The Tao of Me

It’s been 2 weeks since I ran the Wahine Half-Marathon in Honolulu. It wasn’t an “A” race, or even a “B” race; it was a more a “C” race, “C” being for “convenience.” My cousin Becki, who lives on O’ahu, recently started running and signed up for this race a long time ago. I didn’t [...]

Here’s a little PSA Tip for you: Your average mattress is only good for 5-7 years. Yeah, I had no idea either and my mattress is almost 14 years old. FOURTEEN! I should have gone through 2 or 3 mattresses by now, which probably explains why, for the past several months I’ve been waking up [...]

I’ve fallen a bit behind on my logging my Weekly Workouts, so here’s a short recap of Weeks 12 and 13 and then a regular recap of Week 14. Week 12: March 19-25 Mon, 3/19: 45-min on the Bike Trainer doing 9 5-minute intervals Tues, 3/20: 1-hr Run of Intervals (6.37 miles) + 1-hr Yin [...]

“There’s nothing like going to bed listening to the rain that you’ll be running 13.1 miles in tomorrow.” Those were my thoughts before going to bed the night before the Oakland Running Festival (ORF). The Bay Area had been drenched with rain that day and it was also forecasted for race morning. But as awful [...]

Last night I returned from a week’s vacation in Hawai’i. It was all that you imagine it would be and more. And was probably one of the best vacation’s I’ve ever had, not only for the obvious reasons but also for a bunch of other sentimental ones as well. Most importantly, I got to visit [...]

Among the many gifts that running has given me is a great big circle of friends. Our little Bay Area group is made up of some amazing people. These friends are a constant source of motivation – they teach, uplift and motivate me. Last night, we all trekked to the City from the South Bay, [...]

March is National Nutrition Month, which is fitting since I’ve recently learned some significant things about my eating habits that I’ve been trying to work on. At the end of February I felt like I was doing a lot of emotional eating and reached out to Danielle, my nutritionist for some advice on how to [...]

If I were to summarize this week in 2 words would be “zero motivation.” Every single day was a struggle to muster up the energy to do anything. The week started off challenging with the time change, then just went downhill from there. Not the best thing 2 weeks before a Half Marathon and 10 [...]