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January 16, 2012 By 29 Comments
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It’s amazing how easy it is to go through life without having enough FUN. I have a lot of fun, usually, but also find myself occasionally wondering what happened to the carefree nature of life. Days when I’m tired, stressed, and “fun” activities become obligation. Tonight was one of those nights. I’d paid to go to a GrubWithUs—hadn’t been to one in a long time and I love them—but it ended up being a little stressful. Work is crazy, I’m flying to San Diego tomorrow night, and I had to get to Pac Heights at a decent [...] Continue Reading…

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    Crystal Springs 11-Mile Trail Race Recap (Or, “The Hardest 5 miles of my life”)

    January 8, 2012 By 27 Comments
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    On Tuesday, my friend texted me and asked if I wanted to do a 22-mile trail run with him on Saturday. I considered it for a minute, checked the website and then decided that 22 might be a bit ambitious for my first trail run but hey, 11 should be easy! I recruited Alyssa, Kabri, and Naomi into coming to play with me (and Aron would be there too).
    Bright and early on Saturday morning, we headed down to Huddart Park in Woodside for the Coastal Trail Runs’ Crystal Springs event.

    Alyssa and I were both a bit nervous about [...] Continue Reading…

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    Race Recap: The New Years Dash 5k/2.87-miler

    January 8, 2012 By 5 Comments
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    Okay, so the blog took a little tiny bit of a backseat this week while I was busy at work and lost sleep over the fire trauma, but I’m back in action. First up: a New Years’ Eve Recap, or, more specifically, the New Years Dash 5K recap. Backstory: this was going to be my first 5K as a runner. Besides one I ran in 2005 that took me 35 minutes. This year, I ran three marathons and zero 5Ks. Basically, I hate running fast and don’t know how to. So I decided I was going to [...] Continue Reading…

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    Too Close to Home: The Masonic Ave Fire

    January 2, 2012 By 27 Comments
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    Last night, nothing happened and everything did. I had just sat down with my laptop around 8PM to do a little productive work on the 1st of the year to get it started off right, after quite the lazy day. Only minutes afterward I heard a woman screaming outside, in a bone-chilling way, and the sirens of police cars. Mind you, I live in a cute house on a hill in San Francisco, this doesn’t usually happen right here. I called my neighbor to see what was going on and that’s when the fire trucks came. Several. The [...] Continue Reading…

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    2011: The Year In Running

    December 31, 2011 By 10 Comments
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    Greetings folks. I planned to do a whole 2011 series this week but frankly life just got in the way. So some of them may be belated, but I did want to do a little recap of my running year. The other, harder-to-quantify stuff can come later. In January I started training for my first marathon. In March I ran my first half-marathon and shocked myself. On May 1st I crossed the finish line of my first marathon in Big Sur and it was one of the greatest moments of my life. [...] Continue Reading…

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    Christmas Actually Is All Around

    December 25, 2011 By 8 Comments
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    As I sit here on Christmas evening, I’ve found myself thinking about what Christmas means to different people. It’s Jesus’s birthday, of course, but the holiday is celebrated in many different ways by people who believe many different things. There’s an overarching “holiday spirit” that infects us, and takes on a variety of forms. I’ve seen Christmas manifest itself in several ways over the last few days.

    Christmas is nighttime Embarcadero runs with friends, followed by fries.

     

    Christmas is a Christmas Eve trail run with mom, a beautiful day with some big hills to boot.

     

    Christmas is cinnamon rolls, cookies, waffles, more [...] Continue Reading…

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