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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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Saucony Trail Shoe Lifetime Miles: 247.50
Hoka Clifton Lifetime Miles: 491.50
Saucony Type A6 Lifetime Miles: 186.50
Saucony Zealot Lifetime Miles: 478.75
Saucony Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles: 433.50
Saucony Kinvara 6-2 Lifetime Miles: 358.75
Brooks Pure Connect Blue Lifetime Miles: 337.25
New Balance Trainers Lifetime Miles: 314.50
New Balance 1400 Racers Lifetime Miles: 65.00
Brook Pureflow Lifetime Miles: 99.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
84.006.000.000.000.0090.00
Brooks Launch Miles: 6.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 34.00Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 17.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 11.00Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00New Balance 790 Miles: 7.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - Smithfield Canyon, 8 miles, 6:56/mile. Glorious day, wore shorts and a t-shirt. After rest, icing, and NSAIDs all weekend, my shin/ankle had calmed down and I couldn't feel any pain, so I gave it a go this morning. Everything felt fine until I got just a little pain during the last mile. Will continue with ice and anti-inflammitories, and take it easy, will see what happens.

PM - Forrester Acres with Seth. 6 miles, no watch. Tendon felt okay.

Brooks Launch Miles: 6.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - out-and-back to north end of Smithfield. 8 miles, 6:50/mile average. Another day for shorts and a t-shirt, even nicer than yesterday.

PM - Forrester Acres with Seth, 6 miles.

Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 8.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
9.006.000.000.000.0015.00

Big Workout. It was warm again today, but insanely windy. I wanted to do tempo intervals as a big workout, but it didn't go as planned. Still an okay workout, plus I got all the mileage in, which is important. Warmed up at a brisk pace (6:20-6:30) for two miles, then did a 4-mile tempo. Splits were about 5:20, 5:50 (into the wind), 5:15, 5:15 (with the wind). Jogged a 3-minute recovery, and then did another two miles, about 5:20-low and then a 5:30. The windy was really bugging me, and I was about to turn to go straight into it (had been a cross-wind for the past two miles), so I cut it short. While going straight into the wind, I could barely sustain 7:30 pace. Once I got the cross-wind again, I kept it brisk, around 6:30-6:40 for the last few miles. Averaged 6:25/mile for the 15-mile run. So not a waste of time, but not what I wanted either. Other than the half marathon race, all of my sustained workouts (non-intervals) have been sub-par.

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

AM - lots of new snow, but not too cold so the roads were fairly melted. Smithfield Canyon, 7 miles, 7:25/mile average.

PM - 6 miles, 7:20/mile average.

New Balance 790 Miles: 7.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

AM - North Logan out-and-back. 9 miles, 7:24/mile.

PM - ran to the bank and then looped around Smithfield. 5 miles, 7:15/mile average.

Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 9.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
20.000.000.000.000.0020.00

Drove out to Hollow Rd, and ran up Blacksmith Fork 10 miles, and back. Had a slight canyon wind the entire way up, but that just meant I had a tailwind for the downhill portion. Pretty good run, averaged about 6:25/mile going up the canyon, and maybe about 5:40/mile going down. 2:01 for the entire 20 miles, 6:04/mile average. Definitely ran out of gas the last three miles, but I needed to get a run like that in.

Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 20.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
84.006.000.000.000.0090.00
Brooks Launch Miles: 6.00Brooks Launch (2) Miles: 34.00Asics Heavy Shoe Miles: 17.00Asic DS Trainer Miles: 11.00Saucony Kinvara Miles: 15.00New Balance 790 Miles: 7.00
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