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MURRAY,UT,US

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2006

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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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Gym, Spin - good effort 22 mph, for 12.33 miles

Spin - after work 28.4 miles

Half marathon recovery, feel better today, hopefully, Mexican Mountain Goat workout tomorrow.

Stay Kool, B of bS Rools out

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Spin 12 miles, hard interval every minute, shake up the legs, 26 miles spinnin during idol, 300 ball crunches with 20lb weights behind head to belly with each curl, killer.

Tri  keep trying, I ain't lying,

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Odd day, Started the Mexican Mountain goat workout with Tony, took one step, no way - road the spin bike for 30 minutes, Tony still doing the workout, hopped on Milly and ran the .61, end of his workout, 8% grade at a 6.8 mph pace.  My knee functions best with a warmup. 

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Great day for a ride, 20 miles bike, from house to top of west canyon and home, just nice to get out, I was going nuts not working out with the relay on saturday.

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Race: Lake to Lake Relay (10 Miles) 01:30:00, Place overall: 77
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Time 8 hrs, 17minutes - 43 seconds - (9:43 pace)  51.22 miles

Lake to lake relay, gunlock to Sand Hallow - some doubts about the relay, sitting in the truck for 8 legs, no fun, etc.  Just the opposite, way fun.  The team = myself, Sylvie, Taylor and Bonnnie (step son and his wife) a Tammy (friend).  We discussed the night before, which legs to take, hard to know how you will recover from leg to leg.  I had the 5th and 9th leg.  It was settled, give the Mexican mountain goat leg 9.  The green opps team was ready.

The start at gunlock was crazy with all the costumes.  Now, what would expect if a prize is being given for the shortest shorts?  Well, lets say the there was some southern exposure.

Leg 1 - Sylive, good downhill runner, got us off to a good start under 9 min miles for her leg. It was fun to cheer along the runnners as we knew this is the last time we would see many of the faster teams. 

Leg 2 - This was Taylor's leg, he got worried about this leg with the uphill coming up from the river botttoms, switched him legs and took leg 2.  Very good start, was rollout along, almost missed the turn off on highway 91, was in the zone, my support team had a gu and drink for me every two miles, passed 6 and had 2 pass me, happy with the leg, pace was under 9 minute miles. 

Leg 3 - Sylvie, tried to talk her out of this leg and take a later leg, give her most rest, nothing doing, she wanted a hard workout.  This leg is where we met America's team, crazy team with a cow bell, air horn and best cheerers on the road and beard power, hooked up with them a couple of times.  Sylive had forgot the long uphill back to Snow Canyon Drive, she was beat after a hard effort.  She was done.  

Leg 4 - Off was Bonnie, gave her the shortest and fastest leg, she ran well, under 9 min miles.

During these legs we stopped to cheer on runners, and gave our runners what they wanted, gus, bananas, gator aid, water, etc.

Leg 5 - Taylor  - leg half on city trails and half on the road, good fast leg.  Bonnie was worried we would not make the cutoff times.  After this leg we were almost two hours, pace, ahead of the cutoff time.  

Leg 6- Tammy, not sure how much she has been training this winter, she seem pooped,  about 11 minute miles.  Anyway, she was tough and held the pace.

Leg 7 - Bonnie, she started out great climbing a hill then we were out of touch with her, this leg we gave back more time, her knee started to bother her and she walked much of the last two miles of this leg.

Leg 8 - Tammy, steady with the pace, slowed and walked parts of the tough dirt and up Dam Road, pace was over 11 min miles.

Summary to this point, hate giving time back to the course on relatively easy legs, but, it was just for fun, adjusted my attitude, just have fun, you will break the 10 hour time limit.

Leg 9 - my leg had heard stories, prize being given for team members running leg 9, what the heck, I could see the dirt road climbing up from the exhange, it did not look too tough.  Tammy, arrived, apologizing about being slow, told her she did great and as off to tackle the hill.  The hill was not real tough, it was the darn rottem footing, deep ruts, loose rocks, etc. Yes the leg was tough.  Nascar pit crew was geat, when the trail shifted from dirt to pavement, changed shoes with my pit crew getting me going in less than a minute.  Changed from clown trail to clown road.  The crew was great.

Leg 10 - Taylor, cranked out this leg, passed 7 othe teams, we finished 77 out of 97 teams. 

We all ran with Taylor ot the finish, joked with America's team.

It was great fun, and pace did not really matter, everyone tried real hard, happy with everyone's effort.  We may do this next year, who knows. 

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

 

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