, loosing speed, but still feel good 5:48/184 - starting to get dark 5:52/184 6:29/186 - uphill segment 6:29/186 - long mile, according to GPS and my body Great leg! I made up my lost time from Leg 4. Felt really good. Total time 56:40; ave HR 181

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Race: Wild West Relay (193 Miles) 22:30:20, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.500.000.002.500.003.00

Wild West Relay. Leg 28. 4:30AM. I was fairly tired from the previous two legs, but the cold North Park air plus knowing the leg was only 2.5 miles refreshed me enough to give this last leg a go. The leg is short, flat, and on fast blacktop. No turns and pitch black except for the moon. Just point my body forward and run as fast as I can. The leg went by really fast, and nothing really to speak of (typical for running in the dark). Total time was 12:46 (5:06/mile). I was suprised by this pace, as I didn't think I could run that fast fresh, and especially not after two relay legs and no sleep. Weird things happen late at night. Our team won by several hours, and we passed the entire field. It was a fun race and I met some more good people.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.500.000.000.000.004.50

easy distance; ave HR 134

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.500.000.000.000.0013.50

AM - easy 7.5 miles; ave HR 120

PM - easy 6 miles

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

easy distance; ave HR 152

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
10.000.000.000.000.0010.00

easy distance; ave HR 130

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
23.000.000.000.000.0023.00

long run from TOU start (Hardware Ranch), along TOU course, to my house. Pace was slow, over 8:30/mile. AVe HR 137

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

This is the summer of great trail loops. Today was the Beaver Creek - Sink Hollow loop. More spectacular country. My stupid black lab (who doesn't retrieve) decided that he is actually a herder, and starting herding a pack of free range cattle before I could get a leash on him. The cattle had nowhere to go, with the creek on one side and the hillside on the other, so we ended up running behind the stinking, pooping cattle for over two miles before they finally veered off. It made me consider vegetarianism, if just to get rid of cattle on our Forest land. Other than that, great run. Ave HR 140.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.500.000.000.000.008.50

easy distance with 6x100m strides; ave HR 122

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
204.000.0016.502.500.00223.00
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