While planning my long runs for CIM, I considered signing up for the Berkeley Half Marathon. On the list of Pros: 2 weeks before CIM, when I had a fast finish long run on the schedule anyway local race easy…
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Race Recap: Berkeley Half Marathon
Tagged with: Berkeley Half, CIM, friends, half marathon, hills, race photos, race recap
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Weekly Recap: Turkey Trot, MAF Test #5-ish & Holy Hills!
That title is quite a mouthful, eh? Or maybe I should say it’s an eyeful. In keeping with the random theme from my last post, this past week’s running has also been quite out of the ordinary. On Tuesday, I…
Tagged with: friends, hills, Lake Chabot, MAF, MAF Test, trail running, training, Turkey Trot
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Recovery: A Tale of Two Marathons
Earlier in the year, when I first realized that I’d only have 5 weeks between the Oakland and Big Sur Marathons, I was a little scared. Would I be recovered and ready run another marathon in a relatively short amount…
Race Recap: 2014 Big Sur International Marathon
On April 27th, I ran the Big Sur International Marathon, a.k.a., marathon #4. Usually, I’m eager to write a recap and analyze every little detail and feeling I had during the race. This time, however, I felt fairly satisfied with…
Race Recap: 2014 Oakland Marathon
Why I wanted to run this race & Goals: Discussed in detail here and here, but the basic gist is that I decided to run the Oakland Marathon about 2 months ago because I thought it would be fun and…
Race Recap: ITR Woodside Ramble Half Marathon
Why I wanted to run this race: For my birthday, the Gypsy Runner suggested that he pay for race entries so that we could run a race together, which I thought was a *perfect* idea. Coincidentally, Inside Trail was offering…
Tagged with: Gypsy Runner, half marathon, hills, Huddart Park, Inside Trail Racing, race recap, race swag, trail racing, Wunderlich Park
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Race Recap: Skirt n’ Dirt 25K
One of my goals/resolutions of 2013 was to run a 30K trail race. Sort of arbitrary, right? Well, the goal wasn’t to necessarily run 30K — it was to race a distance between a half and a full marathon on…
Tagged with: 2013 Goals, hills, race recap, race swag, Redwood Regional, Skirt N Dirt 25K, trail racing
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Weekly training recap: SF2HM Week 3
*SF2HM = San Francisco 2nd Half Marathon Mon: REST. Tues: I like to plan easy runs for Tuesdays, because for whatever reason, I consistently have the worst runs on Tuesdays. I can think of several reasons for this: I usually…
Tagged with: hills, mile repeats, photos, progressive, Redwood Regional, running, SF2HM, stretching, tempo, training
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Race Recap: Drag-N-Fly 10K*
*Like almost all of Brazen’s races, the distances are the closest approximation to conventional road races. This course, we were told, was 6.61 miles. Why I wanted to run this race: Ever since running the Bad Bass race last year,…
Tagged with: 10K, Antioch, Brazen, Drag-N-Fly, Gypsy Runner, hills, photos, races, trail
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Race Recap: Golden Gate Trail Run 2012
I think this is my most delayed race recap EVER, but a little thing called “vacation” got in the way. I finally have a bit of downtime (digesting Peking duck while the rest of the family is playing games), so…
Tagged with: Coastal Trail Runs, Golden Gate Trail Race, hills, Marin, photos, races, trail
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Running Tangents 