One of the challenges of having a blog is having something to write about on a weekly basis. Sometimes lots of things happen during the week, and there’s a whole slate of things to write about. (Whether or not I actually do it is another story.) Then there are those weeks where nothing happens, and [...]
I can’t believe that only a few months ago, January 26 to be exact, I wrote about joining the Ready Freddies for the Ragnar Relay and going for my first five mile run in Long Beach. That run was tough, and it reminded me of how much work I would need to do in order [...]
Every Saturday morning we meet a group of people at different trails around Southern California and go for a long run. Two weekends ago we met at the top of the Reseda Blvd, part of the Santa Monica Mountains, and ran towards the Nike Missile Tower. NO, it’s not a tower made out of running [...]
Last Saturday I ran my first race of the season in Arcadia, the Santa Anita Derby 5K. It’s a three-mile loop that starts at the parking lot, loops around the Los Angeles Arboretum (where the Fantasy Island house is located), and ends at the Santa Anita Racetrack. The finish is actually at the track itself, [...]
This Saturday I am running my first race of the season. It’s been a while since I’ve run a race, the last time being the Xterra Malibu Creek race last year. To celebrate my return to racing I dusted off my old racing flats, the same pair of shoes I wore back in college. I [...]
