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50 miles for lunch: working hard on my training volume!
Last week I missed the 3rd event of our Mountain, Ultra Trail running Grand Prix season, the FOURmidable 50K. I used to run almost every races, using some as strong training opportunities. But it takes...
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Jackpot 100-mile Nationals: it's long to be back
I know, the actual saying would rather be: it's good to be back! Who wants the road back home to be long, really? Actually, there was a bit of be back flavor this week as I flew to Austin for a...
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Heckscher Park 50K Road Nationals: back on forward drive!
A few months ago, I was dreaming and hoping to run this championship double again. This year wasn’t ideal though as Jackpot (100-mile Road Nationals) had moved from the classic mid-February date to...
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Knickerbocker Canyon 35K: running can be the easy part...
Finally, a same-day race report, phew! It has been a long time since I was able to do it, I'm glad to have the opportunity to get back to this sane practice. Oh wait, what about a same-day NO race...
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Black Mountain 50K: cry me many rivers!
If only we could find a way to channel all the atmospheric rivers California has received these past 3 months, underground, into the aquifer/phreatic zone which we depleted with our intensive...
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CTR's Redwood 50K: perfect training playground!
April Fools' Day... Like Russia taking over the leadership of the UN Security Council for the month, really not funny since that's true, albeit unbelievable given the war situation and Ukraine...
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Cupertino's Big Bunny Fun Run 5K: in and out
I was really excited by the prospect of running this local race again, literally one block from my house, can't get any closer! I've had a good run at that event, even winning it at least once: 16:54...
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Is orienteering a sport?
You bet, it even has World Championships and an official site for the US, which states:Orienteering is the sport of navigation, using a highly detailed map. Whether you’re an experienced hiker,...
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ITR's Woodside (non) Crossover Half: back to Huddart Park at last!
January 15 was our rendez-vous at Huddart Park in Woodside, for the Coastal Trail Runs (CTR)'s Crystal Spring trail half marathon. It was the first race of our USATF Pacific Association MUT Grand Prix...
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Quicksilver 100K 2023: was it hot, really?
2 weeks have passed, let’s see what I can still capture as souvenirs for the sake of making up for what my memory might miss in a few years. Or for some historians interested in some recount of this...
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Running in Klamath Falls, Oregon - Part 1: A Canal
A Canal not as in a canal but Canal "A", also known as Main Canal within the amazing water reclamation project of Southern Oregon and Northern California which gives life to California's prominent...
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SF One Day 12-hour: still so much work
This title refers to the continuous post-injury journey. Interesting how time flies: for the 4 years my hamstring attach bothered me (Nov 2018-2022), I was wondering if running was over. Now that the...
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Running in Bruxelles: or all around on the Promenade Verte
I like seeing green when looking for a running opportunity while I visit a city. Like the two Coulées Vertes in Paris. It wasn't my first time in Brussels but previous visits dated my time working in...
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Skyline 50K 2023: some serious hill training
Ahh, more than 10 days have passed already, better get this one out of the door before the next race, tomorrow! Ironically, I had written most of it on race day, or evening at least, but was missing...
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Tamalpa Headlands 50K 2023: some good fire back!
Another report I had mostly written by Sunday evening but then interrupted by my two main jobs, IBM and training for Spartathlon. I already ran 242 miles since that race, including 5 50K training runs...
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If not faster, then further: I had never ran so much!
I have to admit, despite 18 years of ultra trail running, I have still no all the clues about what I am doing! As the saying goes, ultra running is a barely scientific experiment of n = 1 (even when...
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Quicksilver Half Marathon 2023: pictures from the aid station, and New Almaden
For a big change and an opportunity to give back to my Quicksilver Club and our local trail community, I didn't race today! I volunteered to help out at the Prospect aid station which half marathon...
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200-race milestone on UltraSignup: quite off actually!
I've mixed feelings about UltraSignup providing us so many results in a single place: while it's such a convenient feature, I know some people feel that their own results have been stollen from them....
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Ruth Anderson 2023: was I tired yet?
I know, I know, I should be writing about Spartathlon, but this is such a daunting task which is going to take a few more weeks, not to mention pictures from that Greek épopée are still coming in/up on...
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Last weekend, I went back to the track, for a big change. With the focus on Spartathlon all year, I logged so many slow miles, both while training or racing. As most of you, frequent readers, know,...
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