| 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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Following a taper program that calls for a 11 to 13 mile run one week before the marathon. Kept a very even pace except for two miles where a runner was trying to pass me. I held him off for 1.5 miles, I think was the chaser and kept pretty much on his heels until he stopped. I still had another 4.5 miles to go. Recovered from the goofing around with the other runner and got right back on an even pace. Avg. pace 8:30 for the run.
We, me and Sylvia, RSVPed for both the TOU and ST. George Pasta parties. I hope all the injuries of bloggers a healing quick and everyone is feeling better as we move towards the fall marathons.
After all the years of running, somewhat nervous, Provo River Half predicts s 3:16 at TOU, 3:10:57 at St.George. I have not not broken 3:10 at St. George since 1999. From reading Michelle's Spanish Half, I am going for it at TOU and trust my conditioning. Try and stay on pace for a 1:35 first half. I will need to see what pace that works out at per mile. It sounds exciting, but, also scary. But, no guts, no glory. Sasha, is certainly right on, it is always hang on the last few miles regardless of the first twenty.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Run in the dark, easy miles. The dark is dark, today, crossing a long foot bridge over a swampy area, strange noise of rustling in the trees. It was real loud and weird and sounded like it was coming after me. Blair witch project 2. Anyway picked up the pace. I then had a problem. Either go back the same way I came past the scary noise or run 2 miles out of my way on the city streets home. I was brave, had my peper spray and was ready. I heard the rustling again on the way back. I sure it was likely a creature of some sort. Too much excitement for an early morning run. |
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| Early morning run, took a different route today, hopefully avoid the Black Forest Creature. No creatures today. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| The taper continues, it is weird to only run 3 miles. It is predicted to be 40 degrees at the start of TOU, Hardware Ranch, chilly. |
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Top of Utah Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:27:12, Place overall: 120, Place in age division: 4 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 26.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.20 |
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I start by saying congradulations to all the fast, fast, and super fast blogger that ran the race, very impressed with the team work, unselfishness, etc. Awesome group of runners.
I don't know what to say when in the posting a blog as compared to the great runners on the blog.
The arrival in Logan did not go as planned, we got there in time to attend the pasta party, but, Sylvia had some issues we needed to attend to.
The race, great weather, started out at a 7:15 pace for the first 5 miles. At that point, just didn't feel like I had it in my legs to hold that pace to mile 16. Decided to save it for St. George. Ran a very smooth race to mile 18, then the work started. If you have not ran TOU, one of the toughest hang on courses I have ran. The last 8 are constant up or down, or so it feels. Very tough when your legs are tired.
My last three marathons, St.George, Salt Lake and Ogden have been hampered with injuries and sickness with a result in over 4 hour marathons. I was very happy today to finish under 8 minute miles, BQ, and 4th in my division (120th out of 1915 finishers). Received a moose trophy, cool, Sylvia (4:01) also took 4th in her division and got a moose trophy. Sylvia was also concerned about St.George and did not give it everything. It was fun, we had our pictures taken together and had a grand old time watching all the fast bloggers get big moose trophies.
One kind of funny story, when I was about 50 yards from the finish I raised both arms in the air with excitement in breaking 8 minutes miles all the way to the finish. (This is now a tradition for me and Lybi when we run races) When I crossed the line, a young lady volunteer said she thought I was going to do cartwheels.
I have not looked up the predictor for St. George, but, I am confident that I can give 3:15 a shot.
thanks to the well wishers on the blog, Sarah, Lybi, James, Clay, Maria, Kerry, James, Michael and others. It really helps to have the support.
One last kind of weird note - I ran my first marathon in 1982 in the exact same time, to the second. Not bad, for an old time runner.
Stay cool, B of BS Rools out.
Garmin stats: 2272 feet of ascent, 3290 feet of decent - interesting, only a little over 1,000 feet of decent. It tells me the course was a little tougher than I expected if this is right. Also, the Garmin had me running 26.41 miles. Darn, where did I run the extra distance? It really says how important running the tangents can be.
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