The Tao of Me

A year ago, Nov 9, 2008, I ran my very first race – the Big Sur Half Marathon. As I revisit the blog posts I wrote about the day before the race, and my race report, I realize how much I’ve learned about running over the past year. Although I had been casually running for [...]

race day finally arrived. my cheering crew all the way from columbus, oh: we drove down to monterey on saturday morning and checked into the portola hotel, which was right where the race was going to start/end. that evening, we met up with veronica and her friends for dinner at tarky’s roadhouse. i had been [...]

i’m packing up and heading to monterey in just a few hours. at 7 am tomorrow i’ll be running the big sur half marathon – 13.1 miles. this is the ultra burn playlist i’ll be listening to: * poison – bell biv devoe* pump it – by black eyed peas* living on a prayer – [...]

So its official. After years of saying I want to run a half-marathon, I finally signed up for one. Paid the non-refundable fee. No backing out now. I chose to do the Big Sur Half Marathon in Monterey on November 9th. http://www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org I contemplated doing the US Half Marathon that goes through the City, but [...]