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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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Race: Greencastle 4-miler (4 Miles) 00:23:06, Place overall: 1
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Typing this on a tablet, so will be brief. Ran a local 4-mile race today in Greencastle, which is about 25 miles from where my parents live, and also near where I grew up in Indiana. The current Wabash College coach, Roger Busch had tipped me off about this race, and we both agreed to use it as a way to get together and meet up.

Drove out to Greencastle with my mom, registered, warmed up, and met Roger. Not too hot this morning but extremely humid, so humid you could see the air. The race was at the Depauw Nature Center, which had many great trails along a river, and above and through an old quarry. Really cool place, I'll have to come back here to do some runs next time I'm in town (way better than running in Brazil, IN). The whole race was on rolling trails of packed dirt and gravel, a really great running surface.

The race had about 100 runners, no chip timing, and the old-school "thumbtack-and-posterboard" results table. Very cool. I was just hoping for a fun run and a good workout.

And that's what I got. The race started and Roger, myself, and another local runner took off. Roger and I chatted for most the race, and the other guy dropped back a few seconds after about 3 miles. Near the end, I glanced at my garmin and realized the race was almost over and said we should pick it up a little, which we did for the last quarter mile or so.

I ended up winning by about a second, although I suspect Roger let me pull ahead. In any case, I ended up giving my $50 gift certificate for a shoe store in Broad Ripple to him and his girlfriend, since I will not be going to Broad Ripple any time soon. Final time was 23:06.

It was a fun race, a true local race, which is a dwindling or dying breed. And I also one a pound of organic coffee from a local store in the raffle, perfect! Good way to spend my Saturday morning, our last day here in Indiana. We fly back to Utah tomorrow, and I will be glad to be back, to mountains and low humidity. And will get back to real training. Hopefully this 29-mile week will not derail me too much. Not that it matters. 

Brooks Launch (3) Miles: 12.00
Comments
From Rob Murphy on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 16:59:37 from 98.202.141.17

Cool story. Roger told me you guys were going to get together this week and it sounds like it worked out well.

You didn't drive anywhere with him did you?

From Paul on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 17:01:53 from 50.104.175.4

No, we just ran.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 17:13:46 from 98.202.141.17

You're supposed to say "No. Why do you ask"?

Then I would have told you about how I rode with him into Manhattan to run in Central Park and about how his driving kept my heart rate at about 180 the whole way - which I suppose added to the quality of my workout.

From Jon on Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:09:30 from 98.71.138.170

Nice, relaxing race. Sounds like a good recovery week.

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