| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 59.68 | 12.60 | 3.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.63 |
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Body Be Good Miles - Easy recovery run. No hot spots or ill effects from the 10K, just some normal tiredness. What I thought was going to be an uneventful run, turned out to be quite funny.
At about 4 and 1/2 miles seen about 8 runners with 3 dogs, they were part of a U of U class on running. Anyway, said hi and continued on another 1/2 mile to my turnaround point. Well, the first thought, I will likely catch the group before I get home. Sure enough, with 2 miles left caught the group on a 1/4 mile boardwalk accross a swampy area along the river. Well, the boardwalk is only about 5 feet wide, so I got in line and decided just to follow until the runners cleared the boardwalk. Well, in about the middle of the boardwalk, a blue hair lady was walking her Malmuit, Alaskan looking dog. The dog was going nuts trying to get to the other three dogs. The blue hair lady was pulling with all she had to keep her dog back. She was facing parallel to the boardwalk pulling. All of a sudden the Malmuit stopped pulling, but she was still pulling. Her and the dog flew backwards 2 feet down off the boardwalk into about 2 feet of snow in a swampy area. We stopped, she was alright. I could not stop laughing for a few minutes it was such a funny sight. Where was the Dog Wishper when you need him? Ran with the group for a mile and then stopped and talked to George Adams for a minute, he ran the 10 K yesterday.
Running Bottom Line: You never know when that uneventful run will be eventful.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.97 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.22 |
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Body be Good Miles - Early morning run, nice temp. this morning. Normally don't like to retrace my steps more than out and back, made an exception today because of some ice/snow and retraced twice. Plan on more miles at lunch. Not sure what type of miles.
Fun race weekend, almost sad to see it go and move to the next goal. It is funny, little time can be spent reflecting on the last race as the next challenge is quickly ahead. If you spend too much time looking back, you won't be ready.
Lunch time, 4 x 100 yrd stiders, 6:40 pace, easy miles.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 13.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.23 |
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Jelly legs today - Got a real good massage last night. The guy who did the massage has worked on David Beckem and some other pros. Anyway, he did a great job on my IT band area especially. Decided to buy a dozen visits. The massage was overdue. Sylvia also got her hammy worked on.
Jelley Legs Lunch run: 10 laps. The deep tissue massage does take some adjustment time.
Jelly Legs, B of BS Rools out
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.20 |
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Lunch time run with Colleen, ran in short, shorts, lilly white legs, what a pretty sight. Nice to get outside before the storm. May run a few more miles after work.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 12.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.60 |
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Hamster in a cage run today - Treadmill, .5% incline, 7:47 pace. Ran out the time on the treadmill. This was my only option today. Streets not plowed, yada, yada, yada. The treadmill is such a mental game, my mind was first saying, well, I will stop every 5 laps and get a drink of gatorade, take it easy today. After a few laps, Dona shows up to run. She usually runs 6 miles at a 9:30 pace. Well, decided to not stop until she finished. She was about done and Frank shows up to run, mental adjustment again, don't wimp out, hang out untill 99 minutes times out the treadmill. No crazy rock n roll trivia puns today, punned out.
Stay Kool, the gangs all here, B of BS Rools out.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.18 |
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Early morning run, cold, but very nice to not be on the treadmill. I quite enjoyed the run. Danced around a few icy spots.
Stay Kool, Two Left Feet, B of BS Rools out
Across the Universe - weather your a beatles fan or not, weather your old enough to remember, weather you were for or against the war, weather you lost someone dear, weather you believe or not, the movie is a snapshot of a sad time not to be forgotten. The time had a special meaning, best not to share, best not to preach, see the flick and reflect and project. A tear or two shed. B of BS Rools out |
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Striders 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:23:06, Place overall: 56, Place in age division: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.10 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.20 |
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Wakeup Call, Big Time: Run all the miles you want on the flat, you will be good on the flat. Striders 5K, after not running hills since St.George, the hills were brutal. I will add more details once I find out my time, place and give this day some thought for future training.
Short race description:
The course was just as expected from talking to other runners. I did expect to be stronger getting up the hills after all the miles I have ran the last few months. That part was disappointing. Positive side, passed several runners on each downhill portion and never got passed back. Had one runner pass me towards the end, dropped three runners ahead of me in the last mile. Very happy with my legs on the downhill recovering from the uphill. Ran 1 mile warmup, one mile cooldown and then ran another 5 miles when I got home. The temp felt about 15 to 20 with the slight wind. Sylvie had a good race.
Reading Sasha's comments on Andy's race, race about 1 minute slower than a flat PR 5K. Comparing this race to the SLTC 5K three weeks ago, 1 min 37 seconds slower. This tells me I am 37 seconds slower (conditioning for hills) than another runner running the same flat 5K in the same time. Maybe this is not scientific, but, does not take an expert to direct training towards hills. (minor note - first place guy in my division has me by 6 seconds, need get the time back the next race)
Takeaway form the race, hills, hills and more hills.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 59.68 | 12.60 | 3.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.63 |
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