The Tao of Me

Last week I joined DSE Runners, a San Francisco-based running group. They hold very inexpensive (like $3), mostly short-distanced races around the City almost every weekend. I was scheduled to run 7-miles this weekend and had originally planned to run in the Golden Gate Park 10K that they held today. That is until Courtney tweeted [...]

Summary Somewhere along the course I hurt my knee. Looking back, it might have been at the second relay handoff which I think was somewhere along the halfway point. There were so many people crossing the course and I stepped on one of those road dividers. Or it could have been when the dog knocked [...]

Thanksgiving Day is too hectic for me to participate in a Turkey Trot, which makes the timing of the Run Wild For A Child race perfect – at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It’s a 5/10K local race in Golden Gate Park that benefits the San Francisco Fire Department Toy Drive. I signed [...]

I picked up Audrey a little before 5:30 am and we headed up to the City. On the drive up, I commented to her that there was quite a bit of traffic on the freeway for that early on a Sunday morning. I mean, I knew a lot of people ran Nike, but I expected [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

This weekend 2 favorites of mine converged – running and baseball = The Giant Race. Here’s how the weekend went. Friday ART I visited my chiro for an ART session. If you’ve ever had an ART session, you know that they are very intense, but fairy short, usually 15 minutes or so. This particular session [...]

I have the personal belief that half-marathon race reports should only be half as long as full marathon race reports well, because you only ran half the distance, right? That being said, I have a lot to say about SFM so this one is going to be a little longer than it should. Last year [...]

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 [...]

Pre-Race Stuff I registered back in December and over the past 4 months, the race organizers did a great job of sharing updates through emails, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. I prefer races that keep participants engaged – it keeps me energized and excited for the event. Their web site was also freshly updated with important [...]