The Tao of Me

Over the weekend I visited the Stanford Dish Trail in Palo Alto, a popular recreational trail that I used to visit regularly, but haven’t had the opportunity to frequent as often as I’d like over the past few years. Since I often recommend it my fellow Bay Area runners I thought I’d do a pictorial [...]

Last week was the 21st week of the year. Random fact, I know, but I tend to be full of them. I usually write these posts at the end of the week but the laziness of the long weekend took over so I’m playing a little catch up. Sunday Donut Run! Monday AM: I rode [...]

While I was marathon training I pretty much let myself eat whatever I wanted – within reason of course. But I didn’t count calories. I was burning so many calories that I really didn’t see the need to. For a week and half after the race, I allowed myself to over-indulge with all kinds of [...]

I got up super early on Sunday morning and venture to the City to meet some of my favorite Bay Area runners for the second Donut Run! (I missed the first one when I was at Spring Training in March.) {downtown San Francisco} While most everyone else ran 14 miles (from the Ferry Building, across [...]

Sunday Bay to Breakers Sadly, it felt like a long run to me. When I got home from the race I felt like I had run 20-miles and spent the rest of day planted on the couch (I do this a lot). Monday AM: It was supposed to be a Rest Day but I was [...]

It’s Thursday evening and I just got home from a long day. I just had a very productive session with my shrink (yes, I have a shrink…the world would a happier place if more people saw shrinks). I had every intention of pulling a two-a-day and doing a circuit training workout tonight. My calfs are [...]

I have lived in the Bay Area since 1998 and not once have I ever had the desire to participate in Bay to Breakers. While it’s amusing to watch the debauchery, it’s never fun to be in it. After realizing that last year was the 99th running of this race, I decided that I would [...]

After taking 9, count ‘em NINE days off after the marathon, I resumed my workouts earlier this week: Tuesday 45-minutes on the elliptical. I seriously hate the elliptical almost as much as the treadmill. I would have died of boredom, except I was so happy just to break a sweat again. Wednesday Feeling energized and [...]