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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I often get laughed at because I grew up in Hawai’i yet had to take adult swim lessons. I went to the beach a lot as a kid, but never learned the proper strokes or how to properly breathe. Three summers ago I took 6 weeks of adult swim lessons through the local Parks and [...]

Yesterday I had a 1500-yard swim on my schedule. It’s not a distance that is particularly challenging for me. And I really do love to swim. But for the life of me, I could not get out of bed in time to get to the pool. I blamed the time change. {Side note: I prefer [...]