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Pacific Association 2021 Awards Ceremony: just 10 minutes in outstanding...
After a 2-year COVID hiatus cancelling the 2021 edition, we were back to celebrate achievements of our USATF Pacific Association members, phew! From runners to race walkers and Track & Field...
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Jackpot 100-mile Road Nationals 2022: running for that patch
My wife has always had issues making her students understand the motivation of ultra runners. Especially when it comes to the prizes we get even when we make the podium. Getting a mug for winning a...
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Back to Black Mountain, again: carried by the Ukrainians' spirit and their...
Last week I finally pulled myself up to Black Mountain again, phew! 2002 marked the first time I dared to explore our local little summit, a fate for me back then when I was carefully testing the...
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Running in Oceania: Tahiti's Belt Road (Route de Ceinture)
Thrilled to be able to continue my "Running in Oceania" series with a new trip to the French Polynesia last week, 3 years after our first visit to celebrate our 30th anniversary then. With the pandemic...
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Running in Oceania: you won't get lost on Tikehau!
While the whole atoll is an oval of 17 by 12 miles, the main island where the airport is and we stayed on is less than 5 kilometer long, and with only one paved road so you won't get lost there! As a...
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Running in Oceania: you gotta be surfing in Rangiroa!
How dare I, to include a blog post in my Running in Oceania series about an atoll I didn't run on! First, I have to admit I still had issues acclimating to the tropical heat even after 4 nights in...
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Lake Folsom Trail Half Marathon: great to get back to some speed
I still have the last of four posts on our last trip to French Polynesia to complete and I have scribbled on a memory card an account of last week's 100K Nationals in Madison on my flight back from...
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Running in Oceania: 2 runs on Fakarava to catch and wrap up!
To conclude this mini series with the final of 4 stops during this new round in French Polynesia to discover the Tuamutus (Tahiti, Tikehau, Rangiroa), I'll admit these posts don't provide so many...
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MadCity 100K Road Nationals 2022: I'm back and... hungry!
Oh my, getting on 3.5 years since I fissured a hamstring tendon and damaged the attach on the pelvis, just because I slipped about one inch on a wet crosswalk during a 10K, it has been so long... While...
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Quicksilver 100K 2022: first an ode to the volunteers
I have been blogging for 15 years and, all this time, in race reports, I've mostly thanked the volunteers in a generic manner at the end of my posts. For one thing, carrying Ultimate Direction bottles...
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An inspiring evening with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, POST and Dr. Robin Wall...
For a change, not a race or run report, yet a post which has a lot to do with running. Those who follow my blog regularly might remember my support and high consideration of POST. POST stands for...
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Running in Jacksonville, Florida: a few miles along the St Johns River
The other week I flew all across the country just for a one-day customer briefing. It was so short that I can't pretend I've seen much of Jacksonville. I landed at 11:30 pm the night before the meeting...
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Running in Saint-Tropez: road to the West, trail to the East
If you are visiting the famous Saint-Tropez and want to escape the jet set flavor around the harbor (assuming you didn't come for that exact purpose, that is... ;-) ), you can run or walk along the...
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Coastal Trail Runs San Francisco One (Half) Day 2022: back to the good mill!
As I start writing this post a week has passed, I keep feeling bad about being so behind in blogging compared to my original weekly pace which I kept from 2007 to 2018. Another victim of running injury...
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A short ultra for breakfast. And a Stevens Creek Striders promo.
I so used to run (short) ultras for breakfast a lot, I mean for training, early on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Including the real ultra races, I averaged 33 ultra runs a year for 11 years in a row,...
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Skyline 50K 2022: the come-back continues
With this title, I'm not actually referring that this was my 14th run of this iconic race in the Bay Area. I'm so grateful to Adam, Race Director and Scena Performance owner, for keeping this tradition...
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Headlands Hundred 2022: back at the big game with guts and glutes!
Ultra trail running and 100-miles in particular are great sources of stories. We all know some people have the guts to turn them into successful books, and even talent to embellish these stories to...
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Burning 50K on Stevens Creek Striders' Trail Half course
Let me start with an apology... No, not to Dean after my rant in last post, but to the readers of my post in our Pacific Association USATF Mountain, Ultra, Trail Grand Prix group on FaceBook. Indeed, 2...
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Stevens Creek Striders Reservoir Trail Half 2022: shorter and faster!
Since I started blogging in March 2007, 1 year into my ultra running journey, I set my mind on one mission: if I couldn't run faster since I had passed the theoretical athletic peak typically around 30...
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Post #700: the ultra journey must go on!
I was already one year into my ultra running journey when I jumped on the blogging bandwagon, a trend which many have left since for other micro post social platforms. 15.5 years, this is another form...
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