| 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" Favorite Blogs: |
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Salt Lake Track Club Winter 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:21:26, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.75 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.85 |
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Before race: Walking in the SaltAir builing, met James and his brother. Me and Sylvie got our race numbers and yelled hi to the darkhorse. The darkhorse looked like all business, had his game face on early. On the other hand, James was ready to run up the Oquirrh mountains. We saw Sasha walk in looking very regal. We stopped and talked to George Adams for a few minutes, form President of the SLC Track Club for several years. No one seems to be in much of a talking mood before races.
Pre Race Warmup: Me and Sylvie walked out to the frontage road course. Right away we could see that passing runners and staying safe would cost a few seconds or more off the race times. The road had two 2-foot dry running lanes for most of the race, opened up in some spots. This made it tricky to try and pass runners at times. Two young girls almost got knocked down at the start, they were running side by side in one of the lanes starting at the front of the race. It took about 1/2 to get in a good running groove where passing was less of an issue.
Half way point or about, out and back course, the leaders were coming back, Sasha was in third, last year's winner was kicking butt again. As we turned around the cone, passing and the running lanes became an issue again for about 1/2 mile as runners were going out and coming back. I got stuck behind two runners longer than I would have liked, when I finally passed them, one lady runner started holding on to me, she did really well and finished 4 seconds behind. (She was only 30 years younger than me, I did not tell her she got geezered).
The last 1/2 mile, I started to try and reel in a couple of runners, did not catch them, but almost, and likely helped my time. Did not kick as much as normal at the finish because of the safety issue with the road.
Quickly, went back on the course to run Sylvie in, seen Jody looking strong coming in, yelled at her, she was in a zone, ran Slyvie in until she started her finishing kick.
Race perspective, improved on same race last year 1 minute 37 seconds. 7 seconds off my best 5K since turning 50. The best shape I have been in, this time of year, since I turned 50. Bottom line: feel very well about mileage base, need to keep working on tempo runs and speed workouts. (One other minor comment, have been not feeling well with a cold for a few days, energy lower than normal, don't know what this means race time as it happens to all runners.)
After race talkie, talkie: Great, Jody ran a PR, met her and Paula, very nice WOWs. We talked to Sasha for a minute, visited with several runners while waiting for the awards.
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