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Pacific Association MUT Grand Prix 2023: it's a new wrap!
We had the final event of our 2023 season a month ago with the Ruth Anderson Memorial Runs and we are opening the 2024 season with Quad Dipsea in 2 weeks, we barely have time to breathe and celebrate....
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Fat Ox 24-hour Nationals: could I be tired yet?
A week has passed since Fat Ox and I already raced the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 10K yesterday, time to keep the blog going with such a heavy regimen! (I'm still waiting for some pictures, I'll add...
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Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 2023: shorter doesn't mean easier!
As I posted on Facebook last night, I'm barely touching ground between all the racing this year and keeping up with the blogging, not to mention my first job of course! But trying hard... So, after...
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Quad Dipsea 2023: not getting easier, especially on tired legs!
Not quite a same-day race report but not too bad, on the following day. And what a special occasion to celebrate with this 40-year anniversary of this other Bay Area ultra running tradition. On the...
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And the PA MUT Oscars should go to... Help: please nominate your nominees!
This message is for my fellow USATF Pacific Association members: your help is much needed in identifying who should be nominated for our MUT (Mountain, Ultra, Trail) 2023 season awards!3...
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Last and 35th ultra of the year: on familiar grounds!
After the 4 years it took my hamstring injury to heal, 2023 has been a much better year, finally! There is still so many muscle fibers to rebuild, quite a hefty challenge with age, in order to regain...
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Sparathlon 2023: γένεση (genesis, part 1 of 4)
At last… A month has passed, then two and now almost three, I’m so torn between the great memories of finishing this beast and the delay in recollecting my thoughts and journey related to this major...
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Kicking 2024 off at Wilder Ranch
I've fallen so behind with my blog, I still have to write the blog post I intended to on January 1... 2023, dang! For 12 years (2007-2018), I was able to hold a weekly pace. With the hamstring tendon...
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PAUSATF 2023 season award banquet: back to exceptional normal!
2022 still had quite some pandemic after state. Our society and world is still healing from the global shock but, for our Mountain, Ultra and Trail Running Grand Prix, things were pretty much back to...
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0 to 60 in... a bad twist!
As someone who likes running for the speed of it, it's really impressive to follow the outstanding progression of one key metric in the automotive industry: the time it takes for a car to reach 60...
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Knee injury imaging and update
50 days have passed since I awarded myself the worst birthday gift, a major running injury at the end of what was meant to be the ultimate training run before the 50K Road Nationals. So, short of...
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Quicksilver 100K 2024: challenging therapy...
I know, I keep saying and reminding myself, this isn't cancer. But I'm still very much struggling. Nobody is of course, I was certainly not meant to be an injured runner either. So much that thinking...
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I'm not Djokovic, but...
This is quite an unexpected connection to my running journey. To be honest, I’m not a big fan of that tennis GOAT. While I played tennis and enjoyed it as a kid, I must prefer the simplicity of...
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Sport struggles: harvesting weeds, says Kipchoge himself!
6 months of struggles since I snapped my knee on my birthday and still no end in sight, I'm bummed. Yet, as much as we focus on celebrated over achievers reaching out podiums and medals at the Olympics...
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Spartathlon 2023: προπαρασκευή (preparation, part 2 of 4)
One year has passed since my good intentions to recount my Spartathlon journey. The 2024 race starts in 2 weeks, here is my chance to still do a same-year race report, at least! I can’t believe I have...
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Spartathlon 2023: αγώνας (the race, part 3 of 4)
The race report, at last! The 2024 edition is going to start in less than 2 weeks, better get this post off my chest. So many bad excuses for such an insane delay: life and work getting in the way,...
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Bois-Guillaume Half Marathon: coming back from the dead...
Almost 11 months have passed since my last race, the Quad Dipsea 2023 ultra. And 8 months since I broke a meniscus. This season has been a disaster. I've resumed jogging in September with the knee pain...
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Quicksilver Trail Half-Marathon: so much better than the gym!
How dare I, comparing a trail race on our Quicksilver running club's turf with a gym! Well, as the title implies, at least I value the event much higher than a gym routine. As the regulars of this blog...
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Still qualifying for Boston: what am I complaining about?
As you might have read in previous posts, I did resume running, training and even racing after a long hiatus due to breaking a meniscus on March 1st. After an arthroscopy on July 1 in Paris, the...
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Fat Ox 24-hour Nationals 2024: building back, many steps at a time!
This was bold: I did run a short ultra training run early January but eased up on a nagging calf injury, ramped up training in February to prep for the 50K Road Nationals in March only to snap and...
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