| 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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| Hill spin 31 minutes - legs feel good - last bike effort before saturday. |
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I have been a basket case of anxiety the last few days, Sylvie has me listening to meditation tapes to calm me down, it has worked, I was wrapped so tight this morning, mediated before the swim. I have been having real problems sighting on open water swims and letting the waves rock me off course, watched 8 different U-tube vidoes on sighting in open water, talked to 2 of my Tri Geek friends - the day of change - yea - swam over a half mile, went off course my a couple of yards only once - I am so darn happy, Sylvie says this is the fastest I have swam open water, da, if you swim straight - my nerves are better - huuuuuum.
Getting all my transistion stuff, etc. ready for the journey -
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Many thoughts on the day
The few days before he race, much anxiety about the swim, turns out, with good reason.
I have wanted to be an Iron Man - well, today was not the day. I said to myself, give it your best effort no matter what happens - no regrets
Day day was brutal with wind - I was calm before the swim, the pros were off, we were starting 15 minutes later - the wind was mild, the waves were not too bad. We waded in the water, treaded water until the horn. Almost in cink with the horn the wind gods must have thought the horm meant to crank up the wind. As we swam south, the waves just got more intense, as I approached the first big read bouy, about a mile into the swim, the waves were crashing over my head, two or three feet high, swimmers were srarting to bail, I kept on trying to time my breath with the waves crashing over my head - I had had enough - signaled to be picked up. Me and three others loaded onto a jet ski - too much weight, the the ski started taking on water, we signaled the shore patrol boat, it paid no attention, I started looking for the closest shore line, thought I would be back in the water. The shore patrol picked us up just in time. My legs were beat from treading water, trying to sight the bouy, hard to see with the big waves.
We were dumped on the dock - a guy started taking off our timing chips and said we were done for the day - I said, that is not right, it is unsafe out there, you should cancel the swim - a young guy with me upon hearing we were done for the day wanted to go back out, I had a fleating though I would go back with him. Well, it was not worth drowning over. Come to find out later that several hundred were pulled out the water, a couple of bouys were blow off course. It was a mess.
It takes quite a bit to have me cry, I was crying along with another guy, tears were coming down. The race people did not care, take your bike and bag and leave was the message. I looked for Sylvie, could not find her. I loaded a bus, could not take the bike on the bus, a guy on the bus took my bag and said he would call me later to pick it up, nice of him. I hopped on the bike and started riding the course with other bikers who had finished the swim. The course went right by the parking area, I stopped and planned on waiting for Sylive - the only lucky part of the day, a lady who had done two Ironmans was the lot attention and had an Iphone - she said the race director hand announced that people pulled out of the water could continue the race, but would get no race time? What did that mean? The problem, may athletes has already left as the annoucement came so later, alost 90 minutes after we were pulled out of the water.
It took a few minutes to get back on the course, rode like heck to make the cutoff time at bluff street - kept pushing on, made he cutoff. It wax obvious from the number of bikers on the course that many did not continue and did not make the cutoff time for the bike. The wind on the bike was brutal, brutal and brutal again, same as the swim, It was slow going up HW91 around to Veyo, my legs started cramping, stopped and ate 4 bananas a couple of times, took salt tablets, plenty of liquids, fought on to make the cutoff times - I passed almost everyone on the hilss, glad to have done the hill work. On the second loop at gunlock aid station I stopped for fuel, two others also stopped, one guy said this is the first time he has stopped in 15 IMs, tough day, the other guy said we were ok on the cutoff of 5:30 for the run, I said well, not so fast we have to be to Veyo by 4:30, better get moving. It was hard on all the bikers dealing with the wind, the cutoff times, tough, tought day on a tough course.
I was off to the races, passed everyone to Veyo and made the cutoff, did not find out if the other two made it. After staring the run, did see a half dozen bikers I had been riding with, I think most of them made the cutoff. A couple of bikers said - wow, you are a climmer, nice comment.
The ride into town with all the spectators was great, cannot say enough about the crowds cheerng and the race volunteers, the other athletes were so supportive saying you can do it. With no credit to the race organizers, the atheletes, spectators and volunteers made the race.
I hit the run part 24 minutes before the cutoff time, I wondered how many did not make it because of the brutal swim and bike ride - the wind was the biggest winner.
My legs were dead, I knew this would be a tough tough leg - mile 19 my legs were done, my knee swelling up - I was done, Also not enought time to make it before midnight - darn, I was super bummed -but, given the day - gave it my best effort.
A big shout out goes to my coach Sylvie who stuck the whole thing out with me, could have not given the effort without her.
A big shout out to Mark who helped me at the bike transistion and run aid stations, it was great to have his support. Mark was shocked to see me, he thought I was done for the day after the swim debockle.
Thanks to all the good wishes for a great race from Mike, James, T NA NA, Devine Miss M, Cat on the move, QP, Dale G, Tom and his wife, and others I may have missed.
This is the first race I had not finished, I wonder if my 61 years is catching up to me. Talked to Mike on the phone for about an hour, hope to get into Arizona the next year, need to find a half Iron read soon to get me back in a good frame of mind.
The IronMan brand was tarnished this day - they were arrongant, were not ready for the weather and treated the athletes with disrespect. I hoped that learned something. The swim should have been stopped everyone given a 2:30 swim time or the swim time this finished if faster. The water was not safe, likely well over 400 DNFs.
There are many more details to the race - a couple of funny moments
Stopped an aid station to get sun screen, the lady was putting on the sun screen with such are, I told her the women kiss the athletes at Boston, we both laughed, did not get a kiss, but it was funny.
The coppers, the drafting cops were on the course taking numbers, maybe going to give us all a penalty, need to pass someone in 15 seconds and get 4 bike lengths ahead, almost impossible to do climing the hills .
Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out
By the way, I wish Sasha could do something for Tri Geeks blogging races.
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| 20 mile mtn bike ride up snow canyon, not too hard, recovery ride. |
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| Spin on - nice effort, legs still feeling it. |
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| Spin - 2 hrs 4 minutes - 4 circuits, weights, crunches, ect. - very nice workout. |
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| Spin, still bummed - spirits getting better. |
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Yea, pretty much recovered from the IM - 1 mile swim working on form, then 5.25 miles running with Sylvie - ran all but a few yrds - surprised my legs are reconvering fast.
Signed up for the Utah Half distance triathlon at Utah lake - half the IM distance - did the race last year - fun time. Also signed me and Sylive up for the Huntsman senior games:
Sylive - sprint Tri, Cycling hill climb, 10k and 5k
Brent - Sprint Tri, Cycling hill climb, cycling time trial, cyclying road race, 5k and 10K -busy week with the old farts.
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Bike 52 miles, moderate hard effort, legs felt it, nice to have them working again. Signed up for the Summer games Tri in June - Gunlock Res. did it last year.
Get back in the saddle - I keep playing the IM over and over again in my head - it will take a little more time to move on, one week removed.
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| Beautiful morning along the JRP - Sylvie and Roxie went a half mile with me, ran most of the way, nice day - legs felt better than expected. Keep after it.
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Spinning on - good effort 28 miles - legs are good to go |
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5.5 miles crossing training - 22 miles spinning, avg pace 22 mph. - Circuit workout tonight with some more cardio - getting back on the horse.
Circuit weights, crunches, flys, balance thingy, etc. nice strength workout - 90 minutes spinning, 20 mph effort.
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| Lunch time - 1 mile swim at NW center - worked on rotation and pull, Spin class with Sylvie - worked in hard, 1 hour Yoga with Sylvie - yoga is always tough 3 hrs working out today - 95% recovered Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out |
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| Me and milly going silly, cheetah and run, felt good - I signed up for STG, my daughter and her husband did not get in, bumber, way bummed. They may do TOU. Reflections - I am going to my writeup of the IM.
Run with Sylvie after work. Ran/cheetach with Sylvie - fun to get out with her and Roxie
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49 miles bike - circuit weights, etc. - nice little workout - hum, got a call from my daughter in-law, wants us to run a Red Rock relay with them in Sept, said yes, will be fun.
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Swim on - 1 mile, working on form, arms tired from weights - good effort
Run on JRP with Sylvie and Roxie - Sylvie ate just before we ran, mistake, she struggled during the run, actually had to wait for her several times, practiced quick turnover today, short strides, low impact, seemed to work well. Signed up for STG, time to slowly inscrease miles and keep stress low on the knees, just me shufflen.
Good luck to everyone at Ogden in the morning.
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| Spin, 1hr 43 minutes - yard sales today on on block - made about $80. |
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3 hrs spinning, 60 miles +, nice effort, 30 minutes circuit weights - 6.2 miles running with Sylvie and Roxie - nice to get outside for a run. *Note, run on dirt as much as possible.
Goals next few weeks, more long bricks, get read Tris - start building for STG, trail runs.
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Spinning and spinning - need to get on some real roads this weekend in STG. 2 hrs and 30 minutes spinning, about a 20.6 mph hour effort. Legs seem to be back to normal.
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Nice run with Sylvie and Roxie north and back along JRP, this is a good run for me, can run about 4 of the miles on dirt. 24 miles spinning - somewhat lazy today, skipped the weights.
It is difficult to get back in training mode - maybe Gunlock will get me going.
Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out
I have replayed the IM over 100 times in my head, the results were still and same, move on, give it another shot next year.
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Short on time - hurried bike workout, good pace and effort.
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1 mile swim, working on rotating, catching water, etc. boring, only one in the pool until the last ten minutes. 1.5 hours spinning - weight circuit workout - good effort, getting stonger, without Rocky.
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Turtle wall run with Sylvie, windy as heck, got to the top, stayed 5 seconds and headed down, too much wind.
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Swim and Shac, 1 mile, working on form, keeping head down, etc. talked to a couple tri Geeks - nice to get a swim in.
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27 mile mtn bike ride, fun, up and down snow canyon, tuacon, nice ride, working it hard.
5 mile round around the chuckawalla rim over looking the valley, rocky run, new trail, stubbed my toe, ouch, swelled up. Sylvie ran well,
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20 mtn bike ride with Sylvie, gave her a workout, she bagged the two hardest miles and waited for me, she was a trooper given how crazy I ride some times.
*Note, over it, past it, moving on - tomorrow is a new day, scrap book IM is done, do not look at it until a year or more has passed, it is what I do today that counts - new training plan starting soon.
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| spin, spin, big toe hurts, doc appt to be made |
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| Spin, spin, good effort, legs are back - hope to get some running in tomorrow. |
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