Hey! Yes, I’m still here. Life has been good, but super busy. Here’s a quick recap of the last 2.5 months – in running and non-running news: August: I paced the 2:20 group at the Brazen Summer Breeze Half Marathon,…
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Out With the Old, In With the New
This weekend was a big one – I bought a new car and sold my old one! Angela saw my tweet about getting a good price on my new car ($1200 under invoice) and asked me to share my secrets,…
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Reassessing
So, those of you who follow me on Strava probably already know that I’m not training for Kaiser as a goal race anymore. Even before I went to Taipei, I had a feeling that my fitness wasn’t at the level…
2017: Year in Running
Greetings from Taiwan, and Happy (belated) New Year! I’ve been here for about 11 days already, but I haven’t had much time to blog until now. I hope everyone’s 2018 has been off to a good start so far. Even…
There and Back Again
I went out of town last week for work – hence the lack of blog posting. Even though I’m entering my 8th week at my new job, I’m still considered quite a newbie and doing lots of training. Last week,…
The Upside to Being Mediocre
Hey y’all. It’s me again. Second post this week! I’ll wait for you to pick your jaw off the ground. I had another mini-post brewing in my mind so I thought I’d write it while it was still fresh. Before…
Thoughts
Hi! I really liked the microblogging from last week, so here I am again. There are two topics I wanted to address: Why do running shoe companies change their shoes in adverse ways? I know “adverse” is subjective, but I…
Lately
Wow, has it been 3+ weeks since I last posted? I’ve been busy, but not with running. Here’s a quick run through of what’s been going on: I paced the 2:30 group at the Tiburon Half Marathon. This was the…
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Low Risk, Low Reward
So, I’m going to start by talking about travel, but end with running. Feel free to stop/start reading wherever your interests lie (lay?). Back in June, the Gypsy Runner and I went to Mexico. There was an amazing Travelzoo deal…
Building Back Up
After CIM and the “2016: Year of PR Attempts”, I decided to approach 2017 with a more organic, laissez faire approach to running. My general goals were to keep running 3-4 times a week and to be able to pull…
Running Tangents 