| 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 City Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:59:51, Place in age division: 23 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 13.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.10 |
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Before I start the race report, thanks to Mike, Burt, Devine and QP for the well wishes at the races.
Up at 4 a.m. for a local race, the Trax getting to the start before the gun goes off - mission accomplished, we were at the start 45 minutes early, time to take care of business, chat with a few runners we knew from other races. We looked for Rachel, no where in sight.
The start, we decided to start towards the front, good decision, little trouble bopping and wearving today. I had a rough start, Sylvie left me early, could only muster up 9 minute miles for the first 5 easiest miles on the course. I may be the oddest split runner, ran the second half of the race, toughest half, in almost the exact same time as the first half by a few seconds. Downhill is just not my bag. Back to the race, beautiful day for a run, starting feeling good after the downhill to 11th east, thank goodness - good pace groove. When I hit Sugarhouse park, Sylvie had already made the turnaround as yelled at me as she made the turn at Highland highschool, she had a 3 minute lead on me, well, no catching her today. For whatever reason, had no speed, but, felt real strong, never stopped, not even at water stops. When we turned out of liberty park and headed towards state street, started passing runners who were fading, continued to pass runners from 9th south to south temple, nice uphill stretch. When I hit 4th south I could see Sylive about a half block ahead of me. Sylive calls it the Sylive pull, caught her as we turned on south temple, told her to hang and go with me. After the race, she said she had nothing left. I looked at my watch, had a chance to break 2 hrs, had no chance of breaking 9 min. miles, kicked it in the last 3/4 mile and kept passing runners all the way to the finish. No big deal passing runners at my slow pace, but, feels good, broke 2 hrs.
Thoughts after the race, could have finished a marathon today, felt strong at the end. The running up and down West Canyon (in Snow Canyon) has paid off with strength, not speed.
This was a post knee surgery PR in the half, 3 minutes quicker than HobbleCreek last year. Sylvie ran 2 hrs and small change and was 4 minutes faster than last year. All in all, happy with the race, hope to continue speed improvement, the endurace is good.
Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out |
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