It’s rare indeed that I run a race with headphones; the few times I’ve gone the musical accompaniment route is when I’m doing multiple loops on a course. But training runs are a different story. Runs during the week almost always involve me donning a pair of airline supplied freebie headphones and hitting “shuffle” on […]
Let this be a lesson to me — I skipped the finisher staged photo at the San Francisco Marathon as I was 100% sure I wasn’t going to buy any photo packages. And then today I found out Saucony was sponsoring free downloads of photos, albeit with their logo emblazoned in the corner. Well, more […]
I wasn’t thrilled with yesterday’s post. I think the point I was trying to convey with regards to running is that I sometimes have certain expectations and experiences that should make a run go one way or the other… but very often it can go completely opposite to what I thought was going to be […]
Opting to avoid a red light, I turned left. Despite the seeming vistas of Santa Fe, there are inclines to be sure… and I wound up going up a fairly steady, steep one by turning. On the plus side, I came across a former rail line converted into a bike trail. It was a great […]
The San Francisco Marathon through the years: 8/3/2008: 5:02:20 6/16/2013: 3:28:49 7/31/2016: 3:28:42 I can neither confirm nor deny the whereabouts of my heart, but I know I left seven seconds in San Francisco.
This morning I laced up my shoes and went for a SLOW 6 mile run here in Santa Fe, NM. It’s sometimes nice to do a scouting run when you first arrive in a town for a multi-day stay. You get a little lay of the land, spot a few things to check out or […]
My brother and I are road tripping to Santa Fe, NM. It’s a 12.5 hour drive. I suggested the car versus flying. As we enter my third day of driving long distances post SF up and back, maybe that wasn’t the best suggestion. Still, it’s nice to hang out with my bro. I’ve packed running […]
It was a dreary, overcast day. Fog enveloped the Golden Gate Bridge in what might as well have been outtakes from “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” So much so, that I wouldn’t have been surprised if an ape swung down and snatched a runner or two along the way! The majority of my […]
It was a LONG drive to San Francisco. An hour sitting to pay a toll and get over the bridge. The last thirty miles took two hours. Yeesh. Trying to find parking for the expo down at the Marina Center proved challenging, a series of snarling one way streets, spaces that may or may not […]
I forgot to charge my Garmin watch last night so I knew at some point during today’s run it would fade into oblivion. I ran a route I know quite well, the mile marker points ingrained in my soul and the soles of my shoes. I knew I was slow and didn’t really need a […]