| 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 | | 49.19 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 54.19 |
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| Early morning recovery run, ran north along the Jordan Parkway to Garner Village and home. 8:55 pace. Left hamstring a little sore after the race yesterday. Got some real nice comments from bloggers on the race, thanks to all. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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Early morning run along the parkway, 8miles at 8:45 pace. Nothing exciting to report today. One spooky thing, along the darkest part of the trail, ran into to hispanic males walking along the trail, odd for 5 a.m. I had my pepper spray with me. Murray has had some graffetti problems this summer. Legs seem to be recovering well from the race on saturday.
5 minutes on the exercise bike warmup, 1 mile on the treadmill, upper body circuit weights.
Interesting, it is so fun after a race to read all the comments by bloggers on their race and the support of other bloggers. Nice way to share the experiences of the races. Cool. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.35 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.35 |
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Black Sheep Workout today and liberty park. Yasso 800's, 1 mile warmup, 8 x 800 at marathon pace with a couple minute job between 800s. 1 mile cool down with Harry, Colleen and Sheldon. The first couple of 800's were tough and I felt that I may not be able to complete the workout. Was able to shake the cob webs from the 1/2 marathon on saturday and finished the workout in good fashion. Averaged a 3:20 to 3:25 for each 800. This is faster than marathon pace. It seemed the everyone was doing them faster than marathon pace. There may have bee a few runners at the front that could run 6 minute miles for a marathon given the pace they were running the 800s.
The group runs are very challenging, mentally rewarding and have a group goal atmosphere. John Straley mentioned today that the group greatly helped in break three hours in the marathon last year. No way is the a goal this year for me. But, if I can be somewhere close to 7:30 pace I would be very happy.
Anyway, thanks to the Black Sheep.
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| Day Off, old legs tired and need a rest. It seems after about 10 days of running in a row, I am always due for rest day. It is tough for me, we always need to keep the weekly mileage total up there. It is funny how every runner, from last to first in the race wants to know how they placed. Runners hug the results like a long lost friend. I am no different, I have waited for the results of the Provo River Half marathon to post. Yes, 57th overall. I was quite surprised. Happy days. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
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State Capital, up to City Creek Canyon, up 3.5 miles and back down. Ran with Colleen, Sheldon and Tony today. Beautiful morning, white clouds with stars shining in the sky. As I have a 20 miler tomorrow, ran fairly conservative except for pushing hard over the last 50 yards of the second real steep hill. Also, ran a 6:30 mile for the last mile down the canyon.
*Note, leg strength getting better over the steep hills, I could have not done the 50 yard surge over the last steep part of the hill with the same intensity a month ago. Also, downhill 6:30 pace on the gentle downhill felt smooth.
Sheldon indicates we were 4 minutes faster today than a few months ago.
Lunch time, 5 minutes warmup on exercise bike, upper body weights and hamstring (exercise ball).
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 17.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.21 |
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Early morning run with Slyvia, we got a late start and cut the 20 mile planned run a little short. Sylvia had a conference call. Anyway, 17 was long enough as we have both been hitting the training hard. If we don't get into Hobblecreek we will run a long run next saturday.
I am coming to realize that I need a little more rest as I get older, Half marathon race last saturday, the next tuesday speed workout yasso 800s, thursday city creek uphill hard run of 9 miles and then expect a great 20 miler on friday. I really never want to admit it, I just don't recover like I did 20 years ago. All in fun, another fun run in the morning. I may run with the Locomotion Running Club.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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Early morning run, 8 miles at 8:37 pace, last mile 7:20. Several running clubs, groups, doing long runs on the parkway today. (Locamotion, SLC Track Club, Team in Training) I seen several runners I know in these clubs. Sheldon's wife was manning (womening) one of the aid stations. I stopped and talked to her a few moments.
One odd thing, do runners really care how the look and what they wear when running? I see some runners who look like they just posed for Runner's World Magazie and other runners who look like they just ran out of the homeless shelter. Should we judge runners on appearance and dress? If so, what would be the judging rools? Maybe as follows:
Your not a real runner if:
1. Your socks are higher than you ankles
2. Your girls have never seen a jog bra (Sylvia's)
3. If you wear the race shirt during the race
4. Your running shoes have holes in them
5. You own no "cool max"
6. You wear you race number on your back
7. You wear sweats in the middle of the summer to run
8. Your running shorts hang below your ankles
9. Your on a 5 mile run with a camel back and an ammo belt with 10 small bottles.
10. You can't see your running shoes to tie them, beer belly guys.
11. You run on the left side of the trail
12. You run with a foursome during a race, 4 abreast.
13. You measure your PR for a 5K in hours, not minutes.
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