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Kokepelli Sprint Triathlon

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MURRAY,UT,US

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Jan 01, 2006

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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"

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Bricker workout, simulated for next sat. Tri. Rode spin bike hard for 36 minutes, hopped off and ran to the never bear and home (3 miles mainly on dirt trail), good effort, avg. pace 8:10, heart rate up. Unusual that my knees let me run fast enough to feel the heart rate above 155. This was a confidence builder for next saturday, rode the spinner 48 minutes cooldown.

I have two concerns for next saturday, getting kicked when swimming, and passing bikers. I expect that I will be one the last swimmers out of the water, but, one of the fastr bikers, always nervous dicey passing bikers.

Stay kool, B of Bs rools out

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Biking, 1 hr, 16 minutes, good effort.  Weight workout, ice cream -

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Brick - 12 miles in 32 minutes, spinning at 22.5 mph, hoppped off, hopped on treadmill, 3.1 miles at 8:27 pace and 2% grade.   Nice little workout.   Treadmill chart conversion incline converts to 8:04 pace.  

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Rode sag wagon with Sylive on the the bike, she ran a tough 20 miles from our condo up to the top of west canyon and back.  She is tough, expect her to have a good STG for her last marathon. 

Stay Kool, B of BSRools out

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Race: Kokepelli Sprint Triathlon (16 Miles) 01:47:13, Place overall: 244, Place in age division: 3
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High Anxiety - first open water Tri, did one previous open water swim.  This was an experience to the 10th degree.  We arrirved at Sand Hallow to find out we needed to haul all the Tri gear for a mile up to the transition area, Sylvie helped me lug the gear.  *note for the future, get a back pack and ride the bike. 

Transisiton Setup - found a nice spot with good spacing, laid out my stuff in order, chatted with the other two bikers about what a good setup we had for transistion, so we thought, read on.

My swim wave was at 9:40, waves 10 minutes apart, we watched the Olympic distancers go and go, two laps around the course, from the shore, sure looked like a long swim.   My time drew closer and closer, my nerves were going wild, like the start of  a downill 5k, with 20 minutes to go, Sylvie helped me get on the wet suit, no easy task.  It was hot waiting the next few minutes in rubber suit, with the heat of the day rising.  Finally, we we called to the starting area, yellow swim caps and all.   Once the swim starts you cannot tell swimmers apart, our heads just bobbing. 5,4, 3, 2 1, goooo-  started at the back, only got kicked ten or fifteen times, none in head.  My swimming technique went to heck, to survival mode, waves, thrashing the first 100 yrds.  Wow, was I tired after the first couple hundred yards, took a ten second break on my back and got my breathing back in order, made the next marker and turned to shore, yea, I was burning up way too much energy, this is the longest non-stop swim ever.  I am not sure how I placed in my wave either second or third dead last of dead last, at least not dead.  I was pooped, walked up the boat ramp, when I started jogging, teh crowd started cheering, they were great, stripped off the wet suit and started trotting for my bike.  Now, remember that neat transistion setup, 3 other bikers had crowded in, it was a mess, took way too long getting things going for the bike, ate a cliff shot and headed out. 

The bike was my best leg, starting passing bikers right away.  I was worried about the 11/23 cassette, thought I would get hammered on the hill, powered right up passing bikers, I only got passed by one biker, got chicked by a gal named Lezlie, she would the womens sprint race.  Happy with the bike portion, the new Cervelo P2C was great.

The run, legs were dead, used up too much energy on the swim, it was survial to the finish, 3.3 miles felt terrible, toughed it out and sprinted the last fifty yards to the finish.  Sylvie said I placed 3rd in div.  We did not stick around for the awards, was too darn hot at the finish, 90 degrees or so for the run. 

Lessons learned - swim more, swim more and then swim some more, get lessons, cannot trash the legs on the swim and expect to have a good run portion, get faster on the transition, wasted a couple of minutes.  

Over all - happy that I was not claimed by King Neptune of the deep, much respect to triathletes, they are tough, took me down a peg or two, good lesson to get me focused.

1,000 Commando points for Sylvie supporting me, taking pictures. 

Stay Kool, Bof BS Rools out

Race Stats:  big room for improvement  -  goal next year, take off 15 mintues

Swim 23:37 -

T1 - 3:49

Bike - 42:35

T2 - 2:10

Run 35:07

 

165 out of 210 males

244 out of 373 overall in sprint

 

 

 

 

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