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Sierra to Sea Day 5- best day ever!!

Well, no, not really ever…. but this was my favorite day of the ride! We started with…. yet another hill…. and it was cold…. I remember because Clay was riding […]

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Sierra to the Sea Day 4

After the long hot ride of day 3 from the Sierra’s across the Sacramento Valley to the foothills, we woke to a nice cool morning…. another beautiful day for a […]

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Sierra to the Sea Day 3

After another good breakfast… Clay and I got our bikes and got ready for day 3 – the LONG day. The ride was another net downhill…. but it was the […]

Cycling

Sierra to the Sea Day 2

I should start by mentioning that the evening after the ride on day 1…. and the following morning…. the start of day 2… it hurt to walk downhill… The combination […]

Cycling

Sierra to the Sea – Day 1

The evening after the half marathon, there was check-in, dinner and an informational meeting for the Sierra to the Sea ride. Clay and I got there, picked up our shirts […]

Running

Rock Tahoe Half Marathon

I have been mostly off the grid the last 9 or 10 days…. but I have been having SOME fun! We were heading to Lake Tahoe for a bike ride…. […]

Cycling

Ojai Valley Century

What do you do the week after a marthon?How about a century ride? If triathletes can do em the same day, I figure I can do them a week apart…. […]

Running

NO BQ, now what do I do?

When I ran Boston this year.…. in some of the worst Boston weather ever… I was secretly not so upset about the weather…. I have a history of doing really […]

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Tour of Long Beach 100K

If you ever want to do a flat 64 mile bike ride… might I recommend the Tour of Long Beach. The course starts by the harbor and heads inland, this […]

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Speed work and downhills

Tuesday was our usual Tuesday night High Desert Runners track work out. It was a very hot evening – 90+ degrees, at least when we started. So I chose a […]

Running

My first DNF….

I think… at least I cannot recall dropping out of a race before…. Let me start at the beginning: I am several weeks out from my Boston Marathon experience. I […]

Cycling

Post Marathon Recovery Bliss

Recovery and Bliss… may sound like an oxymoron. How can a time of soreness, of pictures like the one below, be a time of bliss? btw, the picture looks a lot […]

Running

Boston Extreme, Part 2… Race Day

Race day began with the weather that had been forecast… but Hyland’s had a couple of very nice perks set up to make the day nicer…. To start, we had […]

Atricles/Information

Boston Extreme, once again…. Part 1

The last time I ran the Boston Marathon was in when the temperature hit about 90 degrees… The forecast was SO bad that day that the Boston Athletic Association sent […]

Running

Boston, here I come!

Posts have been few of late…. not much free time for blogging/ social media. Mom had been in and out of the hospital 3 times the last month, and dad […]

Running

2 weeks to Boston – race and long run

Yesterday at 7:30 a.m. I was still sitting on the Norwegian Sun cruise ship in San Pedro. My bags were packed and my wife and I were ready to […]

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Sierra to Sea Day 5- best day ever!!

Sierra to the Sea Day 4

Sierra to the Sea Day 3

Sierra to the Sea Day 2

Sierra to the Sea – Day 1

Rock Tahoe Half Marathon

Ojai Valley Century

NO BQ, now what do I do?

Tour of Long Beach 100K

Speed work and downhills

My first DNF….

Post Marathon Recovery Bliss

Boston Extreme, Part 2… Race Day

Boston Extreme, once again…. Part 1

Boston, here I come!

2 weeks to Boston – race and long run