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Location:

MURRAY,UT,US

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Stay in the game, keep in the moment - have conquered a few of the holy grails of running - sub 3hr marathon, ran Boston and qualified for Boston at Boston, 10K PR under 6 min miles, won a couple of 5Ks in my early days of running, running for 30 years and ran 39 marathons. The transistion to the back of the pack has not been easy, but, acceptance, stay in the game, root for others, enjoy the rest of the journey. Another off the bucket list second = Provo Half IM - have done 6 open water Tris and 6 pool Tris. Gave the STG IM a good Tri, hope to take another shot at the IM.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2013 Race Plan - STG Half IronMan, Lake Mead Rage Olympic distance, STG spring relay tri, STG half marathon, STG marathon, Cozumel IM, Utah Summer Games Triathlon at Gunlock, Murray 5k with family and Utah Half Distance Triathlon, 187 mile red rock relay, STG marathon,

*note of clarification - cross training miles from biking and swimming calculated as follows: (as someone may wonder) 20 mile an hour bike = 5 cross training miles (those not familar with a 20 mph pace, good bike effort for long distance, swimming, convert 1 hour swimming to 5 cross training miles. For those that do not swim much, great cardio workout.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy the Swim, Bike Run thru Life - Hope to Run a Few Races Support Sylvie - Be a good coach - Support Jenna, Jeremy, Taylor and Bonnie - my kids are now into running, who would of thunk it. long term goals, recover from the ankle sprain, accept was it, have fun racing, mountain biking, faster swimming.

B of BS Rools Recent Reading List - In order of recommended reads.

Once a Runner (John L. Parker, Jr.) Best fictional running book ever, a must read

Again to Carthage (John L. Parker, Jr.) The Sequel to Once a Runner, not often a sequel compares, this one does

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ( Haruki Murakami) things we have may all thought, but may never blog

Roughing It - Mark Twain

Personal:

BSRools, the B stands for Brent and the S for Sylvie. The Rools come from my personal running rools over the years: Never complain once the run starts, allways pick up the pace into the wind and always pick up the pace on a hill. If someone whines, pick up the pace. Once a goal is set, no whining, regardless of setbacks. We were running when running was not Kool. Kool comes from a race story, ran my first race, 5K wearing a "beanie that had "Kool Aid Kid"

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Sun, Feb 17, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
8.19	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.19

Body be Good Miles - dog walking day. Reflections from the race yesterday. Many of the comments from yesterday were right on. It is not reasonable to expect great races with no taper, higher miles, etc. I am going to take a different approach the next few weeks, drop back the miles and try and get the legs more ready for the races. 15K, 10k and 1/2 in the next three weeks. There is another overrideing fact that I always want to forget, at my age, 57, just don't recover as quickly as younger runners.

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Comments

From steve ashbaker on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:34:32

You are young in spirit Brent. I believe that makes you younger physically also.

From Bonnie on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:57:07

Hi Brent,

Don't reflect too much on your race from yesterday. From the looks of your race schedule you are "racing" yourself into shape -- which can make you very strong, but if you do that you have to be willing to see some less than stellar times. It was a great training run on the heels of some high mileage and weeks of races ... that is what it was. PR time will come very soon - but I like your plan of some down weeks (maybe one or two) while you do some more races in quick succession.

It is also true that we mature athletes do not recover as quickly -- in my experience anyway, and we also seem to require a little more "routine" in our habits ;-). Young at heart though for sure!

Bonnie

From Maria on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 13:30:05

Brent, I think you ran a very respectable time, all factors considered (hills, high mileage, no taper, cold weather). As Bonnie said, looking at your race schedule, your high mileage days are over for this season, if you want to race decently (and stay injury-free!). And it's okay - if you put in 8+ weeks of base, high mileage training, you should reap the benefits of higher aerobic capacity and can concentrate on more race-specific workouts. Next time you have 2-3 months without important races, you can increase your mileage again and get to yet another level. Good luck in the next few weeks, you will do great!

From Brent on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 13:53:38

Darkhorse - thanks for the young at heart, my heart says that I can still chase younger runners, they legs just don't list some times. One funny thing did happen in the race yesterday. I pulled along side a runner on the downhill and made a comment on the tough hills. His first question, how old are you, are you in my division. When I said my age, I'm not sure if he was glad that I was 10 years older or was upset an old dude was passing him.

Bonnie and Maria - very good insight and thoughful comments. It is time to adjust my training to be specific for the race schedule. Thanks for the support. Bonnie - see you next saturday at the 15K?

Stay Kool - B of BS Rools out

From Bonnie on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 16:09:14

I hope to be there next week, if I can stay healthy this week ... too much traveling I think. Plus, I spent some time with some friends that have 3 walking petrie dishes (3 year old twins that go to daycare and an 8 year old) who knows what kind of bugs I got ;-).

From Jon on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 22:16:16

One thought on your plan to drop miles and get ready for the races- is your primary goal to PR at these races? Or is it to use these races to improve for a later race (i.e. Ogden marathon, etc)? If you want to PR these races, then slight tapers may be good. If not, then I would not let up at all! View these for what they are- training races, not racing races. The harder they are, the better you do later.

I do agree that adding more hills would help with the other ones, though, if you feel that was a weekness. No worries, though.

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