Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

Week starting Jul 02, 2006

Brooks Adrenaline GTS 8 Men

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Location:

Logan,UT,

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 14:48
10K: 30:27
Half Marathon: 1:09:27
Marathon: 2:18:09 (aided), 2:22:34 (unaided)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis in June of 2008. Need to learn how to manage the disease and the treatments, and figure out what sort of training I can do with it.

I would like to spend the winter building a really strong base, and potentially try another marathon in 2009. Next big race will be the Indy Mini Marathon in May, 2009.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run another marathon...well.

Personal:

Personal Blog: Of Marathons and Maps.

1 wife, 1 kid, 1 dog.

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

Favorite Blogs:

Stacy

Miles:	This week:	25.50	Month:	46.25	Year:	46.25
Nike Air Pegasus Lifetime Miles:						455.25
Nike Elite Lifetime Miles:						430.00
Saucony Tangent Lifetime Miles:						100.00
Brooks Axiom Lifetime Miles:						293.75
Montrail Hardrock Lifetime Miles:						100.00
New Balance 780 Lifetime Miles:						50.00
Saucony Racing Flats Lifetime Miles:						5.00

Totals
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.00

Wed, Jul 05, 2006
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Quick update. We camped in Jackson Hole last weekend, which meant that I did some hiking on my foot. We did a fairly rigorous hike Saturday and an easy one on Sunday. On top of that the tape job my PT did, although it worked well, tore off a bit of skin when he took it off at my appointment Friday morning. So he deferred taping again so that the skin could heal, meaning that I had to hike around "naked". My foot definitely was pretty sore by the end of the weekend, although soaking it in the icy Gros Ventre River helped a good deal. When we got home Sunday night the LED light therapy device I had ordered was there, and I started using it that night. I've been using it 2-3 times a day on both my foot and groin, and both have had substantial improvement. Of course, this along with the other PT treatments that I do every day, bu the timing and rate of improvement has been higher than any other time span, making me think that the LED therapy is really working. This has been without tape too. Definitely an encouragement. I've been holding off doing any elliptical and have been focusing just on physical therapy exercises.
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Thu, Jul 06, 2006
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.00
20 minutes elliptical plus PT exercises. Foot and groin are making good progress.
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Sat, Jul 08, 2006
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.00
Went for bike ride.
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Totals
Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.00