The Tao of Me

My bedtime was 15 minutes ago, but I couldn’t let the day end without a quick post to remember my 3rd Raceversary (I have no idea how to spell it, but you know what I’m talking about…). It was exactly 3 years ago today that I ran my very first race – the Big Sur [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After a quick flight home from Vancouver, I hopped on another flight and headed out to New York for a self-imposed Spring Break, hence the lack of posts for the past week. Since not much is going on these days, I’m going to take the next week and write “catch-up” posts of all the things [...]

I volunteered at last year’s first annual Oakland Running Festival. It was my first time volunteering at a race, as well as the first time I got to see winners cross the Finish Line. As I handed out mylar blankets at the Finish Line, I heard runner after runner yell, “I hella heart Oakland!” in [...]

This is my 17th year of Spring Training ball (give or take a couple of years) and my second year of adding a second Spring Training trip to the desert. I justify the second trip by running a race – the Run for Ryan House Half-Marathon. Running and baseball – could there be a more [...]

I’m too lazy to write a proper report, so here’s what happened in list style: 1. The Bay Area has been having monsoon-like rain for days and I obsessively checked my Weather.com app for the race day forecast. It changed every few hours. 2. After work on Friday I went to Lululemon to get a [...]

When I woke up on race morning, the last very last thing that I wanted to do was to run a race. For once I had slept up to my alarm and I wanted nothing more than to continue sleeping. If I hadn’t made plans to meet up with friends who were also doing the [...]