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Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 10K

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Jan 01, 2006

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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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Sat, Feb 09, 2008

Race: Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:43:41, Place overall: 41, Place in age division: 2

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
4.40	0.00	6.24	0.00	0.00	10.64

Fun day at the races, the bloggers made a good showing today. The best part of the race was before and after meeting and talking to all the bloggers.

Race Report:

PreRace Hopes/Expectations: The goal was to run 7 minute mile pace. Avg. race pace 7:03 (close to goal). (8 women beat me today, got chicked by one) (geezered 3) +2

The pre-race, ran a warmup with Sylvie, 1.2 miles with a few striders. I was a little concerned about having dead legs aftert the high mileage (for me) weeks. Chatted with Kim, Tom and Darkhorse before the race. Thank goodness, the road was clear with no ice, no snow and no danger, very safe race.

Start: Me and Sylvie were about 4 rows back at the start, the start was much cleaner than the 5K and thinned out quickly as runners settled into a 10K pace.

Mile 1 - 6:47 split - The mile felt good, slightly downhill, followed another runner for most of the mile.

Mile 2 - 7:03 split - I could feel myself slowing a bit, hoping to settle into a pace and hold to the end.

Mile3 - 7:11 split, I thought this miler was closer to 7:30, the mile had a slight uphill and we had about a 15 mile an hour head wind.. James said after the race that he was worried the wind would shift and we would have a headwind going back. This sometimes happens as the wind shifts later in the day, It did not happen.

Mile 4 - 7:09 split, the miles were really starting to be hangon, every time when I felt myself slowing down, got up on my toes and picked up the pace trying to back into a good rythem.

Mile 5 - 7:06 split, it helped to see Sasha, Tom and other bloggers running back on the course, kind of helped with the motivation to hang on.

Mile 6 - 6:54 split, really attempted to crank it up to the end. This kind of wore me out.

Mile 6.2 - 1:41 split, not a good split for this .2, likely cost me the 7 minute miles.

After race cooldown for a few miles.

Overall, happy with the race, this year to last year 33 seconds faster per mile. Kim took a group picture of the bloggers after the race. Many ribbons were won by the bloggers. Bloggers rool. The dragon gone wild did not breath any fire today, Tom was the fire breathing dragon today with a (PR) (I think) and beating his goal time. Paula beat her goal time. I not sure on the other bloggers, will have to read the race reports. Sylvie had a good race today considering her hammy issues. I expect she will really get in a groove the next two months. (Got an oldprize, 2nd place red ribbon in division)

Goal Note, the guy who beat me today in my division, goal to beat him later in the year.

Happy Runner - B of BS Rools Out

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Comments

From Jody on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 16:03:00

Great race today!! You had negative splits the second half - AWESOME! The Fire Breathing Dragon will rule this summer!

From dave holt on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 19:21:13

Nice middle miles - that goal time is going down when you string those all together.

From Maria on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 19:22:38

Great job, Brent! Your hard training certainly pays off. It must be very rewarding to have great races after consistent training. Keep it up, I'm sure you'll have awesome year racing!!

From Paula on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 19:53:20

Great job today. You were quite the runner. I look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.

From James on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 19:54:38

Good job today! It was good to visit with you for a while after the race. It looks like you were right where you wanted to be today. You will get your goals this summer if you keep it up.

From Tom on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 20:10:37

Great race Brent! Good strong miles despite being a heavy mileage week. You will have some great races this year and WILL catch #1 in you age div.

It was great to talk to you and Sylvie and all the other bloggers. As you mentioned maybe that was the best part.

From Kim on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 20:42:23

Way to go Brent! Commando points for setting the goal to be the #1 guy! It was great to visit with you and the rest of the gang there today! Good luck with the 15K in a few weeks!

From Benn on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 22:24:15

Nice job on the race, Brent. And I have to say I like the fact that you make realistic goals and always see the positive side of every situation. You're an inspiration to some of us that just seem to have bad days sometimes. Enjoyed reading the report. :)

From Christi on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 02:52:10

AWESOME race Brent! Congrats on the 2nd place! Always inspiring to read how you give it your all! Sounds like an awesome day w/ the bloggies. Hope Kim posts the pics!

From Ian on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:33:45

Good race, the reward for all those dark early morning winter runs. I enjoy reading your blog and your race report is no exception. I like your goal.

From Tom on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:26:05

Brent/Christi - BTW the pictures Kim took from the race are now posted with my race report.

From MichelleL on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 18:12:21

Great job on your race Brent! 100 commando points for smashing your time from last year! And 10 commando points for pulling out a sub 7:00 at the end (makes up for the eee's). This year is starting strong for you!

From Mike Warren on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 22:27:24

Brent, very nice! Talk about improvement over last year, 33 seconds/mile, WOW!! Also, Awesome how you took mile 6 back in the 6's. You have alot of grit and determination. That guy just ahead of you, better start putting some extra effort in. The Dragon is coming!!!

From jtshad on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:49:07

Great race, Brent!

From Cal on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:59:18

Good job Brent! Impressive how your pace improved so much over a year ago.

From Adam RW on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 21:32:12

It was great to meet you and great race. I think it is great to see all these even splits. People really know how to run a race on this blog. Also 33 seconds/mile faster!!! That is GREAT!

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