The Tao of Me

In one sentence: Everything went well – zero stomach issues! As I mentioned in Saturday’s post, I downgraded from the half to the 10K. Unlike some races, the downgrading process was such an easy, pain-free process. I simply emailed the race director to ask if it was possible, and within the hour, he emailed me [...]

In the hours after last week’s race, I kept recounting all the possible things that could’ve caused my digestive disaster. I realized that although I’ve only had one other incident where I couldn’t finish a run, I may have been having this issue for a while. In fact, I can recall experiencing tummy aches as [...]

This is not the race report I expected to write. I expected to write about how I finished Half Marathon #15. Instead, this race report is about my first DNF (Did Not Finish). All week I had complained about this race because the course was so hilly. And it was. But earlier in the week, [...]

I’ve been all about the yoga lately so I thought I’d write about how I selected Being Yoga, the local studio that I’ve joined. There was no Groupon or Living Social deal that prompted this decision. This decision was made as a direct result of listening to my body. My muscles were tight and shortened. [...]

Life has been so busy as of late and I haven’t blogged as much as I would like to. I always have so many thoughts floating around in my head but just haven’t had the time to put them into words. It’s also been several weeks since I did my weekly recaps so here’s a [...]

The summer of 2001 was not a good one for our family. You see that summer, my Uncle Jerry (my mom’s oldest brother), whose family basically adopted me when I moved to San Francisco, learned he had kidney cancer. At the start of the year he had suffered a stroke, but by mid-summer he had [...]

As I mentioned in my 30 for 30 post, I was recently introduced to TRX training. If you’re not familiar with TRX, here’s a video that explains what it is: I invested in my own suspension training kit, including the doorstop and have been using it at home. I have been pretty good about doing [...]

The other night, I sat on my couch battling my Garmin. The workout that my running coach had prescribed for the next morning had a lot of steps and I was unsure how to program it. I tried scheduling “Repeats” using the “Custom” feature, but it wouldn’t let me pick 1 step to repeat. Instead, [...]