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Hobble Creek Half Marathon

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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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Spin 5 hours, with marathon looming, needs some serious cardio work. The PGA, very entertaining today. Heavy early week training with taper for Hobble.

Ball flexibilty stretches for the shoulders, wall squats, ball crunches with pull over 15 pound weights, bridges - work those core muscles. Legs actually feel good for 5 hours of spinning.

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Stars abright, pretty morning, nice temps, ususual to see so many stars.

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Spin 1 hour -

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Lunch time ride on the Tri with Dianamal,  4 x 2 min. intervals, getting use to the aero bars, today felt better than saturday.   It is great to have good friends on the blog, it is good to feel special sometimes.  If I could grant all the running wishes in the world, my blogging friends would always cross the finish line with a smile. 

Surprise Surprise, Sylive wanted to attend a spinning class tonight, was fun and a good workout. Kelly, the instructor, big time biker hill climber, always gives us Rock Star treatment, without Nickel Back, when we show up, always askes about races, and hypes our marathon running, kind of funny.  It is also kind of weird, annomitty is sometimes best.  Hill climb routine, 21.6 miles.  Kelley rides with one of the pro teams when he goes to California, sponsored by Giant. 

 

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Bike 24 miles, taper for saturday, lite day -

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Ran with Milly for a short time today, she was kind, didn't talk much, she just listened.  Taper City for Hobble.  I may ride a couple of miles later.  Its later, spin 51 minutes, 50 ball crunches with overhead weights, 1 set bench press, ect. ball stretches, 1 wall sqaut, lite day workout. 

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Easy Day, 600 yrds swimming, half free and back.

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Race: Hobble Creek Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:54:06, Place overall: 475, Place in age division: 12
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Hobble the Hobble, going into this race, somewhat beat up from the race a couple of weeks ago and did not know what to expect.  As usual, the race started an hour late, me and
Sylvie lined up about 12 rows from the front.  Last year, lined up in the back and expended too much effort getting around runners, running side by side.  Well, make the runners pass me this time.   Pre - race stuff, talked to the Straley brothers, talked to Tina about old race times with Leno.  We found a nice place on the hill side, close to bushes, and with soft tree bark for setting.  Enjoyed the people watching.  

The start, no warmup, save it for the race.   Ran the first four miles, hit mile 4 at 31:58, not fast, but fast for me.  These are the easiest miles, the next four miles my goal was to stay under 9 min miles, goal met, the last 4 miles were a grind, the pace, given my limited running, was ambitious.   Funny, a few old guys were cheering for the old guy at mile 8, I looked around, it was me.   Avg. pace for the race 8:43, a post knee surgery PR for the have, 4 minutes faster than the Ogden Half, happy with the effort, it would have been nice to hold on longer.   I almost caught Sylive going up the hill after mile ten, got within 20 yrds, she crested the hill and was gone.   I have her 2 to 1 in half marathons this year. 

Reverse Brick Day - rode 24 miles on the bike when we got home, tiring ride, but needed. 

Positive about the race, was not last, don't know my div. or overall placing, left shortly after the race.   Sylvie was upset, the shirt sizes suck again for women, this unisex stuff just does not work well. 

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12th in div.  24 in div.

475th overall,  1187 total finishers

 

 

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