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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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The dreadmill today, first time in the Murray Park Center for quite some time.  The $5 turned out to be worth the workout.  I have been reading David Holt, Tinman and many of the blogs.  Ran the first 8 miles at 8 minute mile on the Precor treadmill.  I mention Precor, they seem to be one of the toughest dreadmills for me to run on for some reason, they just don't feel like the road and have too much cushioning.  I call these miles easy as 8 min pace, because heart rate avg. was 140.  My St. George marathon pace was 7:42. 

Next Phase:  Ran 2 miles at 6:54 pace, then 1 mile x 3 at 6:54 pace. Total 5 miles.

Goofy Phase:  The darn dreadmill timed out at 1 hour, then timed out again calling it a cool down, started a threshold mile, dreadmill quit a little after 1 quarter.  Finally got off the darn dreadmill and moved to another to complete the threshold miles.  I was happy with my form and concentration.   The Ipod really got me thru the workout, boring, on the dreadmill.

Self assessment today:  I think that I could run a plus 50 year old  PR if it were a fair 5K, under 21 minutes.  I am following Sasha's method, of no taper or very little taper for the two Winter series sets of races (8 races total) , SLC Track Club and Striders.  I don't expect great times, but expect very good effort. 

B of BS Rools out. 

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Comments
From Benn on Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 17:40:54

I hear you about the treadmills. Sometimes if I am at a gym the treadmills do the time out things too, as if they know what the "suggested" warm down phase is. Guess that just goes to show you're in better condition than the company thinks! Way to go! I had to cut my run short because of final exams so only got 5.25 miles in today but i might go do some extra miles in a bit.

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