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Running in Oceania: a tour of Huahine Iti
Second stop of our trip to the French Polynesia: Huahine, another pearl, one of the most authentic islands. 30 minutes from Tahiti by plane, and you can see the famous Bora Bora island far away.Like...
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Running in Oceania: a 60K ultra tour of Moorea
Last stop of our first week in French Polynesia: 4 days on the island of Moorea (also spelled Mo'orea in Tahitian). We flew there from Huahine (~30 minutes, see my post) and got back on Tahiti...
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Madcity USATF 100K Nationals 2019: all this for a patch?
This is Boston weekend and I'm typing this blog from Boston indeed but it's a race report for a race I ran yesterday, go figure! The best advice before running a marathon or ultra marathon is to pace...
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Boston 123rd Marathon 2019: what did you expect?
I ask the question in the title because, on my end, I was really unsure what to expect out of this edition. As I wrote in my last post, last night, I competed in the 100K Road Nationals on Saturday in...
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Napa Valley Half Marathon: much different plan!
Quite some change today! First, we had added our first Trail race in our MUT (Mountain, Ultra, Trail) Pacific Association (PA) Grand Prix. For 25 years, our MUT schedule only included ultra races, from...
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Big Sur Marathon 2019: some pressure for a first
A marathon, a first? For one thing, I ran Boston 2 weeks ago! And Boston was my 26th marathon, not counting the 163 ultra races since 2006 or cumulated 410 ultra marathons when including the training...
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Miwok 100K 2019: sheer pain, not pretty, but...
5 days have passed since my last race, and some good taper, time to get back at it, right...? As a matter of fact, as corky as this statement looks, I felt quite uneasy about confronting this first...
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Quicksilver 100K 2019: what an experience!
experience nounex·​pe·​ri·​ence | \ ik-ˈspir-ē-ən(t)s \Definition of experience1a : direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledgeb : the fact or state of having been...
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Ohlone 50K 2019: what was that?
Oh my, what did they do with my fetish race?! Pouring rain, slippery mud fest, creek crossings, 2 loops, 48F at the start, no wood block trophies, no pilgrimage to Del Valle, a revamped and super fancy...
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PAUSATF LDR Awards Celebration 2018: they love beer!
3 months have passed and I'm only reporting about this award ceremony, I'm surely going to lose my press pass on this one, if not already. I've never studied journalism but I used to at least be more...
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Global Running Day @ SVL: now we are talking! And walking and running...
Eclipsed by local giants like Google, Facebook, Cisco or Intel, it's a little known fact that IBM, a New York-based corporation, has a strong presence in Silicon Valley. Several thousands employees...
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Back from the dead! Says the blog.
Enough, Jean let me and you down since mid June. 10 weeks without activity, that never happened to me before. Since March 2007, Jean took pride of visiting and making me talk to you about his running...
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Ruth Anderson Memorial Run 2019: insane ultra stubbornness
Finally, one real personal running opportunity to blog about, after these 4.5 months since our epic Ohlone 50K. Albeit one I wasn't really looking forward to as these super long break still didn't...
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2020 PA MUT Grand Prix schedule: the cat out of the bag, finally!
Phew, Nakia and I have worked on this 2020 schedule since August, yet we never seem to start soon enough as ultra runners need to schedule their year months in advance!First, I want to give a shout out...
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Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 2019: still in pain for v15.0
It was at that race that I injured the attach of my left quad, a year ago. One year passed and the pain is still there. Granted, it's getting better, meaning less pain, but what a long process. Of...
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Join us for the USATF Pacific Association Oscars this Saturday night, live!
You have until noon Pacific this Tuesday to get your tickets for our 2019 Awards Banquet which, this year, will not only cover LDR (Long Distance Running, that is Cross-Country, Road and Mountain,...
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PAUSATF 2019 Season Awards Banquet: a different show
2008 was my first PA (Pacific Association) USATF (USA Track & Field) LDR (Long Distance Running) Award Banquet. Which I joined to celebrate the first full season I had competed in MUT (Mountain,...
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Mt Umunhum 14K: our first ever MUT Grand Prix Mountain race!
What an opportunity not to miss, our very first Mountain race in our MUT (Mountain, Ultra, Trail) Grand Prix series! For more than 25 years, our MUT Grand Prix was exclusively about Ultra, either on...
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2020 50K Road Nationals: near Caumsett, at Hecksher State Park this time!
2 weeks have passed already, not much of a scoop in the result in the age of instant posting, but better get this race report out this Friday night as tomorrow is... yet another race day and... yet...
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2020 50-mile Trail Nationals: brutal test with a Pioneer Spirit
Less than 2 weeks after the 50K Road Nationals on Long Island and already writing about another National Championship, gasp! Short of being back to serious training with this 16-month hamstring nagging...
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