| 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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Nice mother's day - took Roxie for an easy 8 mile run, 4 miles north along the parkway to 3900 south and back home, seen several dog walkers, quail, roxie had a blast, she is becoming a good running partner. Stopped, talked to George Adams a few minutes, long time running friend and former age division foe when we were both running well. My legs were tired from yesterday, no hot spots, just the normal stuff. I may workout more later today.
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1 hour spin 22.33 mph, good hard effort, kool down for another couple miles at 20 mph. Hopefully, another workout later.
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Spin 30 minutes, 20.8 mph pace, 3 miles milly, 3% grade, converted chart pace 8:10
This could have been a very boring workout, happend to hit the gym when Tony and Colleen was running, time went by quick, runner talkity talk. Hope to spin class it tonight.
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After work spin, 54 minutes, moderate effort, converted to 4.5 cross training miles.
Self training note, the Dixie Palms project really cut into my training time for almost three months, now have the time to work back up to 60 to 70 combined running and cross training miles each week. |
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1 hour spin - 22.6 miles, good hard effort. cool down. 1.4 miles moderate effort, circuit weights. Somewhat apprehensive about the half on saturday, the downhill worries me. But, it will be fun to be part of the big event.
Master swimming - tough, though, drills, etc. my first swimming lesson ever. Had a buddy from the spin class and the instructor helping me. I am exhausted, darn swimming is tough. Converted to 2 miles cross training.
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Noon run - with Colleen and Tony, redwood multi puspose area towards Rose Park Golf course and back to work. My whole body was tired today.
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| Day off, rest and relax - took my bike for a tuneup at Fezzari - savings my bucks for a Tri Bike, will likely buy the Fezzari T5. Stay Kool, B of BS Rool out |
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Ogden Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:58:21 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 13.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 18.10 |
| An another adventure - first time running the half marathon, knew what to expect having ran the full a few times. A funny thing happened on the way to the race.
Chip checking at the expo - checked my chip, Davey Allison, was the runner before, running buddy from work, ran the Top of Utah Marathon with him, race morning, looking for a fire to keep warm, out of hundreds of runners, stood right behind Davey Allision at the fire, nice chat about old running times.
Bus to the start - out of several buses, me and Sylvie board, who gets on - Devine Miss Miss M, Queen Josse, her sister Ericka and LuzyLew. Was this meant to be, the two expecting runners on board to kick my behind, well they did, 200 negative commando points for me. Very nice chatting with these ladies on the bus and at the fire waiting for the start.
The race, lined up back with the 9 minute milers, where I should be, but, lost precious time trying to get around runners who should have been behind. My watch time said 1:58:21 from start line to finish line, both Devine's and Sylvie's times were messed up. My time was messed up also, we all three started out watches from start line to finish line. It must be something wrong with the new chips on your numbers not reading when going accross the Matts.
Race Hopes - beat SL Half time, missioin accomplished, 90 seconds faster. Really don't know how to compare the courses, more uphill at Ogden, but more downhill also. Post knee surgery PR, really wanted to break nine minute miles, had 23 seconds to the good at the 10 mile mark, faded a bit towards the end, avg. pace. 27 seconds over, 9:02 pace.
Going up the hills towards the dam, could see Sylvie in front of me, almost caught her when she walked for a minute, she then took off and did not see her until we turned down from the dam. Devine Miss M - passed on the dam hills, gave her a high five. I knew her and Sylvie would be after me on the downhill, just cannot run those fast, knee issues. Devine caught me with about a mile to go, made a couple of surges and got back on her heels, made third surge and could not be back to her. If I had this to do over again, would have hung on her heeels as long as possible instead of making surges. On the third surge she was just running too darn fast, I would guess close to 8 minute miles.
The end - came at a good time, out of gas, no kick, hunted for Sylvie, where in the heck was she? After looking for a couple of minutes, here she comes, I must have passed her on the narrow trail at a water stop. I did not stop, drink, take gu - I have no problem running 2 hours without water etc. unless it is super hot.
I did not see the other girls at the end or Davey, hit the pool and hot tub, talked to the lady's (husband) she was on the news for running her 50th marathon today, we had a good chat about all the same marathons we have ran.
All in All - happy with the post-knee PR, running on 15 to 20 miles a week, really can't expect much more. Maybe losing a few pounds will help.
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bike ride 21 miles, parkway, good effort on tired legs, beautiful day, lots of families on the parkway. |
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