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Changan Ford 100K: will 7 50Ks do?
Here you are, as some of you must have wondered what I was preparing for with the high volume training right after my TDS race, announcing my next big goal... Typically, I end the season with a few...
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Running in Singapore: MacRitchie Reservoir Trail, and Tree Top!
Time flies, it has been 13 years since my last trip to Singapore! I had visited our ILOG subsidiary a handful of times between 1991 and 2005, but not since we got acquired by IBM in 2008. Back then, I...
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Running in Singapore: Little India's Farrer Park
If you stay in Singapore's Little India, for instance at the newly opened and reasonably priced Hilton Garden Inn, and want to neither run on the treadmill (they have 3 great ones, but I'm still so...
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Running in Nashville: Stones Ridge Greenway, near BNA
So long for tapering, I can't resist trying out trails when visiting new places, and what a trail Stones Ridge Greenway is, near the BNA airport, so close to Nashville! A great opportunity to log a few...
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Running in Nashville: Cumberland riverfronts
Not, it's not a typo, I really mean the plural of riverfront. Well, it's trivial that every river has two fronts or they would be lake or sea ocean... And Nashville isn't the only city to have built a...
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Changan Ford 100K preview: I've been containerized!
While most of you are working your first job, this week is all about my second job for me. Well, not spending the whole week running as a matter of fact, because it already took me 2 days to get here...
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Changan Ford 100K: 2 minutes too fast!
What a bizarre title, which runner would complain of being 2 minutes too fast... Well, read on!I felt so prepared after an intense training through September (Will 7 50Ks do?), I had a big goal and...
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2019 Pacific Association MUT Grand Prix: good old + some very new stuff =...
Disclaimer: this post is an open letter aimed at the current and potential participants of our Pacific Association MUT Grand Prix. But everyone is welcome to read to understand what this competition is...
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Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 2016: 10 consecutive ones = 100K!
Et voilà , 2009-2018, my 10th consecutive Turkey Trot is in the books, we can certainly talk about a Thanksgiving tradition, and a great series out of the 14 years this event has existed! But what a...
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Ultra Running as a team sport? Yes it can!
This is rather counter-intuitive: by essence, except for some crewing and pacing at some ultra races, ultra running is very much an individual sport where each participant battles physical and mental...
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PA MUT 2018 yearly report: your opportunity to speak up!
I'm 2 weeks in my yearly running break and I can't believe the time freed up by not running (I spend an average of 8 hours/week throughout the year) is all consumed by working harder, spending even...
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One Day in Auburn 2019: only 6 hours, thankfully!
One month without blogging, you bet something went wrong in December, thanks for checking! ;-) I was way too busy to blog or brag about it anyway. Besides, I didn't exactly know what was going on in...
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Redding Marathon 2019: thrilled to have dared to try!
It's a long title for a story which took even longer for me to recount: I started this blog on a flight on Monday, hoping for a next day race report, but here we are, a week later...If you read my last...
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Still painful, yet so good to be back!
If you can tell from the unusual irregular frequency of my posts, I've been busy, and bothered by this nagging injury since the Turkey Trot 10K last November. I imagine many of you wonder how serious...
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Jackpot 100-mile Road Nationals 2019: bet big, run fast!
Jackpot is quite an ultra running festival! Happening in Henderson, Nevada, in the suburb of Las Vegas, aka Sin City, it has events covering the whole running sport: a few timed events (48-hour,...
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Running in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 40 miles off the beaten tourist trails
A new country, a new capital, a new post in my "Running in..." series, new trails, new experiences, all this on my feet, that's a lot to be grateful for!Now, over the weekend I could spend in Kuala...
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Caumsett 50K Road Nationals 2019: youngster's dreams
I have to confess, I do have a problem, I seem to have found the elixir against aging! No kidding, these 5-year deep age groups within USATF competitions keep me on my toes! Every 5 years, you have the...
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My 50K therapy: is that even healthy?
As we often say about ultra running: this is a big experiment of... one! There are so many parameters involved when running distances beyond the marathon, it's impossible to set rules working for...
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Back to the top, finally: of Black Mountain that is, but still
Wow, I can't believe it has been 8 months since I ran to the top of Black Mountain. July 28 was the last time, that's from my running log (I don't have that powerful detailed memory...). It wasn't the...
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Running in Oceania: Tahiti, Papeete to Point Venus
Hi from Tahiti, the first island we visited this week out of the 118 which form the French Polynesia. Volcanic formations scattered over 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers)!French Polynesia is part of...
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