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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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Spinning, 1 hours, 300 crunches, upper body free weights, nice lite workout.

Scary Night - coming home from Boise, - wind sheer at the SLC airport, the pilot pulled up at the last second as the wing almost hit the ground, bumpy, bumpy ride, several passengers were up chucking.  The pilot circled and tried again - aborted earlier this time, we then went to Rock Springs and landed.  My nerves and several other passengers were shot,  flying for that night was done. Five of us rented a SUV and drove back to Salt Lake.  My co-workers on the trip kept telling me everything would be ok, they rode the plane back.  I don't think they had the same view as me, how close the wing was to hitting the ground. 

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

Not so funny Stewardess - she announced as we sat on the Rock Springs runway that no one was getting off the plane, it was "illegal and against the law" .  The pilot let us off after few moments to wait in the small airport.  As I got off the plane, I told the pilot and stewardness, I was not getting back on, the pilot said he would work on getting me a ride.   As we sat in the airport, the stewardness said:  "it is illegal and against the law to not get back on the plane". 

Anyway, I would have sat all night and caught a bus if needed, no getting back on that plane. 

Good to be back home and safe.  The pillot said it was the worst attempt at landing for him in his 11 years as a pilot. 

 

 

 

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Comments
From Mike Warren on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:55:03 from 208.117.124.133

Sounds crazy they would try to force you back on! I had a scary flight on Skywest once. Big loud bang, plane started dropping like a rock, oxygen mask came down and people were screaming and crying. A seal on the plane had broken and we were flying over the Sierra Mountains. The pilot had to get the plane low enough people could breath. Of course we did not know that, just thought we were going down. We all had to fill out an incident report. Luckily, all the flight crew was very nice & helpful.

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