| 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 | | 14.44 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 25.25 | 42.79 |
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Early moring, rode 31 miles, converted to 7.75 running. Ran a little over a mile around a grass loop area on the parkway. The pace on the grass was 9 min miles, slow, but no knee pain. Two uplifting things appeared during the run:
From riding and then runnng on the grass, 9 min miles, I am going to do my runs on the grass to get ready for St.George. I can do it. St.George may be slow, the lights may be shut out fandango, the finish line may be gone, but, I will finish.
Second uplifting thing: Stopped and talked to Demetrio for about 10 minutes, words from the Utah running legend are always uplifing. I can't share his words of wisdom, but, they sure worked on me.
Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out
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Bike commute, 26.5 miles, the ride home was tiring in the heat against the south wind. Just like I like it. I passed several other commuter bikers, they looked cooked. Interesting running chat at work, three runners ran WBR, 2 just got back from Grandma's marathon. I have kind of had an unoffical contest with myself, and Brett and Frank, they did not beat my 3:24 at grandmas, they ran a 3:36 and 3:44. Always fun to compare running notes. Wood chips Liberty Park in the morning.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.27 |
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Happy Entry: 5 loops around the wood chip trial at Liberty Park, slow pace. But, just darn happy to run the 5 loops without stopping and not have trouble. Likely, could have went another lap. Plan, add another loop each week. Colleen was so nice to pace me the last lap, she is a real good friend.
Stay Kool, how many chucks can a wood chip chuck, B of BS Rools out |
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Commute bike miles today, 26 miles, ride home was hot and into a head wind, just my kind of run, with the Silver Bullet Band.
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P.S. I want to run the WBR next year, I will be on the F team if needed,don't care, just want to get in shape and do it. I did the 100 peace officer relay many years ago, all business, we won the corporate division, sponsored by my employer.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.02 |
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Wood Chip Run - Liberty Park - nice morning, transients were missing, uneventful morning run, except for getting wet from spinklers.
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Bike ride 8 miles, converted to 2 miles. I am going to run the Utah Arts Festival 5k in the morning with Sylvie and my grandson. It will be his first real kids race, he is so excited. Maybe I can be coach gramps. If he likes running I am going to buy him a pair of good running shoes and have some fun running with him.
It is funny how goals change overnight, my goal this year was to run under 3:10 at St. George, now just be able to run it. My time goals have gone out the window, just want to be back in the game. I never realized how hard 8 min miles could be after a 3 month layoff. Breaking 8 min. miles is my goal for the 5K.
Positive vibes: Quit caffine two weeks ago, have not cheated once. Next positive vibe to seek, lose 8 pouunds by the end of July. I am a nervous eater, nervous like a cat when I cannot run, bike, hike or something. I am going to make myself a vision board.
Stay Kool, good running to all those bloggers running long runs tomorrow or races, B of BS Rools out
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Art Attack 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:24:46, Place in age division: 7 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 5.60 |
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PreRace: The Art Attack is a different sort of race, seems to start or end at a different place each year. Two years ago, the race was short a tenth, this year the course was long about a ½ tenth long, go figure.
We got the race a little early to meet the boy, Alecks Jr., 5 years look running his first race, big time 5K, big time for him. Alecks was getting coaching form 5 adults, good for him, didn’t listen. Just ran.
1K Kids Race: Watching a kid’s race is so much fun. The start was like watching a herd of cats, kids have a tough time running a straight line. Alecks, tough start, hits the asphalt ten yards into the ace, tough kid, fast back to his feet, no crying for the big boy. Stars rising: Jeff Straley’s daughter won the girls’s kid race last year and was back to defend her title, she was ready. She took second, the first girl smoked all the boys and girls, by my calculation, ran 6:45 pace for the 1K at 8 years old. Back to Alecks, Sylvie runs with him, holding his hand to keep him from another dive. He does great the rest of the race. He was so excited, about the first thing he said, I want to run another race. I may have another marathoner in the family.
5K: After the kids race, Sylvie has to go back to the truck for her IPod, we almost miss the start, 30 seconds to spare.. We lined up 3 rows back, a little too close to the front. The race starts, cold start with no warm up, not quite sure yet if I dare warm up. After the first block, ahead of Sylvie, she catches me and passes, I pass her back on the next block. The question, can I hold her off? I quickly move the far left to ensure my right leg was not on the down slope, ever so slight. I settled into an 8 min. mile pace, trying to break 8 minute miles. We enter Liberty Park and are funneled onto the cement path for about 40 yards. Not long after entering Liberty Park, the leaders are heading back. After making the turnaround, about 30 seconds on Sylvie. The finish stretch, what a long 5K, it felt way long, Garmin measured it about 3.18. When your out of race shape, one extra foot seems like a long race. Now hears the rub, my goal was to break 8 min. miles, I look at the clock, 2 seconds under, Amber, Aleck’s mother yells at me to turnaround for a picture, I get out of order in the shoot, race time has me seven seconds over. I will take the 2 seconds under, goal met. Next goal, run 20 miles this week and take 30 seconds off the 5K time next Friday.
Come back trail is darn tough, gotta love it, Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out
P.S. rode the bike 11.2 miles after we got home. Coverted to 2.5 miles running, also, Sylvie won an entry into the 5K at next year's Salt Lake Marathon, hope we can trade up to the half marathon. Alecks won a shirt in a drawing, goog post race food, fun morning.
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