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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
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

Sat, Jul 26, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
11.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.00

Ran we Jon this morning. He was doing a long run, so I went from my house to up the River Trail a little ways, and then turned back. 11 miles total, my longest run since December. We fought a canyon wind on the way up (plus the uphill), but I got moving a little bit on the way down, and hit my last 5 miles in 6:44, 6:33, 6:28, 6:28, and 6:20. Feel like I'm starting to get some endurance back. Averaged 7:19/mile for the run.

Comments

From Superfly on Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 20:23:19

Great run man. I'm excited to see you out running again. That's some pretty good splits for someone who hasn't been running most of the year.

From Dale on Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:40:28

So glad to see that you're able to begin getting some quality runs in again. Cody provided a very vivid description of the toe....it would be quite entertaining if not so serious a subject.

Thanks again for sponsoring the NWP team and letting me be a part of it! I really had an absolute blast, aside from about 60 minutes of sheer panic when I managed to forget how to drive. Hope we represented your interests well!

Are you really fielding a team for the Washington DC relay this year? I saw MarathonGIS as a team and just wondered.

From Paul Petersen on Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:56:56

Dale - glad you had a good time at NWP.

Regarding DC, I gave my free team to a friend with the condition that he names it "MarathonGIS". They are a non-competitive team, and I am not taking part in the organization at all, so should be pretty mellow. They may be looking for more people if you are interested...

From Jon on Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 14:00:50

Dutch?

From Dale on Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 14:14:51

Thanks, but I think that may be a bit much for me. However, my brother's on the blog and lives in the DC area, so if you have a POC I could pass it along to see if he's interested. Or you could post it to his blog yourself at http://aaron-psu.fastrunningblog.com/ either way.

Oh, and quit calling it a free team! I now know lots of your labor went into those "free" teams.

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