| 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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Nice little run north to 48th south and home, nice morning, seen shortwalker, DC and his daughter, and several other runners, nice to get out for Little T.
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Spin watching the Ryder cut, beig colaspe by USA, Woods and Stricker do not do well. I don't understand why Hunter was not picke instead of stricker. Also, why in the heck was Furyck picked, good old boys club. |
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North along JRP, marathon pace miles, speed walk and run, avg pace 10:45, pace I expect to avg at STG. I know, slow on slow, do what you can do. But, expect to be close to that pace, plus or minus a few seconds per mile. Majic of race day would be help.
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Will be off the grid, taking 11 days off, doing the senior games after STG, no internet, maybe that is the best thing, I will be the happy one, finishing the race. Other bloggers will hopefully baske in a PR and get mighty praise, well deserved for their hard work. My journey continues, just one step forward to the next goal, I am going to finish the IM, we have unsettled business. This comment may seem funny, I am glad the race season is coming to an end, the next 7 months will be intense training.
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Where to start, new beginning - two years ago I was done with running marathons, except for the end of an IM. Then, out of the blue, my oldest daughter Jenna and her Husband decided they wanted to run STG. I said ok, I will do it with you. My training was not the typical marathon training, much more cross training than running, saving those legs for race day, only ran one 18 miler and a 20 miler as long runs. Kid in a candy store, could have told my daughter anything, she would have said ok. We took the 4 a.m. bus, kids hoping to win a prize, Jeremy won a gauranteed entery into next year's Stg marathon. That being said, guess I will be running it again next year.
Sitting around a bonfire for 2 and a half hours was fun, did I say fun, well it was fun. The cold wind from the North concerned me that we may have a storm, it turned out to be perfect weather for the race. I ran into Kim and Tom prerace, sweetest couple on the blog, talked to Devine Miss M at the close drop truck, and said hi to QP via Devine. Thanks for worrying about me QP. I knew Devine was going to have a very good race, she did.
Decisions, decisions, could not decide where to line up for the race. This may sound not so good, we started up front being slow runners as I had to arrive at Snow Canyon Blvd in 6 hrs and 13 min, gun time, I was worried about not making the cutoff. I told Jenna and Jeremey we had to start faster the first 4 miles to not clog up other runners, we ran sub 10 min miles and did our best to keep out of the way. After the first 4 miles, had a 36 minute cushion for the cutoff time and did not need to be concerned. At about mile 4, Tom and Kim passed me, Kim commnented that my stride looked painful, it really was not too bad.
I passed Jenna in the dark, she caught me at mile 7, passed her again, she caught me at mile 8, found out later, she stopped for nature calls. I really enjoyed being in the race, race day magic did help. I ran in the dirt about 50% of the race and the left side in a narrow strip, ran fast and walked up the hills. I walked all of diagonal street because of the slant, and then jogged and walked in from there. The announcer called by name my daugher and her husband cheered, we had all finished. It was such a good feeling, not just finishing, but running and training with my kids.
I could go on about the details, I was just so darn happy to be running another marathon, enjoyed it all, just loved it. My time was slow, maybe not even worthy of posting on this fast running blog, but, so what, my good blogging buddies are here. I waited for a few days to post, as the slowest time is last mentioned, that is just fine with me.
Yes, I am going to give it another shot next year, there is fun at the back of the pack, no PRs, but just the same, never give up.
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1,000 commando points to Sylvie for tending our two grandboys while we ran. She was great with the kids making huts, etc.
Note to add, as I was running a lady pulled along side and said look up, bird birds were circling overhead, maybe I really did look bad, no road kill that day. I kinda miss runners talking, some many now run with music.
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