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Running in Austin, Texas: Town Lake & Barton Creek
I used to travel to Austin for work, visiting IBM. Then visiting family, Max, when he was working at IBM Design in Austin. Since we don't travel for work much more, and Max moved to another career...
View ArticleRuth Anderson Memorial: speed (no bump) ahead!
If you happen to be in the San Francisco area this Saturday morning, I invite you to come to Lake Merced. Not to race as the race finally filled last week but to potentially run on the course which...
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Ruth Anderson 2022 with purpose: historical edition in Ruth's memory!
Ruth left us in 2016 so we'll never know her feelings about this year's edition. Reading about her though in this great piece from Davy Crockett, she was so much of a game changer for putting women...
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2022 PA MUT Grand Prix: it's a wrap!
Still two months in the calendar year and, as opposed to Europe, we haven't changed to Daylight Saving Time yet, but our MUT (Mountain, Ultra, Trail) Grand Prix has closed with our Ruth Anderson race 3...
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2023 PA MUT Grand Prix: back to the old normal?
Et voilà, with the 2022 MUT Grand Prix over after the Ruth Anderson Memorial Runs (see the wrap-up), 3 weeks ago, and the start of the registrations for 2023 ultra races, it's time to confirm the 2023...
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CTR's Lake Chabot 50K: come back, continued
Our local Mountain, Ultra, Trail Grand Prix is over for 2022 but it doesn't mean we can't still have fun outside this circuit. As a matter of fact, quite a few local runners enjoyed a long run at Rio...
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Turkey Trot 2022: so good to get back in the flock
For many, this appeared to be a come back after a 3-year hiatus. But, technically, our Silicon Valley Turkey Trot survived the pandemic and ran virtual events in the meantime, that is in 2020 and 2021....
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Quad Dipsea 2022: perfect conditions for a come back!
As I mentioned in my Turkey Trot race report on Friday night, the good side of our persisting drought calamity is we get perfect conditions to play in our backyards. I've run wet editions, it's not...
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Running in Barcelona: Barça's Spotify Camp stadium
I'm so behind, I stil have posts to write about pre-pandemic runs! That one is just a month late though. A rare and most welcome opportunity to visit a client in Europe, in Barcelona Spain. Last time I...
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Running in Barcelona: la diagonal y las playas
After my laps around Barça's Spotify Camp stadium on Monday, I went on an urban run through the city, close to what I did in 2018 except for the infamous commercial harbor that I had kept such a bad...
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Running in Barcelona: Carretera de les Aigües, or Barcelona's balcony
This run on Thursday night was more interesting than the previous ones, either around Barça's stadium, or on Diagonal Avenue. First, because that wasn't at all what I was expecting and I ended up...
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Running in Guatemala: pick the right zones in Guatemala City
I enjoyed a short vacation in Guatemala last week, what a destination! It was only for a week so I don't pretend to provide the best running advice but, one theme omnipresent in the book guides I read...
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Running in Guatemala: along lake Atitlán, a short ultra from Santa Cruz to...
For our second day in Guatemala, we didn't have a tour setup, only 2 nights booked in Santa Cruz La Laguna on the North shore of the famous Lake Atitlán. We stayed at an amazing place, Isla Verde...
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Running in Guatemala: one lap around the top of the Acatenango crater, at...
After the previous two risky runs on my own (Guatemala City and San Pedro), that one was safe, crime-wise, as we joined an organized hike with a 30+ group led by OX Expeditions and four of their...
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CTR's SF New Year's One Day 12-hour: cry me an atmospheric river...
"Now you say you're lonelyYou cry the whole night thoroughWell, you can cry me a river, cry me a riverI cried a river over you"wrote Arthur Hamilton in 1953, such a famous song now (and I really like...
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When did you start running?
Don't you get this question from time to time: "and so, when did you start running?" Every time, I have a bit of an hesitation. Unless you were born with a special condition, every kid has run at some...
View Article2022 PA MUT Runners of the Year: and the nominees are...
We have three special awards at the end of each season: the Female and Male Runner of the Year (RoY) and the Volunteer of the Year. Like the Oscars, there is always some good suspense, given the...
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2022 Pacific Association recognition awards banquet: and the winners are...
We had our yearly USATF Pacific Association recognition banquet last night, time to reveal who won the coveted MUT (Mountain, Ultra, Trail) recognitions of the year, after I shared the nominees on...
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Jed Smith 50K 2023: the long but steady road back to speed
When I first ran Jed Smith in 2009, it was a low key trail race at a ranch. In the spirit of Jedediah Smith who spent his life exploring the Rockies in the 19th century. What an evolution the event...
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White Black Mountain: historical snow fall!
I like when there is something very special about my running, that provides an opportunity to get back to my blog for the sake of documenting memories for the future. After more than 15 years of...
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