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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"

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Easy early morning run, south along the Jordan Parkway until the trails meets 700 W.  Legs are still feeling funny from the friday leg weight workout.  8:55 pace as compared to 9:09 yesterday. for the same distance. 

We all have our shoe stories, find those magic shoes that are just right for the marathon, these shoes feel like they don't have enough cushioning, these shoes feel like too much, these shoes are too tight, the story goes on.  Anyway, I have found my magic shoes, green, luck of the Irish.  I bought these shoes over ebay and they came with no insert.  I took an insert out of a pair of Asics and put in these Nike Air Zoom Elite, magic.  Anyway, I hope magic. 

May have a tough week running, on the road to Kansas City for a couple of days.

I had a thought today, based on a comment by Lybi that I could not be the only clumsy runner.  I will give you one my favorite stories of hitting the dust while running:

Hawaii, NikeTown Wednesday Night Run - I have been to Hawaii several times, each time we always make it a point to run the Wed. Nike Town Run with local runners.  It is more like a race for 7 or 8 miles.  This Wed. night, about 2 years ago, Gerry Lindgren was leading the fun run, I quickly got along side him and gave him the fan stuff about how great he was, yada, yada, yada, and I got his autograph at the Salt Lake Marathon.  This Wed. night run, the girls cross country team from Xavier was there for a meet.  Gerry was leading them in a fartlek workout.  Well, I decided that I would try and do the workout with them.  The first two pickups, about 6 min mile pace I hung with the group.  I then started to fade.  As I started to fade, a local runner (looked like he was 20 years older than me) passed me and said "I am slowing down at any time",  I took this as a smart"A" comment and that gave me motivation to take chase.  I was ten yards behind, chasing him along the sidewalk on Alomoana Bld, he was coming up on two ladies on the side walk and he yelled coming thru.  The two ladies split apart like the red sea, (I thought they would stay split apart and saw me also), the red sea came back together as fast as it came apart.  I had about two steps to make my move to the right off the sidewalk, I caught my left foot on a tree root, going a 6 min. pace, and did a dive that may have scored an 8.  A quickly got up almost without losing pace to chase the guy in front of me.  He beat me back to NikeTown, he did not even say good race or anything.  I was soom the center of attention with blood running down my leg from a would along the side of the knee.  (Good part of the story), two girls felt sorry for me and proceed to clean up the wound.  *Note, I am a crazy and clumsy runner at times.  Other stories to follow each week. 

 

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Comments
From Michael on Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 19:10:16

Hope they were pretty girls that cleaned your wound

Ive met Gerry Lindgren, he went to Washington State University where I went to school

From Lybi on Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:58:22

I thought you were going to say that you knocked those two ladies over like bowling pins. It would've made a great story...eventually. Plus they may have cushioned the fall. Just kidding. Very chivalrous.

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