Hiking Bierstadt - 14'er

Megan and I hiked Bierstadt today, had a great time.

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Published on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:24

Running the Seattle Rock'n'Roll Marathon, June 27, 2009

TJ and I ran the Seattle Marathon and Paul ran the Half Marathon. It was very painful event for me for a number of reasons!

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2) My knee killed - had to run the last 15 miles in horrible pain.

The results can be viewed at: http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?rsID=80443 http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=62122226&rsID=80443 I finished with a 4:16:48 which means my average pace was a 9:48. It took me a half hour to run/walk the last 2 miles.

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Clock Time 4:19:47
Chip Time 4:16:48
Overall Place 1962 / 5647
Gender Place 1218 / 2572
Division Place 202 / 390
Age Grade 48.6%
Pace 9:48
Ttlrace 5069000
Ttldiv 390
Ttlsex 2572
5 Km 27:41
10 Km 55:07
9 Mi 1:19:34
Half Way 2:01:32
30 Km 2:54:04
24 Mile 3:48:25

Here are some photos from the event:

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Published on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:48

Running the Rocky Mountain Half Marathon, June 14th 2009

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I ran the Rocky Mountain Half Marathon as my last half marathon before the Seattle full. This course was relatively hilly, a bit tougher than the Platte and Colfax, but not quite as bad as the Horsetooth.

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I ran it in 1:44:22 and finished 151st out of 1499. Race results can be viewed here: http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=61362657&rsID=78945

Some photos from the event:

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Published on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:24

Running the Colfax Half Marathon, May 17th, 2009

TJ and I ran the Colfax Half Marathon on May 17th.

It was the easiest half marathon that I had ever run because of the lack of hills.

The results can be viewed here: http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php?race_id=10791#racetop

I had my personal best time in this event by running it in 1:40:27, I finished 173rd out of 2352 runners. TJ ran it in a 1:33:25 and finished 78th overall.

Here are some pictures of the event:

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Published on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:12

Running the Horsetooth Half Marathon - April 19th, 2009

horsetoothhalf1I ran the Horsetooth Half Marathon with TJ. It was much more difficult course than the Platte River Half, but I improved my time.

I ran it in a 1:46:57 which was 172nd out of 954. TJ ran a 1:36:04 and finished 65th place.

The results can be viewed here:

http://www.runnersroostftcollins.com/Uploads/File/Race_Results/2009_HTH_Overall.pdf

Published on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:54

My First Half Marathon - The Platte River Half Marathon

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I ran the Platte River Half Marathon in April and want to make sure that I had the time and results documented.



This was my first half marathon and by far the coldest one that I’ve ever run.



All results can be viewed here:



http://results.active.com/pages/displayNonGru.jsp?pubID=3&rsID=76443



I finished in 292 place out of 1138 with a 1:49:04.

Published on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:38