| 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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Brick Day -
Two hours spinning, 400 ball crunches, free weights - one set of curles, bench, two shoulder excercises.
1 mile swimming, backstroke, cut 5 minutes on last week's time
8 miles riding the bike outside.
This will be a tough workout week being out of town on business for couple of days. Always difficult to train while on the road.
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"When an old person says hello, you say hello back, they yell What?" Aile, age 9
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Lite day - spinning 1 hr & crunches.
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New shoes, broke out a new pair of shoes. Early morning, 4:20 start, beautiful morning with a light cloud cover. Now, for most of the runners on this blog, 10 minute miles would be like taking a nap while running. Ran 10 min. miles this morning for the 8 miles, felt like I was flying, ha ha. The last 2 years have really been a test of will to keep running, stay in shape, look forward, etc. The mental part of going from a runner, two years ago, who was in the top 10% at marathons, to the bottom 10% has been tough.
I write the entry, only for one reason, keep myself looking forward, what can I do better the next day.
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Crunches and Upper body circuit weights. Have lost 3 pounds so far, biggest loser contest, 7 pounds to go. The next two days will be tough while on the road.
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2 hours spinning at the hotel gym, 1/2 mile swim in the lap pool, 200 crunches. The hotel was over booked, ended up in a hospitality sweete for Bosie Blaze.
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30 minutes spinning, 100 crunches
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Spinning, 1 hours, 300 crunches, upper body free weights, nice lite workout.
Scary Night - coming home from Boise, - wind sheer at the SLC airport, the pilot pulled up at the last second as the wing almost hit the ground, bumpy, bumpy ride, several passengers were up chucking. The pilot circled and tried again - aborted earlier this time, we then went to Rock Springs and landed. My nerves and several other passengers were shot, flying for that night was done. Five of us rented a SUV and drove back to Salt Lake. My co-workers on the trip kept telling me everything would be ok, they rode the plane back. I don't think they had the same view as me, how close the wing was to hitting the ground.
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Not so funny Stewardess - she announced as we sat on the Rock Springs runway that no one was getting off the plane, it was "illegal and against the law" . The pilot let us off after few moments to wait in the small airport. As I got off the plane, I told the pilot and stewardness, I was not getting back on, the pilot said he would work on getting me a ride. As we sat in the airport, the stewardness said: "it is illegal and against the law to not get back on the plane".
Anyway, I would have sat all night and caught a bus if needed, no getting back on that plane.
Good to be back home and safe. The pillot said it was the worst attempt at landing for him in his 11 years as a pilot.
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Bountiful Triathlon (14 Miles) 01:09:00, Place overall: 98, Place in age division: 3 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 6.10 |
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370 in the race, placed 98th overall, 50th on the bike, 113th on the run, and 271st on the swim. My swimming needs some major work.
Reverse Triathlon - run 3.1 or 2 bike 10 or so miles and swim 350 yards. Except for the swim, the course was not santioned, certified, etc. Rain and triathlons seem to go together, this make both my Tris- rainy mornings.
Pre-race: Triathletes arrive early, way early, like 1.5 to 2 hours early before the race. The reason, getting the choice spot for the bike transistion. This may seem silly, but, a race can be won or lost in transistion. We, me and my support crew, Sylvie, arrived 90 minutes early. I got one of the last prime spots on the bike rack.
The run - Tris are different starts than running races, except for the first 20 or 30, runners are content to run a consistent pace and save legs and energy for the bike and swim. They are still working hard, but, not likely to go out too fast and burn out. I lined up about 3 rows back at the start. From scanning the crowd, it appeared that about 300 were starting the race, we'll see how close my estimate after the offical results hit the web. The race started with a count down, 5, 4 and so on, ran hard the first half mile to ensure no clogging the lane for other runners. The run was a good effort, 7: 50 first mile and did not catch other markers. Sylvie thought I was 27:09, if so, the course must have been long, the effort and pace felt like about a 26 flat. A Garmin wearer said 3.2 run. Sylvie ran be in the last 100 years of the run, really helped.
Run to bike transistion - about 1: 20 - changed the shoes, etc. rather quickly, my legs were shakey from the run, walked the bike out of transistion to catch my breath. It took about 1/4 mile to get my biking legs.
Bike - this was fun, passed about 30 on the bike, a younger guy, about 30ish, passed me, I passed him back, he gave me a hand signal to stay on his wheel indicating we would work together. We alternated leading and passing bikers. He gave me a big pat on the back as we entered the bike to swim transisition and said good job. It is always fun to pass runners and bikers. The best pass, we passed a Tri-guy decked out in full garb, Tour De France jersey and shorts, very expensive bike, we blew by him, he tried to hang on my wheel, would have none of that, gapped him and did not let me hang on.
Bike to Swim Transisiton - Tender Feet, transision went well, except, forgot to take off my sun glasses, hand them to a race offical as I entered the pool area. The bike to pool run was about 50 yrds on asphalt an cement, my feet did not like.
Swim - wild swim, I was too pooped to dive into the pool, hopped in the pool, did the first 25 free and the rest of the 350 backstroke, about 6 swimmers passed me, darn. I hit my head twice on the pool side, ouch. As I exited the pool area, it was crazy in the pool, each of the 13 lanes have 5 to 6 swimmers, chaos, glad to not be in the masses for the swim.
Race summary - low energy day, Sylvie thinks it was based on stress from the airplane ride, very happy with toughing out the race on not my best day. Got a placque for 3rd in the 55 and older division, missed second by 30 seconds, first by 8 minutes. The goal has been set, improve my swim by 5 minutes next year, learn free style.
A little whine: I feel bad for a couple of the gentlement in my divsion that were 60 or older, being lumped into a 55 and older division. I feel the same way for the 15 and under division, how does a 5 year old compete with a 15 year old. Anyway, it seems older runners don't get enough respect, awards are called out last, few cheers from the crowd that is left. We may not have these great races today if it were not for the older runners keeping and pushing the sport to stay alive.
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