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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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Brooks Pure Connect Blue Lifetime Miles: 337.25
New Balance Trainers Lifetime Miles: 314.50
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I rode my bike to the hospital and back for another alcohol injection into my foot. It's about 3 miles each way, so I figure it's worth a couple x-training miles. The shot hurt a little bit more this time, but 10 hours later, my foot is feeling better than before. Some of this may just be local (temporary) numbness from the cocktail I received, so I'll know more tomorrow. But the alcohol injections supposed start having an effect as early as 2 shots into the series, although it's more likely that I'll still need a few more shots before I get any benefits.

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Ran to gym. 20 minutes on elliptical. 2x20 adductors @ 90 lbs, 2x18 abductors @ 90 lbs. Ran home. Foot feels about the same as it did before the shot.

Weighed myself at the gym and found that I had gained 4 lbs over vacation. Half a pound a day, for you math nerds. I think it's some sort of weird osmosis effect from being in Detroit for that long. At least I didn't take up smoking too. 

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Rode my bike to the doctors office this morning. I saw a sports med guy named Dr. Lyons for my neck and SI joint, which have both been hurting pretty bad since February. He is definitely the best doctor of any sort I've been to in Logan, and would recommend him for sports injuries (he's in the Canyon View Orthopedics office, Budge Clinic). Mostly my favorable review for him comes from the the amount of the time he took with me (not in hurry), the thoroughness of which he explained and educated me, and also the fact that he's the first doctor I've been to that's given any respect to chiropractors and LMT's. It also helped that he is a marathoner.

Anyway, after some x-rays, he said that I probably have facet arthrosis in my neck, which sounds worse than it is. Basically my neck is supposed to curve, but instead it's straight. Bad for the shock absorption, I guess. He said it's also kind of a cartilage issue, and very similar in some ways to having runners' knee in my neck. He also noted that my joint and ligament flexibility is unusually high, and my muscle flexibility is too low. Many people have point out my poor muscle flexibility, but he's the first to talk about a different type of flexibility. Unfortunately, this combination may make me susceptible to injury and misalignment, perhaps explaining why I've had runners' knee in both knee at different times, chronic SI pain on both sides, and neck pain for no apparent reason.

I had told him that ibuprofen was effective in easing the pain. He thought that was a good sign, but rather like dropping a glass of water on a large fire. He suggested something more like dropping a large bucket on a fire, which of course means cortisone. So now I'm taking oral cortisone for 6 days. This is the most powerful anti-inflammitory available, so it may just snuff out the fire, and allow my neck to relax or whatever it needs to do. But if the cortisone doesn't do it on it's own, he also prescribed physical therapy (yea!). So I'll see how things go through the weekend, and may or may not start PT next week. Of course, I also have Josse's magic scraping tools on the way, so I have high hopes for those too. I'm really sick of PT, and don't want to go back. If the PT doesn't work, he said that the next step would be doing a blood test for some condition or disease that I may have symptoms of, but I honestly forgot the name. I think he said it goes by A.S. for short.

A habit I'm trying to get into is asking for a DVD of any x-ray I get, or any ultrasound my wife gets. I figure it's my body, so I should have a record of this stuff. And the hospital staff seems ready to oblige, all you have to do is ask. For your blog amusement, here's the image of my too-straight neck. Note that I do indeed have a brain.


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Haven't done any workouts since Wednesday...if you call biking for transportation a workout. However, I've been sleeping like a baby every night thanks to the joy of painting. We are redoing our bedrooms and hallway, and pregnant wife = husband does the entire job. Very exhausting, and every waking moment not at work is spent doing this project. But it's coming along well. I am not a good painter, but in any case it's better than what was there before.

An even more exhausting job is peeling wallpaper. We have three layers of wallpaper plus multiple layers of paint caked on our bedroom walls. That's what we get for living in an 85-year-old house. I rented a steamer today, and it worked reasonably well...but certainly no magic tool. I still have a lot of chipping to do, then repairs and other prep.

So how does this convert to cross training miles?  

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