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MURRAY,UT,US

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2006

Gender:

Male

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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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Tuacon - practice Duathlon workout - my workout partner Sylvie - we arrived at the gym just in time to run on the treadmill and go right to the spin class - ran 1.7 miles at 3% grade, 8:15 pace, good hard effort - Sylvie ran 1.5 doing pickups -  hopped off the Millies and ran over to the Spin class, the class was warming up - rode hard simulating the bike portion - hopped off the spin bike when the class started cool down - ran 15 laps around the indoor track, 10 laps to the mile - it was fun running with Sylvie, she got me on one pickup and I got her on the last lap.  Normally, never run on such a surface in circles, too much pressure on the knee, the knee did not bother me today - good thing.   We were both very happy with the workout, our legs are ready. 

Upper body free weights - 250 crunches, 100 pushups, stretching -

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Spin - 22.38 miles in 1 hour, good effort - first 30 minutes road hard at 12 resistance avg pace 22.11 mph, lowered the resistance to 11, avg pace 22.27 - what this says:  more resistance is not always faster.  Also, legs were also somewhat fatigued from the first 30 minutes.  I am going to try higher cadence with 10 resistance later this week.  Why is this important - in Tris or duathlons - want the most efficiency from the bike and save legs for the run. 

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Dark side of the moon this morning - absent be the moon, snow flakes, runners, walkers and noises in the dark.  Very uneventful morning of running, almost a sleep walking run.   I won no imaginary races this morning. 

Almost out of the funk - spinning - crashed the first spin class in the middle, Tina, instructor gave me the go ahead any time, just keep it on the down low.  Rode hard for 90 minutes thru the second class, 31.15 miles.  Nice people in the class, two or three always ask me how many miles?  What are you training for? I wonder why?  Feel like rock start with groopies?  Hum, Kelly started this with giving kudos for marathons, 100 bike rides, etc. to the class.  I would just as soon set at the back and spin in anonimity like any upstanding workout junkie. 

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5 a.m run, Snow Canyon Prkway - dark as heck going west towards Tuacon, almost ran head on into a couple of runners wearing all black.   Nice morning run, as a I headed back east the moon had a crooked smile for me, saying, hum, you are back to running with me again. 

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Run with Sylvie, we run up West Canyon in Snow Canyon Park, 4 miles up a nicely parked dirt run with rolling heads up to the end of the 4 miles.  Very nice run on red dirt.  Sylvie ran great and gave me a good workout.   Later that day, rode bike, from the condo to the top of snow canyon, good workout, 30 miles. 

*Note, we are going to do this 8 mile snow canyon run when in St.George, very good run for my knee on dirt and good for Sylive to practive up hill, love St.George

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Snow Canyon, up west canyon again along the dirt road with Sylive, legs somewhat fatigued from yesterday.  Sylvie was a trooper doing back to back after not running much for three months, very nice day.   We had mom, dad and two kids pass us on the way up - the mom told her kids, look at the muscles on those runners, that is why they run everywhere, funny.  They beat us to the top on mountain bikes by a few minutes. 

Money Pit - fixup project - got the tile done, now the toilet leaks - this is becoming a project. 

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